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Gonzo: Cowboys are back, and it's galling
By John Gonzalez
Inquirer Columnist
It was sort of like walking in on your woman with another man - unexpected and awful. You recoiled and got angry (and maybe cried a little), and now you can't get the image out of your head. It's there when you close your eyes at night, mocking you.
There was Jerry Jones, smiling and mugging for the camera in his box at Cowboys Stadium. There was George W. Bush with a look of similar satisfaction. And then they embraced. And then the rest of us tried not to vomit.
Everything is relative. Less than a week after the 'Boys "sting they [backside]" (hi, DJacc), the most disappointing thing about the Eagles' season is that they served as confidence boosters for an organization that hadn't won a playoff game since 1996. For years, the Cowboys left their cleats untied and tripped all over the field. They were utter buffoons, making wrong move (Tank Johnson) after wrong move (Pacman Jones) after wrong move (Terrell Owens). And now, one season after the Birds dispatched them with a 44-6 year-end drubbing at the Linc, the 'Boys are back and just as smug as ever.
"We didn't have to play our best game," Tony Romo said after Saturday's smackdown, insulting the Eagles after injuring their pride and ending their season. And here's the hard truth: He was right.
It's bad enough that the Eagles are out of the playoffs and we're once more forced to wait for next year. It's just as bad, though, that the 'Boys have become America's darlings again, trumpeted by talking heads across the land as a hot team with a real chance of going deep into the playoffs.
And the Birds? Now they're sitting around talking about what went wrong and how they can figure out a way to keep up with the Joneses. Welcome to your nightmare, Eagles fans.
"I think the Cowboys were probably sitting in the same position we are last year," Andy Reid said. "They were looking at this going, 'Doggone, the Eagles got after us pretty good.' They went back to the drawing board and they answered that question. Do I think that we can close that gap? Absolutely, and we'll do that. I'm going to make sure we do that. That's a great goal for us as players and coaches."
There are some important football games this weekend, but none carries bigger implications than the Dallas-Minnesota matchup. The Vikings are favored by three, which is Vegas' way of saying the teams are pretty evenly matched. If the Favres win, they will do the country a great favor by holding back this growing swell of Cowboys momentum and arrogance.
If the 'Boys win, brace yourself. Not only will Dallas then be just one win away from the Super Bowl, the team's miserable fair-weather fans will begin slithering out from their hiding places like filthy, front-running cockroaches. All the Raid in the world won't be able to beat them back. It's ugly enough around here right now without having to deal with all that.
Buy something purple this weekend. Wear it proudly.
Nothing better then unhappy Filthydelphians!!!!!!
By John Gonzalez
Inquirer Columnist
It was sort of like walking in on your woman with another man - unexpected and awful. You recoiled and got angry (and maybe cried a little), and now you can't get the image out of your head. It's there when you close your eyes at night, mocking you.
There was Jerry Jones, smiling and mugging for the camera in his box at Cowboys Stadium. There was George W. Bush with a look of similar satisfaction. And then they embraced. And then the rest of us tried not to vomit.
Everything is relative. Less than a week after the 'Boys "sting they [backside]" (hi, DJacc), the most disappointing thing about the Eagles' season is that they served as confidence boosters for an organization that hadn't won a playoff game since 1996. For years, the Cowboys left their cleats untied and tripped all over the field. They were utter buffoons, making wrong move (Tank Johnson) after wrong move (Pacman Jones) after wrong move (Terrell Owens). And now, one season after the Birds dispatched them with a 44-6 year-end drubbing at the Linc, the 'Boys are back and just as smug as ever.
"We didn't have to play our best game," Tony Romo said after Saturday's smackdown, insulting the Eagles after injuring their pride and ending their season. And here's the hard truth: He was right.
It's bad enough that the Eagles are out of the playoffs and we're once more forced to wait for next year. It's just as bad, though, that the 'Boys have become America's darlings again, trumpeted by talking heads across the land as a hot team with a real chance of going deep into the playoffs.
And the Birds? Now they're sitting around talking about what went wrong and how they can figure out a way to keep up with the Joneses. Welcome to your nightmare, Eagles fans.
"I think the Cowboys were probably sitting in the same position we are last year," Andy Reid said. "They were looking at this going, 'Doggone, the Eagles got after us pretty good.' They went back to the drawing board and they answered that question. Do I think that we can close that gap? Absolutely, and we'll do that. I'm going to make sure we do that. That's a great goal for us as players and coaches."
There are some important football games this weekend, but none carries bigger implications than the Dallas-Minnesota matchup. The Vikings are favored by three, which is Vegas' way of saying the teams are pretty evenly matched. If the Favres win, they will do the country a great favor by holding back this growing swell of Cowboys momentum and arrogance.
If the 'Boys win, brace yourself. Not only will Dallas then be just one win away from the Super Bowl, the team's miserable fair-weather fans will begin slithering out from their hiding places like filthy, front-running cockroaches. All the Raid in the world won't be able to beat them back. It's ugly enough around here right now without having to deal with all that.
Buy something purple this weekend. Wear it proudly.
Nothing better then unhappy Filthydelphians!!!!!!
