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Now, if they can only keep it going!!

I knew there was a BIG reason you're one of my fav's here ES. Just look at my av. Hahah!!

Any time Dallas loses, it's a Good Thing.

The only time I ever care about sports is when the Redskins are playing. And damn if they aren't sucking nearly as much as usual this year! Hope it continues.

Cowboyz blow. Nice job Skins!

And screw you too Rams! Serves you right!

I love how they tried to make the redskins/cowboys game about some BIG ICONIC RIVALRY... I mean come on, it's no Browns/Steelers.... its no Colts/Patriots ... It's no Vikings/Packers ...

Every time the Cowboys have a conference game, it's a HUGE RIVALRY that has produced EPIC GAMES... Oh my gosh!!! It's the EAGLES and the COWBOYS!!! HOLY CRAP!!!... and wait, the next week, it's the HISTORIC GIANTS VS. COWBOYS!!! GOOD LORD!!!

:rolleyes:

Hey now, some of us take the Cowboys/Redskins rivalry very seriously... I agree that the Cowboys have a lot of "rivals", but still...

it takes away from any 1 rivalry when a team has so many other "rivalries"

Originally Posted by Decka
I love how they tried to make the redskins/cowboys game about some BIG ICONIC RIVALRY... I mean come on, it's no Browns/Steelers.... its no Colts/Patriots ... It's no Vikings/Packers ...

Every time the Cowboys have a conference game, it's a HUGE RIVALRY that has produced EPIC GAMES... Oh my gosh!!! It's the EAGLES and the COWBOYS!!! HOLY CRAP!!!... and wait, the next week, it's the HISTORIC GIANTS VS. COWBOYS!!! GOOD LORD!!!
It's America's Team! The Dallas Cowboys, with their blistering offense...their juggernaut defense...the wonder kid, Tony Romo at the helm will fight for sports glory as they take on the London Sillynannies! Tune in for the most prolific...the most epic...the greatest sporting event of our time!

Everything the Cowboys do gets blown to unnecessary heights...

It's America's Team! The Dallas Cowboys, with their blistering offense...their juggernaut defense...the wonder kid, Tony Romo at the helm will fight for sports glory as they take on the London Sillynannies! Tune in for the most prolific...the most epic...the greatest sporting event of our time!

Everything the Cowboys do gets blown to unnecessary heights...

Of course..they're God's Team.

Drop kick me Jesus, through the goalposts of life.....

Of course..they're God's Team.

Drop kick me Jesus, through the goalposts of life.....

But Romo would botch the hold on the Field Goal...

ROFL

I love how they tried to make the redskins/cowboys game about some BIG ICONIC RIVALRY... I mean come on, it's no Browns/Steelers.... its no Colts/Patriots ... It's no Vikings/Packers ...

Every time the Cowboys have a conference game, it's a HUGE RIVALRY that has produced EPIC GAMES... Oh my gosh!!! It's the EAGLES and the COWBOYS!!! HOLY CRAP!!!... and wait, the next week, it's the HISTORIC GIANTS VS. COWBOYS!!! GOOD LORD!!!

:rolleyes:

What are you talking about? Redskins/Cowboys is a huge rivalry in the NFL, much bigger and longer standing then Colt/Patriots, or even Browns/Steelers. hell, teh Browns were not even a team for a few years there.

Anyway, you have to admit NFC east is the best division in football, even though I hate every team in it, each game IS a good game and an important game.

I love how they tried to make the redskins/cowboys game about some BIG ICONIC RIVALRY... I mean come on, it's no Browns/Steelers.... its no Colts/Patriots ... It's no Vikings/Packers ...

Every time the Cowboys have a conference game, it's a HUGE RIVALRY that has produced EPIC GAMES... Oh my gosh!!! It's the EAGLES and the COWBOYS!!! HOLY CRAP!!!... and wait, the next week, it's the HISTORIC GIANTS VS. COWBOYS!!! GOOD LORD!!!

:rolleyes:I have to disagree with this sentiment decka.


All time rivalries in football, imo


1. 'skins - 'boys
2. raiders - chiefs
3. vikings - packers



*Back in the day, Raiders vs. anyone was a big rivalry. I remember when the Seahawks were in their division and I LOVED watching those games.

Not as much as it use to be, but definitely longer than the Washington - Dallas, is the Packers and Bears.

Here are some team histories.

