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The Comeback (14-13), something to tide people over till training camp starts

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H8DLAS

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That is BAD ASS!!!!! I will never forget that!!! I let my nephew stay awake to watch the game and he will never forget it either. He is 14 and has not had alot to cheer about in his life as a redskins fan.

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Rooblakas

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Excellent Footage. I sure can't stop watching it. I remember when Moss scored them TDs, I said, " Thank you, Jesus. Thank you! "

Offensively, we'll be definitely more improved now that Al Saunders is in the mix, but I would not underestimate the Cowboys, the Eagles, or the Giants b/c the NFC East is a tough division. Anything goes.

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SkinsTillIDie

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It's hilarious how you Skins fans hold that game in such high regard, like it was a Super Bowl win or something. Don't get me wrong, it was an amazing comeback and I was in the stadium and absolutely shocked when it happened... but it was the 2nd week of the season.

We had a very similar situation against the Eagles last year. It was a road Monday Night game and we had been dominated the whole night. Dallas was down 13 late in the 4th and by some miracle we came back and Roy made the INT and returned it for a TD to cap the Cowboys win. The Philly crowd was devastated, the bar I was at went wild, and it was generally a great night. But after a couple days, we all just moved on. Nobody makes videos or praises the game or talks about how it was the best night ever.

It's just kind of funny. Is it because you had lost 14 of 15 before that night that made it so meaningful? Was it the Ring of Honor angle? Why do you all think so much of that one game?

That night and all that drama will never escape me.

Week 2, and we had put up almost 8 straight quarters of absolutely pathetic offensive football. Heading into the bye week, fans were ready to tear down this coaching staff and Mark Brunell with him. Coming off a 6-10 season in which Brunell was not too great to say the least, and all of the controversy surrounding Ramsey's benching and Brunell's subsequent shaky play... Redskin fans were looking at a riot (especially on here).

It was looking like 2004 all over again.

And then, with what appaears to be our last chance, we make dumb play after dumb play. Penalties, incomplete passes, sacks - all in all mental breakdowns. This was not a Joe Gibbs team.

But just then - a ray of hope seeping through an infintely cloudy sky of dispair.

A miracle run by the aging Mark Brunell, in what appeared to be slow motion as he sludged his feet 25 yards downfield, even making a juke that had me laughing in a moment of nervousness.

And then on 4th and long... I asked myself that night, when was the last time the football gods had answered one of my prayers? Hands in heads, pacing back and forth, looking away or clogging ears... The Impossible happened.

High-priced off-season signee Santana Moss somehow managed to grab, in double coverage, a desperate heave from midfield. I only knew that he had come down with it when I noticed the lack of excitment in the defence's faces.

That was the spark that was needed. It gave us a chance - that is all we could ask for. A chance to get the ball back and put us in a position to win the game.

And then 1st and 10 at our 30, with 2:44 left on the clock, and we sent 5 recievers. This was the perfect time to hit them with the killer blow. The Cowboy defence was still reeling from the last drive - they had us. They had us on 3rd and 27, and then 4th and 15, and we somehow broke them twice. And then we did it a third time, on the longest Redskin scoring play I could remember.

Euphoria.

Five minutes earlier, Redskin fans were in absolute dispair, the deepest of gutters. We had seen this before. In what seemed like a bajillion straight losing seasons, and the almighty Joe Gibbs seemed like he was destined for failure in his second stint. There was no hope with such a conservative offense ran by such an unspectacular quarterback. We ran the worst offense in the league.

And five minutes later, we were on the verge of heading into our bye week and subsequent Week 4 matchup undefeated.

And to add to this, two steller defensive stops, involving some brilliant tackling by Sean Taylor and the unheralded Walt Harris.

Just looking at the faces of Joe Gibbs and Dan Snyder, you could see the utter relief and euphoria of all Redskin fans. This would set the tone to our first playoff birth in what seemed like forever. This would be the year where we finally make the step up. This year would be different, this year would be the year in which we enjoy some spectacular success of our own for once. This season would be a memorable one, but for the right reasons this time.

Monday night.

Dallas.

