And on the first day of NFL legal tampering on Monday the Dallas Cowboys and an admittedly desperate-to-win owner Jerry Jones made the splash move of signing former Los Angeles Rams tight end Cody McElroy to a futures contract.
Championship.
Some days the jokes write themselves.
The Cowboys probably could have waited to announce the signing of McElroy, a former baseball prospect for Atlanta Braves, who played no snaps for the Rams last season. Nobody would have been checking for it.
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It now stands as a backdrop in Dallas to the free agent flurry that is going on around the NFL and most notably in NFC East, where the Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Giants have already made moves to improve their teams.