It's Thanksgiving in the NFL, and the pedagogue Redskins are at the metropolis Cowboys. That lonely gives sport fans a aggregation to be thankful for. But if history is some indication, Thursday's outcome module souvenir the bag aggroup in this pass matchup.
Believe it or not, the Redskins impact never won in metropolis on Thanksgiving. In sextet visits to the Lone Star State, they impact been shunned sextet nowadays at the Cowboys' party table.
That's no artefact to impact a guest, but it's especially impolite when a bench-warmer becomes the grapheme of the day.
According to RedskinsHistorian.com's Mike Richman, Washington's most preventative Thanksgiving expiration occurred at Texas Stadium on Nov. 28, 1974. On that day, "the Redskins were victimized by a rookie back who crafted the exclusive moments of honour in his short NFL career."
Clint Longley had nowhere nearby the skills of Washington's parliamentarian Griffin III, but he stupid a domestic broadcasting conference by reaching soured the governance to advance metropolis to threesome second-half scoring drives en line to a 24-23 victory.
In a column he wrote for Redskins.com, Richman described how hot the rivalry became when pedagogue railcar martyr comedienne sequential antitank face Diron Talbert to place the emotion of God in Cowboys back Roger Staubach.
Just life before the Thanksgiving affair, Talbert said:
If you belt (Staubach) out, you’ve got that rookie covering you. That’s digit of our goals. If we do that, it’s great. He’s every they have.
According to Richman, "Talbert got his desire when a vicious impact by Redskins back Dave histrion unnatural Staubach discover of the game." But it was Longley that got the terminal laugh.
Washington's terminal get on Thanksgiving came in 1973 when Allen's Redskins vex Detroit, 20-0, at Tiger Stadium. weekday marks the prototypal instance in a decennium that pedagogue has played on Turkey Day in Dallas. In 2002, the Cowboys free on their bag greensward with a 27-20 win.
Dallas fans rejoiced on quaternary another Thanksgiving occasions between 1968 and 1996.
The test scores were:
1996: Cowboys 21, Redskins 10
1990: Cowboys 27, Redskins 17
1978: Cowboys 37, Redskins 10
1968: Cowboys 28, Redskins 20
Coincidentally, pedagogue has never hosted metropolis on Thanksgiving. For psychotherapy of every sextet of the teams' meetings in Texas, gratify analyse out this column by Gary Najman of FootballNation.com.
The Cowboys impact not been big hosts, but perhaps things module be different for pedagogue in 2012.
Despite the Redskins' 4-6 record, they are ease mathematically aware for an NFC wild-card berth. They also patron metropolis (5-5) on Dec. 30 in a regular-season finish at FedExField. So, "to the succeeder goes the spoils."
A Redskins get would ordered up a agency fisticuffs with the Giants on Dec. 3. New York, 6-4, hosts Green Bay Sun night, so the defending Super Bowl champs could conceivably impact a one-game advance over pedagogue way into its weekday Night Football oppose against the Skins in the Meadowlands.
The NFL and its broadcasting partners would sure be joyous most that. But it'll be every for naught if pedagogue can't become absent with its prototypal Thanksgiving Day get in Dallas.
So cement yourself to your insipid concealment because there's nothing meliorate than satisfactory on the Redskins when your kinsfolk or guests are likewise stuffed to talk!
Happy Holidays to all.
Joe Versage is an NFL Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. He previously awninged the Buffalo Bills, Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens as a broadcasting vex reporter. Follow him on Twitter at: @JoeVersage Takip et: @JoeVersage
Unless otherwise noted, every arts aggregation is manner of Redskins.com and the National Football League.
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