illone said:
The Eagles/Cowboys rivalry is something a little different then the long standing Cowboys/Commanders rivalry, though. We swept them, too, but it just isn't the same because our franchises have so much more history and anxiety towards one another. If you can't admit that then I guess I'm living in the wrong reality. See, I'm under the notion that the Boys and Skins are one of the biggest rivalries in all of sports. Up there with the Yanks/Sox.
Nobody is telling you guys to move over. We're enjoying the sweep while we can because it may be back to more of the same next year. If you guys sweep us again then last season will be an even greater memory.
Not to us it isn't. Point blank, they owned us for years. Way worse than we owned you. Most of our games during our streak against you came down to the wire. There was a stretch of games where their average margin of victory over us was 28 points or more.
You go look at threads here about division rivals who are most hated. The Eagles dominated the hate, not the Skins. The polls would reverse now and it isn't because you swept us it's because Skins fans came here acting like jerks.
We swept the Eagles in 2005 for the first time in years and have 6700+ members here who are fans of the team holding that broom.
I'm graciously giving you 100 fans here and the sweep last year of us by you gets 10 times the play of our sweep of the Eagles.
Translation, it's overplayed and we're tiring of it to the point where good Commanders posters aren't liked because we're sick of the crap. You guys don't like the dog icon? Point the finger at the guilty parties who have made you have to endure that dog here. Your fellow Skins fans who showed up after 9/19/05 and got more leniency here than we should have allowed. Classless bunch of jerks is the nicest way to describe most of them.
I'll take my share of the blame for the way you're treated because I was part of the leniency they got.
Sometimes enough is enough. Crap rolls downhill. What can I tell you?