Cleveland Browns, founded 1946

Pittsburgh Steelers, founded 1933 by Art Rooney ( and the Rooney family still has controlling interest)

Washington Redskins, originally the Boston (football) Braves, founded 1932

Chicago Bears, originally the Decatur Staleys, founded 1920 ( and God Bless Papa Bear Halas. I read a biography of him not long ago. It was fascinating as it told the story of the infant pro teams and how they almost went under many times. Papa Bear was the driving force in seeing that the baby league did not. He was the heart and soul of pro football, which ranked way down the list in popularity amongst American sports fans, after baseball and college football. It was his brilliant idea to bring in college's top star--Red Grange--in order to draw the crowds. Papa Bear and the Bears ARE the NFL.

Green Bay Packers--founded 1919, entered NFL 1920. Bears-Packers oldest and best rivalry.

PS. Not gonna add the Cowboys. Who cares. Being America's Team, not to mention, God's team, their history is already written in our Constitution AND the Bible.

( and God Bless Papa Bear Halas. I read a biography of him not long ago. It was fascinating as it told the story of the infant pro teams and how they almost went under many times. Papa Bear was the driving force in seeing that the baby league did not.

Papa Bear actually worked to keep the Packers from going under.

Daaaa Bearssss.

Papa Bear actually worked to keep the Packers from going under.

Daaaa Bearssss.

That's right--don't the Packers have the original draft of the check Papa Bear wrote the Packers (to keep them operating) on a wall in their front office?

After Lombardi won his first championship, I believe the first congratulatory telegram he received was from Halas.

I am not sure about the check, but I heard it was when they were trying to get Lambeau Field was built. He was a speaker at a banquet in Green Bay, and turned over the check to pay him as a speaker to the fund.

Here is the article on the Green Bay web site with about Halas.



by Lee Remmel, Team Historian
posted 12/26/2006

The late George Stanley Halas, urbane founder of the Chicago Bears, and ebullient Earl Louis Lambeau, who co-founded the Green Bay Packers, could arguably be saluted as the founding fathers of the National Football League.

But, even more appropriately, as the co-authors of professional football's most prolific and colorful rivalry, which Sunday will find the Green and Gold meeting the alleged Monsters of the Midway for the 172nd time in regular-season competition.
No two other NFL teams can make that claim.

The reason being that no two other NFL teams have met as many as 172 times.
Nor with as much annual animus on both sides of the ball.

Halas, of course, was there at the very beginning - on Aug. 20, 1920 - when the American Professsional Football Conference, forerunner of the NFL, was organized in the Jordan and Hupmobile auto showroom in Canton, Ohio.

Lambeau, who had founded the fledgling Packers in 1919, came upon the league scene in 1921 - the same season the Green and Gold launched their rivalry with the Bears.

From time to time over the years, some observers have expressed doubts about the intensity level of what unquestionably is the granddaddy of all rivalries in the history of professional football, the customary suggestion being that it might be on the wane.

And, candidly, the neighborhood series might never have reached its currently imposing dimensions if Lambeau and Halas, both consummate competitors, had not shrewdly fueled the feud from the start.

Each a showman in his own right, they did so in part by making it an invariable point never to shake hands after any of their twice-annual contests...win, lose or draw.
To the tightly "wired" Lambeau, losing to the Bears any time...any year...was unthinkable.

And, to be sure, it was equally distasteful to the suave and comparably committed Halas, a classic and crafty competitor.

In point of fact, Halas allegedly would go to extreme lengths to make sure his athletes would have an optimum opportunity to win.

All of which added another emotional chapter to the Packers-Bears rivalry.

For example, it was not uncommon for the Packers to arrive at Wrigley Field or - in more recent years, at Soldier Field in the Windy City - and discover that the phone from the press box to the field was not operative.

Because, on occasion in an earlier, less-monitored time, the wires had been cut.

And further, in the distant days when there was a Packers Lumberjack Band and the Packers traveled their musicians to Chicago - as far back as the 1920s and '30s - it was not uncommon to find that the band had been assigned to some remote corner of the Bears' home field, where its music could not be heard by the Green and Gold - or their visiting fans.

Also, more than once, the Packers would discover there was only cold water for the post-game shower in the visitors' dressing room.

One such incident occurred in 1978, a day on which the Packers were shut out by the Monsters of the Midway, 14-0.