"Ring of Fame" night or some garbage

A playoff spot virtually seemed like it was up for grabs that night. This game meant so much more than just the heated Dallas-Washington rivalry, but in such a tight division, this game would mean tiebreakers and the difference between a 10-6 season and a 9-7 season. And in the end, it did. Without that game, the Redskins would have been sitting home once again in January, and the Cowboys would not have.

Of course, had the Cowboys made the playoffs, I am sure that Roy Willimas interception would have been all the more special. But of course, it just became one play in a season that all Dallas fans would like to forget in a hurry.

EDIT: And oh yeah, great video sable! :cheers:

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Redskin4ever

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SkinsTillIDie - What you just said went over the head of every cowgirls fan. To understand your argument, they would have to understand football and all the emotion that goes with it. I expect them to downplay it, but this just further proves the lack of football intelligence (translation for cowgirls fans: that's how much you know. Or in this case the lack of what you know.) they have.

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Henry

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It's just kind of funny. Is it because you had lost 14 of 15 before that night that made it so meaningful? Was it the Ring of Honor angle? Why do you all think so much of that one game?

http://dallascowboyszone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35204&highlight=washington+redskins

Thank you, Washington Redskins.

To have a winner, you must also have a loser and you’ve filled that role beautifully during my many years as a fan of the Dallas Cowboys.

I learned to love the Cowboys at a very early age, watching games with my dad and sometimes my brothers, uncles and grandfathers. I’m lucky, I guess …lucky that I was born in a part of the country where the Cowboys were on television every Sunday afternoon. We didn’t have to go looking for them. They were there every week when we got home from church.

Thank you, Washington Redskins.

Tom Landry was our hero. And so was Roger Staubach. And Bob Lilly. They were easy to like. Good men. Winners on and off the field.

But every hero needs a villain. In the early 1970s, George Allen was brought in to coach the Redskins and voila … a villain was born. He looked and acted like Dick Nixon’s more-evil twin. The hunched-over physique, the arched eye-brows that topped a face that was up to no good. He was Dick Dastardly, the cartoon race car driver who would cheat to win. He licked his thumbs constantly, why, I’m not sure. Maybe he descended from cannibals. He was quite a contrast from Tom Landry … the always-calm gentleman with a face that looks like it belongs carved into Mount Rushmore.

Thank you, Washington Redskins.

South River, New Jersey, produced two future NFL standouts just a couple of years apart: Joe Theismann and Drew Pearson. Theismann became a Redskin and Drew became a Cowboy. How perfect.

My lasting memory of Drew vs. the Redskins was him hauling in an improbable bomb hurled by a guy named Clint Longley. My lasting memory of Theismann vs. the Cowboys was him tossing five interceptions against “Thurman’s Thieves” on a September night in 1985 and losing, 44-14. It was Theismann’s birthday and the Cowboy fans serenaded him with “Happy Birthday” late in the game.

Theismann, with his one-bar face mask, Joe Pesci voice and constant whining was the anti-Staubach. He did the Redskins well, following in the staggered footsteps of former beer-bellied quarterbacks Sonny Jurgensen and Billy Kilmer.

Thank you, Washington Redskins.

There have been Cowboys who have become Redskins over the years. When it happens, the players (or coaches) are never do as well in Washington as they did in Dallas. Duane Thomas, Jean Fugett, James Washington. Oh, and Norval Turner. The offensive genius who helped bring out the potential in Troy Aikman went to Washington and drafted the next Aikman, Heath Shuler. Perfect.

With George Allen long passed and the Redskins being on the verge of becoming nice guys, a diminutive, sadistic, ill-tempered Redskins fan named Daniel M. Snyder bought the team. He fired Norv. He also hired and fired a solid NFL coach in Marty Schottenheimer. The man-crush he had on Steve Spurrier was consummated the next year, but that too didn’t work out. He brought in sack legend Bruce Smith and cover legend Deion Sanders. Nothing worked. Each time, each move blew up in his pudgy, burgundy-colored face.

Snyder retaliated against newspapers who wrote the truth about him and his joke of a franchise. He charged admission to his training camp practices one year and that blew up in his face, too.

Thank you, Washington Redskins.

