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Homecoming in Dallas
It is the closest thing to a homecoming game that NFL fans will get. Replace the beauty queens with NFL hall-of-famers, and replace the homecoming crowns with superbowl rings and the halftime show is very similar to what you could see on a collage campus. It is a national stage with past and present Cowboy greats returning to witness the triplets being awarded the ultimate honor from the most successful NFL franchise ever. How fitting is it that early 1990’s NFC East rival coaches Bill Parcells and Joe Gibbs will be on hand to celebrate in one capacity or another?
Commander fans will tell you this was a setup, scheduled deliberately to embarrass their fallen franchise. Cowboy fans realize that many of our great memories of the triplets involve the villains in burgundy and gold and the rivalry really only exists today in the minds of the opponents. It can be argued that the very reasons today’s Commander fans hate the Dallas Cowboy franchise is because the guy that sits in their owner’s booth is always one step behind Jerry Jones in his pursuit of greatness.
This year brings us two teams from opposite universes heading in opposite directions that are literally and figuratively colliding with national respect up for grabs. One team is so close they can taste a late January game, and the other is fighting like heck to keep from drafting in the top five next April.
The one-sided rivalry has been a point of embarrassment for the Commanders in the eyes of their faithful. A once great Commanders coach finds himself in a woeful situation trying to keep tarnish off of his legacy. No super bowls or even playoff appearances are in his future. His only hope to be remembered fondly is to outmaneuver a superior team, superior coach, and superior franchise during their homecoming,. . . . on national television.
Enjoy the further separation of the two franchises as it will become more and more difficult for us to explain to our children’s children the hatred and rivalry. With their own generation of Dallas Cowboys hero’s, my children will tell the story to their children about the Monday night in September 2005 when America’s Team took one step further to hoisting the super bowl trophy they only know as “The Landry Trophy.”
It is the closest thing to a homecoming game that NFL fans will get. Replace the beauty queens with NFL hall-of-famers, and replace the homecoming crowns with superbowl rings and the halftime show is very similar to what you could see on a collage campus. It is a national stage with past and present Cowboy greats returning to witness the triplets being awarded the ultimate honor from the most successful NFL franchise ever. How fitting is it that early 1990’s NFC East rival coaches Bill Parcells and Joe Gibbs will be on hand to celebrate in one capacity or another?
Commander fans will tell you this was a setup, scheduled deliberately to embarrass their fallen franchise. Cowboy fans realize that many of our great memories of the triplets involve the villains in burgundy and gold and the rivalry really only exists today in the minds of the opponents. It can be argued that the very reasons today’s Commander fans hate the Dallas Cowboy franchise is because the guy that sits in their owner’s booth is always one step behind Jerry Jones in his pursuit of greatness.
This year brings us two teams from opposite universes heading in opposite directions that are literally and figuratively colliding with national respect up for grabs. One team is so close they can taste a late January game, and the other is fighting like heck to keep from drafting in the top five next April.
The one-sided rivalry has been a point of embarrassment for the Commanders in the eyes of their faithful. A once great Commanders coach finds himself in a woeful situation trying to keep tarnish off of his legacy. No super bowls or even playoff appearances are in his future. His only hope to be remembered fondly is to outmaneuver a superior team, superior coach, and superior franchise during their homecoming,. . . . on national television.
Enjoy the further separation of the two franchises as it will become more and more difficult for us to explain to our children’s children the hatred and rivalry. With their own generation of Dallas Cowboys hero’s, my children will tell the story to their children about the Monday night in September 2005 when America’s Team took one step further to hoisting the super bowl trophy they only know as “The Landry Trophy.”