Football News Is Breaking All Over the Place: Tommy Bowden Fired; Romo Out

There’s nothing like some super exciting breaking news to fuel the cycle on a sluggish Monday. First up, the news out of Clemson is that Tommy Bowden has been fired. This means he’s gone from “mostly dead,” as he was on Friday, to “Al Davis dead” today, as you can see on our updated Tommy Bowden Dead Index chart below:
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↵↵There are no details yet of how the firing went down, but it probably was similar to the manner in which Spencer described it in The Alphabetical yesterday:↵

↵↵⇥Clemson fans, you’re riding along with Tommy Bowden in a car. You’re Chris Farley; Tommy Bowden’s David Spade in the passenger seat. You sing “Eres Tu” together -- in Spanish! Just like in the movie. It’s a moment, it really is. You’ve had such good times together. Then, in a scene not included in the movie, you shove Tommy Bowden out of the car while it’s moving at 70 mph, leaving him rolling and bouncing off the pavement in the dark, lonely middle of nowhere. Coming soon to a theater near you!↵↵Taking over for Bowden is Dabo Swinney. ↵↵The second bit of news is from the professional version of football, where we’ve learned that Tony Romo will be out four weeks with a broken pinkie on his throwing hand. The loss hurts extra bad for the Cowboys because a) Brad Johnson is their back-up, b) this means Romo will almost certainly be out for the team’s HUGE game at the Giants in three weeks, and could also miss their game at Washington in five weeks. ↵

↵↵When you combine the way Dallas has played the last three games with this Romo injury, it would appear as if the Cowboys are on a downhill trajectory. ↵

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↵↵⇥“They just told us. It’s what he deserved.”↵↵Snap. I’m sure Harper’s anger has nothing to do with Bowden benching him following Clemson’s loss on Thursday night.↵