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Cowboys Lauging On The Flight Home From Their Loss to the Eagles

Every morning I get the "Morning Bark" from YardBarker.  I do a quick read of the highlights and occasionally click on a few stories.  This morning, what do my wondering eye fall upon?  A thread posted by AlanaG about the Cowboys laughing on their charter flight home from Philly.That thread referenced a post made by RobertD on Dallas Sports Fan that detailed everything that happened, as described by Mark “Friedo” Friedman about his experience flying home on the Cowboys charter.

The Cowboys were hooting and hollering like it was the "last day of school".  Reading that, needless to say I was stunned.  Talk about a lack of respect for their coaches (of course we all know the egomanical idiot has no respect for anyone, I might throw Pacman in that club, too), the owner, Jerry Jones or their fans who eseentially at the end of the day pay their salaries by buying seats, shirts, fan gear and everything else the Cowboys make a profit on.

Romo said in the press conference afterwards “It’s just a game. If losing a football game is the worst thing that happens to me, I’ll have a pretty good life.” If this was any other team, any other quarterback, do you think they would have said those words after such humiliation?  Cowboy fans must be furious.  If that was Donovan saying that - he would most certainly be planning to head to a different team next year.  But see, that's the difference here between the Eagles and Cowboys.

Buying talent doesn't make you a team.  Sorry Jerry Jones, Sorry Deon Sanders (what does he really know about football anyway?) it obviously doesn't.

A team does need talent, but a team also needs leadership, a team needs will, a team needs character, a team needs to bond and be a team.  Individual talent does not win game after game.  Individual talent, no matter how much you thump your chest, "cry for your quarterback", or throw your opponent to the ground, doesn't win you games in December.  There's both an offense and a defense.  There isn't just 1 guy on the field, on the offense (sorry T.O.). 

The Eagles, no matter how upset us fans get with them play as a team - together.  When they loose, they understand its as a team.  When they win, they understand its as a team.  Its rare that you will see the Eagles pointing fingers at each other like T.O. does (a week or so saying they didn't get all they bargained for out of Roy Williams).  That's why I'm glad T.O. is gone, the guy doesn't understand that old cliche', there's no "I" in team.  For him it was never about a Team effort, it was always about a T.O. effort.  Who's laughing now, Jerry Jones?  I think the Eagles are.

At the end of the day, Eagles fans should be happy we don't have a team like the Cowboys, right now.  Those guys aren't the team of Aikman & Smith, perhaps we should be thankful for that, cuz those guys did play like a team.  Eagles fans, for however fleeting our post season could be, should celebrate that our guys are a team and a decent one at that.  Our guys wouldn't be laughing and hollering that their season was over, our guys would be down on themselves for letting their coaches down, their owner and most importantly - us (the fans). 

Not once did I hear in any of their press time afterwords the Cowboys mention the fans.  It was quite the opposite for Eagles, and it always is.  Those guys realize beyond their own disappointment, they really let us down on occasion and genuinely seem bad about it.  I think those guys love us, as much as we love them.

By the looks of things, that's quite different in Dallas, Texas.

Eagles Trounce Dallas to Roll Into Playoffs - What a Nice Christmas Gift

It's been really tough for me to write this entire season, I lost the one person I use to love to talk about the games with.  My dad died a few months ago, and it's jut been tough, so this is the reason that EaglesChick has been so quiet.

Tonight though, I just felt that "it was time".  This game, was like Christmas morning when I was a kid.  What a beautiful Christmas Gift!  Thank you Donovan McNabb, Brian Dawkins, Corell Buckhalter, Quintin Michaels, heck the entire team!

Last night talk in the bar I hang out, was that our season was pretty much done, the best thing we could wish for was for us to beat Dallas - like we always do.  Never did we expect the stars to align and then have our boys hold their destiny in their hands.  I think a great thank you needs to go out to Houston and to Oakland, too.

I'm not one to quote the egomanical idiot (Terrell Owens) too often but "They just handed us an old fashion butt whoopin'".... "It's really a shameful way to end it.."  *Squee*

I've been an avid supporter of McNabb, not so much of Reid.  I just don't get why he doesn't see that we need the balance of running and passing, just befuddled me all damn season.  Look at the last 4 games... 3 of the 4 we had balanced games, the one game there was no running balance, we lost.  How much more clear can it be?  I just really wish McNabb would look beyond the "Boo Birds", he was voted the best quarterback - more votes than any other quarterback - for the "All Time" team last year, I sure hope he looks at that.  All this talk of McNabb leaving Philly ..... should just stop.

So what about the "golden boy" Romo?  The guy they spent what 8 million a year on?  Third year in a row now, Romo's flubbed up the Cowboys in the playoffs!  Remember the Seattle vs. Cowboys flub (pictured here on the right), this game ranks right up there with that.  It's probably sweeter, cuz our Birds were the ones handing down this flubbed opportunity this time.

Will Romo still be Ownens' "Boy"?  He said in his press time after the game, he told Romo he would be and said he'd still shed tears for him.  Do I believe that, Hell No!  In a month or two he's going to be calling for Wade Phillips' and Romo's heads.

Now we're on the way to the playoffs, it's just another game, but is it?  Well, we are playing the Vikings, and our old Offensive Coordinator Brad Childress.  Rule the Eagles out?  Don't think I will, at all!