Then, to subsequently suffer an icy shower in the bowels of Soldier Field - adding insult to injury - before boarding a Northwest Airlines 747 and the long ride to Los Angeles to prepare for the season finale against the Rams a week later.

Not exactly what the disgruntled Green and Gold had in mind.

The immediate, knee-jerk reaction, inevitably, was to blame Halas for any such "irregularity."

George, of course, never acknowledged involvement in or awareness of any such inconveniences as cut phone lines or frosty showers.

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And, admittedly, the statute of limitations has long since expired.

Despite such presumably cavalier treatment, what sometimes becomes lost in the process is that Papa Bear was a true friend of the Packers when and where it counted most.
Such as the time in 1956, when the City of Green Bay and the Packers Corporation sponsored a referendum vote for the funding of what initially became "City Stadium" and now is Lambeau Field.

Halas himself came to Green Bay shortly before the election, to speak in highly positive fashion of the Packers' value to the Bears in the already-celebrated rivalry, and to the National Football League - and of the team's need for a new stadium and the economic benefits that would accrue to the City of Green Bay with that entity.

And, as important as his endorsement was at that point in time, it today pales by comparison to the Bears owner-coach's vocal support of the 1962 proposal that all NFL teams share equally in television revenue, a long-standing policy that has been a model for all of professional sports.

Without it, assuredly, the Packers would no longer exist.

Imagine, Green and Gold loyalists, what that would be like...

Ha--those are some great tales.
My daughter subscribes to Packer Report and when she lived herre i'd read it and always enjoyed Lee Remmel's columns.

Texas 45

Oklahoma 35


I attended University of Texas at Austin during the early 1970s. The annual meeting between UT and the University of Oklahoma has always been a great rivalry. A fine beginning for a football weekend!

Agreed.

It's been a great weekend for college football upsets.
Am hoping for one or two upsets today in the NFL contests.

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The Cardinals thump the Cowpukes.

The Bills are off this week.

Would have been another perfect weekend had my 'Skins won. :(

Bummed.

The Dolphins/Texans contest was an epic battle, and unfortunately one that my Fish lost in the final seconds.

Oh well. The Texans deserved that win.


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Much as it pains me to say, the Rams just outplayed the 'Skins and deserved to win as well. It was an exciting game. Hope they ('Skins) play better next week.

As much as it pains me to say this, it's totally unsurprising that we'd lose to the fucking Rams... Oh well, at least the Ravens got stomped. :D

How in the hell does Washington beat Philly and Dallas and then lose to the Rams?

How in the hell does Washington beat Philly and Dallas and then lose to the Rams?I've been a fan for 30 odd years and still wonder myself every year....

Indeed... It's the Redskins curse. We're good enough to beat good teams, and bad enough to lose to sucky teams.

Buffalo: 23

San Diego: 14

The Bills move to 5 -1, but get no respect while doing so.


St Louis: 34

Dallas: 14

The cowpukes can't get past the Rams? The sky is falling ... the sky is falling!


In college ball, the Texas Longhorns move to 7 -0, beating the Missouri Tigers 56 - 31.

Another fine football weekend.

:drinktoth

It was have a good weekend. The Packers beat the Colts 34 - 7, and played the best game for the season going into the bye.

On the other hand, the Wisconsin team is going down the chute. They lost two Iowa, which makes 4 losses in a row. Boy was the experts wrong when they picked them in the preseason for the season.

'Skins win. 'Boys lose. 'Nuff said. :)

It was have a good weekend. The Paclers beat the Colts 34 - 7, and played the best game for the season going into the bye.

This is for Decka:

It's time for Manning to admit he's too old and retire! He's just hurting the team!!!

This is for Decka:

It's time for Manning to admit he's too old and retire! He's just hurting the team!!!

Decka, Manning had two intercepts for touchdowns against the Colts. Obviously he's know good. Better fire him and get a good quarterback.

Browns win!
Browns win!


Where's Carbon?
He can't run off now that we look somewhat respectable.

The Bills apparently had their flash-in-the-pan & are now back to doing what they do best : losing.

The Bills apparently had their flash-in-the-pan & are now back to doing what they do best : losing.

I think that was pretty much guaranteed when they made Dick Jauron the coach.

The Bills apparently had their flash-in-the-pan & are now back to doing what they do best : losing.
Hey, I don't much care, as long as Marshawn Lynch has games like that one every week! Marshawn, baby, your 22 fantasy points saved my ass!