Cowboys-Redskins -- Don't miss a minute...
The Cowyboys meet the Redskins in this Monday Night Football matchup, and, believe it or not, it's a game you won't want to miss. Here's why.
Dallas vs. Washington. Cowboys vs. Redskins. Tom Landry. George Allen. Roger Staubach. Billy Kilmer. Tony Dorsett. Darrell Green. Michael Irvin. Art Monk. Too Tall Jones. Dexter Manley. Jimmy Johnson. Joe Gibbs. Tony Banks. Anthony Wright.
Whoa. Tony who? Anthony Wright? What in the name of Gary Hogeboom is going on here?
All around the country this week, the sports world has been abuzz. Baseball playoffs? Nah, wake me when the Series starts.
Some new guy named Jordan playing for the Wizards? The only MJ I know plays for Chicago.
The importance of sports in our society has been taken down a few notches over the past month. Sports is now seen for what it is, a diversion from reality. You want reality TV?? Check CNN. You want an escape, some pure unadultrated fun, some Must See TV? Then do what you do every Monday Night, tune in the NFL's version of Survivor -- Dallas vs. Washington. Last one off the island pays the bill.
The Cowboys and Redskins rivalry is among the most heated, history-filled rivalries in all of sports. Who can forget the Monday night classic images of Kenny Houston stuffing Walt Garrison at the goal line on the last play of the game in 1973, preserving a 14-7 Washington win.
I personally will never forget Joe Theismann holding the football aloft as he took an intentional safety in the 1978 game, in which the Redskins defeated my beloved Cowboys by a 9-5 score. Of course, the Cowboys would get their revenge on Theismann in the 1985 Monday Night opening game, picking off six of his passes in a 41-14 Cowboy rout that ended with the Dallas crowd serenading Theismann with "Happy Birthday."
This will be the 12th meeting of these teams on Monday Night Football, and according to ABC Sports, seven of the previous eleven games have been decided by a touchdown or less.
However, the howling from the media this week calling this the "Loser Bowl" is unwarranted. The Cowboys, America's Team, has fallen on hard times. The salary cap has ravaged this team to a mere shell of its former self. In fact, fully one-third of Dallas' salary cap this season is taken by players no longer with the squad, the ghosts of Aikman, Irvin, and Johnston, among others still casting a shadow.
The Cowboys have drafted horribly since the departure of Jimmy Johnson. The owner and GM, Jerry Jones, still insisted at the beginning of the season that Dallas had the talent to win 10 games. He obviously must have been still suffering from the after effects of his widely-known, but never publicly-acknowledged, plastic surgery, which has left Jerry looking like one of the Jacksons.
The Redskins, under frustrated fantasy football owner Dan Snyder, tried to "Steinbrenner" his way to a Super Bowl last season, with horrific results.
Attention Vegas, the over/under on camera shots to the respective skyboxes Monday night will be 1,113.
This once proud rivalry has now sunken to the level that both teams starting quarterbacks COMBINED passing rating is less than that of Kurt Warner of the Rams.
Look it up, Anthony Wright (62.3) and Tony Banks (43.8) come up short of RoboWarner (115.0).
Banks, who is to quarterbacking what Ishtar is to classic movies, was cut by Dallas this summer. If you factor in Quincy Carter's below anemic rating of 14.3, you have the makings of scores only the Deltas in "Animal House" could love.
All that said, in the words of Hank Williams, Jr. "Are YOU ready for some football?"
Whoa. Tony who? Anthony Wright? What in the name of Gary Hogeboom is going on here?
All around the country this week, the sports world has been abuzz. Baseball playoffs? Nah, wake me when the Series starts.
Some new guy named Jordan playing for the Wizards? The only MJ I know plays for Chicago.
The importance of sports in our society has been taken down a few notches over the past month. Sports is now seen for what it is, a diversion from reality. You want reality TV?? Check CNN. You want an escape, some pure unadultrated fun, some Must See TV? Then do what you do every Monday Night, tune in the NFL's version of Survivor -- Dallas vs. Washington. Last one off the island pays the bill.
The Cowboys and Redskins rivalry is among the most heated, history-filled rivalries in all of sports. Who can forget the Monday night classic images of Kenny Houston stuffing Walt Garrison at the goal line on the last play of the game in 1973, preserving a 14-7 Washington win.
I personally will never forget Joe Theismann holding the football aloft as he took an intentional safety in the 1978 game, in which the Redskins defeated my beloved Cowboys by a 9-5 score. Of course, the Cowboys would get their revenge on Theismann in the 1985 Monday Night opening game, picking off six of his passes in a 41-14 Cowboy rout that ended with the Dallas crowd serenading Theismann with "Happy Birthday."
This will be the 12th meeting of these teams on Monday Night Football, and according to ABC Sports, seven of the previous eleven games have been decided by a touchdown or less.
However, the howling from the media this week calling this the "Loser Bowl" is unwarranted. The Cowboys, America's Team, has fallen on hard times. The salary cap has ravaged this team to a mere shell of its former self. In fact, fully one-third of Dallas' salary cap this season is taken by players no longer with the squad, the ghosts of Aikman, Irvin, and Johnston, among others still casting a shadow.
The Cowboys have drafted horribly since the departure of Jimmy Johnson. The owner and GM, Jerry Jones, still insisted at the beginning of the season that Dallas had the talent to win 10 games. He obviously must have been still suffering from the after effects of his widely-known, but never publicly-acknowledged, plastic surgery, which has left Jerry looking like one of the Jacksons.
The Redskins, under frustrated fantasy football owner Dan Snyder, tried to "Steinbrenner" his way to a Super Bowl last season, with horrific results.
Attention Vegas, the over/under on camera shots to the respective skyboxes Monday night will be 1,113.
This once proud rivalry has now sunken to the level that both teams starting quarterbacks COMBINED passing rating is less than that of Kurt Warner of the Rams.
Look it up, Anthony Wright (62.3) and Tony Banks (43.8) come up short of RoboWarner (115.0).
Banks, who is to quarterbacking what Ishtar is to classic movies, was cut by Dallas this summer. If you factor in Quincy Carter's below anemic rating of 14.3, you have the makings of scores only the Deltas in "Animal House" could love.
All that said, in the words of Hank Williams, Jr. "Are YOU ready for some football?"
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