The Name Game

I told you it was early in the day when I last posted, as The Cowboys did do something notable and signed free agent LB Carlos Polk, who spent his career as a San Diego Charger but has barely completed a whole season due to various injuries. He is a special teams... umm... specialist, and will hopefully play a big role in solving some of Dallas' special team woes. He will fill the empty spot in the roster left by Sam Hurd being placed on I.R.

The signing of Roy Williams and now Polk, has also brought to my attention a very interesting but insignificant bit of trivial fact. The Cowboys this year have a multitude of players with the same or similar names (thankfully they have numbers on their jerseys, or this would be one confusing organization.)

Let's see, they have Leonard Davis and Keith Davis... Brad Johnson and Tank Johnson... Felix Jones, Adam Jones (pending,) and Jerry Jones... Carlos Polk and Nick Folk... Wade Phillips and Wade Wilson and of course, Roy Williams and well, Roy Williams, and that doesn't include all of the family members of Jerry Jones, Wade Phillips and Jason Garret that work for this team.

Does this mean anything? No, just thought it was funny.

I'm guessing there won't be too much more news for the day except Thursday's practice, which I don't post about on here anyway, so I'll try to post a Dallas/St. Louis Preview later, but if I don't get around to it, I'll see you at the Recap. PEACE

UPDATE:

Another pointless observation that proves I have too much time on my hands are the interesting names of the NFL teams themselves. There are 6 teams that begin with "B", there are 5 that begin with "C", there are 4 "R's", 3 "S's" and "P's" and 2 "J's", "F's", & "T's". There's also a "D", "G", "E", "L" and a "V", but really, who cares about them.

14 teams are named after animals, 12 teams are named after certain groups, gangs or races of people throughout history, 1 is named after the team's first coach and GM, 1 is named after a group of mythical humongous people, 1 is named after an airplane, 1 is named after its' city's main export, 1 is named after the packing company that first sponsored them and as for The Chargers, I have no clue where they got that name.