Dallas has won 14 out of the past 15 games. Chan Gailey never lost to the Redskins. Dave Campo, for crying out loud, was 5-1. Also during this span, Dallas has beaten Washington with quarterbacks such as Quincy Carter, Chad Hutchinson, Anthony Wright and Vinny Testaverde.

So many Cowboy players have had their biggest plays or greatest days against Washington. Roger’s double comeback in 1979. Drew’s catch from Longley. Tony Hill has had at least two-game winning catches against Washington. Michael Irvin caught three TD passes as a rookie against Washington and later made a habit of abusing Hall-of-Famer Darrel Green. Raghib Ismail stabbed them in the heart, not once, but twice on late bombs, one from Troy and one from Carter. Even young Patrick Crayton is off to a nice start in this rivalry.

Thank you, Washington Redskins.

Recently, Snyder reached into the Redskins’ past to try to turn around the franchise that he is helping to ruin. He brought Joe Gibbs back. But this isn’t the same Joe Gibbs. Age, time away from the NFL and health problems have robbed Gibbs of the magic he used to have. Either that, or perhaps my theory is correct: anyone who gets near Daniel Snyder immediately loses 20 IQ points. Gibbs now looks like a character from the old TV show, Hee-Haw. He tried to make a joke recently about the “ugly” Dallas Cowboy fans. What a comedian. When you’ve lost 14 of 15 to your archrival, that’s about all you can do. I guess he forgot about the cross-dressing, pig-snout wearing inbreds that used to litter RFK stadium.

For every Popeye, there has to be a Bluto. Somebody has to lose … and look stupid doing it.

Thank you, Washington Redskins. You’ve made being a Cowboy fan a joy for so many years.

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BigDave95

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That night and all that drama will never escape me.

SkinsTillIDie - Great post. That really paints a great picture of what the Skins fan was living: frustration and desperation turned into euphoria and hope.

Just a really good post......

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Eternal_Cowboy

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FANTASTIC!!!! the look on Jerry Jones face is PRICELESS! We will sweep again this year...All we gotta do is double T.O. and score points. They think T.O. is the whole team. They got another thing comin'..

Sure thing, go ahead and double TO. Then watch Terry Glenn make Sean Taylor his personal whipping post on national television (again)

Want to stop Glenn too? Then watch Jason Witten truck Adam Archuleta

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Drunk

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No, it was just kind of a shock to the system. After dominating you guys for so long, it just felt a little weird :cool:

it's a known fact that losers live in the past.

dallas fans that use the 'overall' argument = uncle_rico.jpg

hey eternal, i bet back in '82 you could throw a pigskin a quarter mile, couldn't you. :laugh:

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Switchgear

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It's hilarious how you Skins fans hold that game in such high regard, like it was a Super Bowl win or something. Don't get me wrong, it was an amazing comeback and I was in the stadium and absolutely shocked when it happened... but it was the 2nd week of the season.

Here's hoping that in 6 years you'll have firsthand knowledge of what a game like would mean.

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Redskin Ted

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Terry Glen had a fluke season last year.. Jason Whitten ( HAHAHAHA ) Truck Arch uleta? Yeah right. You can sit home and watch us in the playoffs again...just like last year. Oh, by the way, I was in Texas last year during the comeback game and never seen so many grown men cry like babies! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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Henry

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And yet, Dallas still owns Washington is every conceivable way. What's your point?

I suppose now would be a good time to bring up 26-3 and 31-17. Those scores represent one conceivable, and rather significant, way that Dallas does not, in fact, own Washington.

My point is that perhaps now Dallas fans will stop acting so spoiled about thier supposed entitlement to two wins a year over the Redskins, though judging from your post it appears you haven't.

So as long as you insist on holding yourself with such un-substantiated confidence here, you'd better hope that that confidence is justified over the upcoming year, because if it isn't, you could be in for another long season, and we'll just keep on making videos of it. :)

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Eternal_Cowboy

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Terry Glen had a fluke season last year.. Jason Whitten ( HAHAHAHA ) Truck Arch uleta? Yeah right. You can sit home and watch us in the playoffs again...just like last year. Oh, by the way, I was in Texas last year during the comeback game and never seen so many grown men cry like babies! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I've never seen a grown man who speaks like he has oerdosed on caffeine

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