In an e-mail distributed by the Dallas Cowboys to various media types (and Internet hacks who have infiltrated the listserve), the team’s P.R. department explained club policy regarding online content.

The initial focal point of the policy is the league-wide policy severely limiting the amount of audio and/or video of interviews, press conferences, and team practices that may be posted on a web site.  The rule was widely criticized in 2007, and it has been expanded from 45 seconds to 90 seconds per day.  (In a prior version of this item, we hadn’t realized that the rule had expanded from 45 seconds to 90 seconds.)

There was a new twist at the bottom of the e-mail.  Or, alternatively, a twist of which we weren’t previously aware.

“While a game is in progress, any forms of accounts of the game must be sufficiently time-delayed and limited in amount (e.g., score updates with detail given only in quarterly game updates, fewer than 10 photographs during the game) so that the Accredited Organization’s game coverage cannot be used as a substitute for, or otherwise approximate, authorized play-by-play accounts.”

In other words, no live blogging from the press box.

We’re in the process of determining whether this is a Cowboys-only policy, or whether it’s a league-wide rule.

And, more importantly, whether it also applies to boxers-and-KISS-T-shirt-wearing basement-dwellers who are watching the games on television.