Shared sorrow expressed on Lake Highlands Automotive sign
Not here today to debate the nuances of football law or the definition of karma, for that matter (though if one more person designates the complete catch call reversal in Sunday’s Cowboys game that, I might lay a Darth Vader “noooooo” on them).
No, just here to share a photo of the sign outside Lake Highlands Automotive.
Owner Reg Baker’s boards, positioned over the front door of the shop — which opened in 1989 at Audelia/Royal — are famous around here for their regular witty and/or thought-provoking messages.
Posted Monday, these five little words summed up the collective dashed dreams, incredulousness and hurt of a city struggling with not only the frustration of loss and the end of a hard-fought and emotionally exhausting season, but also the controversial and fateful referee decision that potentially cost the Dallas Cowboys advancement to the third round of the playoffs, something for which many of us have desperately yearned since the mid-1990s:
YES THAT WAS A CATCH
