Cliff Claven wants to know.....Will You Marry Me?

On the eve of my wedding anniversary-----I recall proposing to Carol-----and I don’t recall ever considering the use of the U.S. Postal Service in the process..

I found this story….well reported all over the national media this week….to be very entertaining.

Roy Williams gets his ring back

by Michael David Smith--AP

The strange story of Roy Williams and the $76,600 engagement ring has come to an end.

Williams, the Dallas Cowboys receiver who sued his ex-girlfriend to try to get back the engagement ring that he mailed her on Valentine’s Day, got the ring back.

Brooke Daniels, the former Miss Texas USA who dated Williams for a year, returned the ring yesterday, her mom told TMZ.  The hand-off of the ring was overseen by Williams’ lawyer.

Although questions remain — namely, what the hell was Williams thinking sending an engagement ring in the mail? — the issue appears to be over.  But Williams had better be ready for a whole lot of trash talk about it this season.

I remember once asking a cheerleader in eighth grade if she would like to wear my letter jacket on the sidelines while I played in the game. I remember her response to this day.

“It could be the coldest day in Nome, Alaska…..and I wouldn’t wear your jacket.”

Ouch. That whole incident fundamentally changed the way I approached women for years afterwards. After that ego-crushing encounter, I utilized a “scout” system in order to facilitate dates. I’d send a friend to talk to my unsuspecting victim and sometime in the conversation have the buddy ask: “So, Mike would like to ask you out…….but he’d like to know what you would say first?” It worked in that I never got the Nome, Alaska line again…it didn’t work in the sense that many women likely found the scout system to be gutless.

So…what was going through Roy William’s head in this incident? Well, in my view it was sort of like watching a beautifully thrown Tony Romo pass rocket through Williams’ hands and land with a thud on the turf at Cowboy Stadium. He didn’t even use a scout-----he relied on Cliff Claven to deliver the proposal.

And with the ring-----it is being reported-----he also included $5,000 for the beauty queen to get some dental work. Holey Moley….that’s like saying----“Hey Honey….I want to marry you….and oh, by the way….get those choppers fixed….here’s some money.”

Oh, Roy, we need to talk, dude.

Did you ever take an interpersonal relationship class at UT?

Why didn’t you just throw in some cash for liposuction while you were at it?

Roy is lucky that Miss Texas’ Dad decided to intervene.

Otherwise, this whole sorry saga would have become a trial which would have been much more difficult than being covered by the secondary of the Washington Redskins.

A trial would have meant coverage by a much scarier foe.

Nancy Grace.