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So what started the Redskins/Cowboys beef anyway?


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And I'm part of that few! I really despise anything Dallas b/c of the cowgirls. I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, don't like them. I want to say hate them but that's such a powerful word filled with lots of emotion. Oh screw it, I hate the cowgirls.

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My sentiments EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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It's the history of the song

It's the arrogance of their organization and the Fans

The games we played against them that ended like the game in Buffalo....(how many times have they stuck it to us when we had them behind the eight ball?

That America's Team crap...that make me crazy everytime I hear it.

They for the most part get the better of us

Them being media darlings no matter what....Aikman even said when things are going well being the Dallas Cowboy QB is the best job in the world

the whole thing makes me sick...need I go on?

That's why when we stick it to them it's that much sweeter.

HAIL

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we get this question every couple of months. a short version of the story is that when the cowboys wanted to become a franchise, they needed the other owners to vote. and it was known that the redskins owner would vote against them. so the cowboys owner bought the rights to the music of "hail to the redskins" and said that if he ever wanted to hear that song in the stadium again, he would vote for the cowboys. he got his vote, we got the song yada yada yada, troy vincent blocks a field goal and sean taylor picks it up and returns it for a few yards and nick novak kicks a game winnin field goal.

haha i like this summary

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I think it was George Allen who started it really boiling, but there was a dislike in Washington for Dallas from the start. Apparently there was some thought that they were going to cut in to the Redskins fan base which used to stretch across the south.

That's what was told to me anyway, but the important thing is they embody all that is wrong and evil. EVERYONE hates them. We just hate them better.

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The battle between good and evil goes back to the beginning. I first heard about it when I was a kid in Northern Virginia.

A kid was just supposed to grow up liking cornbread, crabs and the Redskins. And hating the Cowboys. Very simple.:dallasuck

This is correct, though I grew up in Maryland. :dallasuck :dallasuck :dallasuck

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I'll have to ask my Dad again, he's been a fan since the 1950's and remembers when it all started. If I remember correctly he said that when Dallas was trying to become a franchise the rule at that time was for every team to give the new franchise a player from each team to start the new franchise team and there was some discrepancy over the player the Redskins offered, I believe a QB. I have never heard the story about Hail to the Redskins.

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George Preston Marshall had the "hail to the Redskins song", but never copyrighted it, so the prospective owners of Dallass held it hostage and would only give it back to him if he voted for a team in Dallass. GPM owned the whole south with Radio and coverage and didn't want to give the area up.

Well, as a fourth generation Floridian, I can tell you that he did NOT lose Florida! My grandfather was a Skins fan. My Dad was a Redskins fan. And *I* am most decidedly a Redskins fan! Sure .. there are always the idiot fairweather Cowboy sheeple everywhere, but Florida is Skins country. Most native Floridians grew up being Skins fans before there were the Yucks, the Jugs, and the Deadphish.

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Some of you will probably think I'm stupid or extremely ignorant, but with all of the things I've learned about this team, I never was taught the real reason that these two teams hate each other.

All I know is that I was taught not to like the Pukes. Then as I got older, I hated them simply because of their arrogance, ****iness, etc.

But what really started it all?

Guesses:

1. Caucasians stealing the country from Indians (aka, see a John Wayne movie).

2. The history of "the country" of Texas, which has anti-establishment bent. Natural to oppose nation's capitol team.

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Hail to the Redskins

Roger Staubach - Makes me sick

America's Team - Then I must not be American

Drew Pearson, Michael Irving, Tony Dorsett, Calvin Hill, Randy White, Ed Jones, Harvey Martin, Craig Morton, Clint Longley, Bob Hayes, Walt Garrison, Hollywood Henderson, Tom Landry, The Star, The hole in the Stadium, The Cheerleaders, Being able to wear their white jerseys on the road and forcing other teams to where their road jerseys, Giving us Norv (They knew he wasn't head coaching material when we sought permission to talk to him), Anything blue and white, the announcers having mental masturbation sessions when Dallas plays, Redskins have fallen behind in value of the franchise and in number of SB's played. Yada Yada Yada Yada (stolen from another poster) lol

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Well, as a fourth generation Floridian, I can tell you that he did NOT lose Florida! My grandfather was a Skins fan. My Dad was a Redskins fan. And *I* am most decidedly a Redskins fan! Sure .. there are always the idiot fairweather Cowboy sheeple everywhere, but Florida is Skins country. Most native Floridians grew up being Skins fans before there were the Yucks, the Jugs, and the Deadphish.
your one hundred, how was your grandfather a skins fan?:D
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Way back, the original owner of the cowboys was trying to have a team in the NFL. This needed a unanimous vote from the other owners. The owner of the Skins, JP Marshall, kept voting "NO"

Mr. Marshal had a falling out with the guy who rote "hail to the Redskins", and that guy sold the rights to the song to the cowboys potential owner. Now this potential owner had leverage over marshall, and in return for the song, Marshall voted yes to the caowboys. The potential owner had new lyrics for the cowboys ready and was rubbing salt in the wound.

So there you have it. Plus, they suck.

Not quite. Marshal's wife wrote HTTR, but they never got it copyrighted. The COwboys swooped it up and bought the copyright and held it hostage for a vote. Then, when they got their franchise, via league rules back then, they took all of the best Redskins on the roster at that time that they could and made them Coeboys.:doh:
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There is so much crap between the ownership of both clubs it leak into the fans base. It hasn't been as strong as it was in the 70s and 80s but hopefully Campbell will change that to a point where the media will hype up the games (Pats vs cowboys) and the rival true hate will be alive again.

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Some of you will probably think I'm stupid or extremely ignorant, but with all of the things I've learned about this team, I never was taught the real reason that these two teams hate each other.

All I know is that I was taught not to like the Pukes. Then as I got older, I hated them simply because of their arrogance, ****iness, etc.

But what really started it all?

I believe it had something to do with the killing of buffalo.

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