Even though I don't understand how the Eagles can get in if the beat the Sowboys, as a Redskin fan, I am rooting for the Eagles because I would rather suck the dead testicle of Jerry Falwell than watch the Cowboy's win.

This is where Sapient and I, mortal enemies(as far as the NFC east is concerned) can find agreement. I'd rather have a 3 way with Joel Olsteen and Pat Robertson than to watch the Cowboys win.

Now before you go giving up your hard earned cash, I a have seen the Cowchips come from a 21 point deficit  to beat my Skins.

I have seen many times where the Sowboys were down only to squek  by a win.

Don't get me wrong, to quote Jack Nickleson, "I'll rip your head off and puke in your dead skull"(NOTE TO ALL READERS, this is purely sarcasim)

I DONT want the Sowboys to win, but if they do, I will be like any other day and just like when the Eagles have beat the Skins. Yea, it sucks, but it is just a game and one team wins and one team loses.

....but 41 to 3   LOL

I just feel for my husband. He appears to have a stroke everytime something goes wrong for our beloved Cowboys. And on that note, I am getting out of the house so I don't have to listen to him scream   

Well, dont feel too bad, my skins lost to the 49rs. Like I said, hope for the best and always keep the paper bags avialable to put over your head when your relitives embarrass you.

 Man, that was sweet! too easy...

          Who cares about the Dallas cow girls and their grassy knoll.  The  Patriots won  eleven games this year and still did not get in the playoffs;   what else could possibly matter.

         EDIT);   I have aspirin and I know how to swallow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm still cringing at the thought of Knowshon Moreno or Matt Stafford having to do pergatory in Detroit...

I got home last night around 11:30, Tracy was up watching TV...I asked him how the game went and he just growled "we didn't deserve to go the playoffs"

I hurried upstairs and went to sleep!

Invent a time machine and go back to ancient Rome.

I like that last picture, he looks like a rabid atheist going after theist logic. WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

 I gotta say, I heard an interview with T.O. yesterday (I think it was recorded after the game.. not sure) where they asked him something like "What was it like seeing Tony {Romo} out there getting beat up and not playing up to the level he expects from himself?  Have you had a chance to talk to him?  How's he taking this loss at the end of what was supposed to be a very promising season?"

T.O.'s response was classic:  "Well, I talked to him, you know, and I was like, listen man... I'm still the same T.O. I've always been cause that's the kind of guy I am.  You know, I got your back, just like I always have.  I'm the kind of guy that when I say I'm gonna have your back, I'm going to have your back.  Cause I'm that kind of guy."

If I could sum up Dallas' issues in one word, I think it would be "Jerry Jones."  Yeah.  I know... you expected me to talk about how T.O. is a cancer.  He is.  And guess who thought it would be a good idea to bring him to the team.  JJ.  Until Jerry decides he wants something else to play with, I don't think Dallas is going to have a real shot.  As Colin Cowherd very eloquently stated after the big game, a football team wins if the football organization is solid.  Solidity starts at the owner, and goes to the front office, the scouts, coaches, and finally, the players.  Dallas has a lot of very good players.

 Actually, some of the conversations you and I have had about various other sites and people are really similar to this.  It's not that T.O. can't catch (although he can certainly drop, too...).  It's that regardless of what he is doing on the field, he just goads people into drama.  If nobody paid any attention to him at all, I don't know what would happen, honestly.

Take this last fiasco.  "My team is ganging up on me so that I don't get the ball enough."  Honestly, the media made that into something, but only because other Cowboys commented on it.  If the whole team had a "no comment" atmosphere about anything T.O. ever said, the media would just have to speculate on his comments alone, and it simply wouldn't be that interesting.  But when you get Romo and Barber and other big names commenting on it, well, then it's news.

Then, turn around two days later and he's complaining that Roy Williams isn't getting the ball enough.   Ordinary sane people should notice that T.O. is just talking to hear himself in the microphone, but they just keep feeding it.  Say what you will about the Patriots, but their habit of never saying shit to anyone about anything sure paid off better than Dallas' "spotlight at any cost" strategy.

I'm very wary of MSNBC tickers, but I think it's true that many aspects of our society are simply not something our little cave man brains are prepared for.  I'm pretty sure you and I have had a conversation about what a "mental illness" is, and how mental states are more like continuums than switches.  I'm not so sure people need to be medicated as much as they need a change of lifestyle.

Put another way, everything is a trade.  If you're going to get ten million dollars out of college to play a sport, have women line up to suck your dick, and hire people to walk around with you and constantly tell you how awesome you are, there's going to be a little cognitive dissonance when your all-too-human foibles turn out to be just as shitty as everyone else's.  If you live in a tiny box and spend all day every day surrounded by millions of people who aren't related to you, working in a job where everyone you meet is another number, you're going to have interpersonal problems.

Ok, for non sports fans that are actually following this line of thought, I found a slightly better interview with McNabb to give you a glimpse of a class act in an interview: http://eagles.fandome.com/video/102744/Donovan-McNabb-on-NFL-Total-Access

To see T.O. in a negative light just look him up on video, he acts like a cocky prick in every single one of them.

You said it yourself.  One out of five people has issues with day to day life.  T.O. is one of the one, and Donovan is one of the four.  To be fair, I wasn't completely clear.  I made that sound like a one to one relationship where anybody who gets ten million dollars and a blow job will turn into an ass.  Obviously that isn't so.  What I mean is that if one out of five people have trouble coping with day to day life, and we put five people in a highly cognitively dissonant situation where they're under constant scrutiny, we shouldn't be surprised when their tendencies towards coping issues get magnified.

Also, it's worth mentioning that T.O. would have the same personality if he was a dishwasher at T.G.I. Fridays.  He would just bitch at his manager that the other employees were ganging up on him to try to take his shifts away.  He just wouldn't make the news, and he wouldn't have girls lined up to suck his dick or a posse to constantly tell him he's awesome.

Hmm... I've just muddied the waters again.  Ok, what I'm saying is that these day to day problems usually seem relatively mild for average folks.  A few of their colleagues are tired of their shit, but they cause no major waves for themselves or anybody else.  Only when we get this unusual spotlight do people go from being a bit of an ass to being a total douche media whore.  The genes express through the environment.  McNabb has always struck me as a very level-headed thoughtful person, and I'm sure that whatever field he might have ended up in, he'd have a reputation for it.  In the NFL, he hardly gets mentioned because of that whole spotlight thing.  He doesn't make news because he just goes about quietly being Donovan.  (Quietly Being Donovan... the next big Indy flick?)

So, before there was the possibility of national fame for catching a football, we simply didn't have many figures like T.O.  Virtually everybody was confined to a much smaller universe, and so never got the chance to be the apple of ESPN's eye and be an international douche.

Kevin,

The Eagles just made a vignette about Dawkins their cover story.  In it you'll learn of his alter ego (weapon x).

http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/multimedia/index.asp?mm_file_id=6606&play_clip=y

warning: he is Christian and speaks in tongues during his pregame ritual

Well Sapient, I am sticking to my word. Next week your Eagles face the Giants to move onto the NFC Championship. I will be rooting for them.

To all reading this, I wouldn't count the Eagles out. I can attest, being that my Skins are in the same division. The can and have won away games countless times withing their division in their history. They have to be even more motivated to do so especially since it is a playoff game.

You can prognosticate games left and right, but defying the odds is not out of the question and does happen in all sports. Considering the heated rivalry between the two, the Eagles winning would not surprise me.