Nothing Like Beating Philadelphia!!!!
By. William C. Walker Jr.

October 21, 2013

There’s nothing like a Monday morning after the Cowboys beat the Eagles!  Ah yes to hear the bellowing of angry Eagles fans as they express their disgust of the latest Eagles defeat is like music to my ears.  Being in such close proximity to the city of Philadelphia, it brings a unique perspective as being a Cowboys fan.  Leading up to the game this past Sunday all you heard was how great Nick Foles is, and was going to be.  Just the latest back up QB in Philly to be anointed the next Van Brocklin based on a sample size smaller than an appetizer at a 5 star restaurant.  Yes Nick Foles looked awful if he wasn’t being sacked or running at about 2 miles per hour he was throwing an incomplete pass.  In a game that was built to be a wild shootout for 1^st place in the NFC East turned out to be a defensive dog fight.  Why wouldn’t you think it was going to be a shootout?  The two teams playing make up 2/3rds of the League’s worse defenses statistically.  Philly clocking in at dead last 32^nd, while Dallas wasn’t much better at 30^th.  The over for the game I think was 56 points, the way the teams played it would’ve taken 3 games to reach that.  Also you had the 2^nd highest scoring offense in Dallas, and the 4^th highest in Philadelphia.  So what happened to the offensive fireworks?  I guess no one told the two defenses that it was supposed to be an offensive game.

Yet here we were going into the halftime with a 3-0 nothing score, it was a throwback to the hard nose grind them out games from when I was introduced to the Cowboys/Eagles rivalry.  When it would usually come down to one or two plays.  But just like then I still relish in victory over the Eagles.  It’s not just that for the first time this year Dallas finally wins 2 games in a row, and it’s not because they’ve beaten every team in this weak division.  It’s that for at least a day, and probably for the week, I get to hear obnoxious Eagles fans cry of how sick of their team they are.  All the trash talk from throughout the week is silenced.  You see unlike Dallas who have actually have MULTIPLE Super Bowl trophies, Philly has absolutely none.  So when they play the Cowboys they get so fired up because it’s their Super Bowl.  Eagles fans will always accuse Cowboys fans of living in the past off of the glory years of the 90s when the Cowboys had the triplets of Aikman, Irving, and Smith.  And yes we do but guess what that’s what football is it’s history and you remember those that win over those that lose.  So even over your decade of dominance under the Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb era, when the Eagles would win division title after division title how many Super Bowls do you have.  (Brief pause for an answer)… … … Oh that’s right NONE!  So yes I relish in a victory over the Eagles, because it’s just another reminder of Cowboys Win and Eagles Suck!