Talk:Commanders–Cowboys rivalry

Plagarism
The introduction to this page is nearly word for word from the Washington Post:

''The Redskins and Cowboys have been regular opponents and bitter adversaries since 1960. They have experienced epic battles, nail-biting finishes and divisional and conference championships. Their rivalry over the years has come to be known as one of the greatest in sports.''

We need to get that re-written, post-haste. Jennifer 07:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Biased?
Is it just me, or is this biased in favor of the Redskins? It goes into great detail about a season when the Redkins were better, then talks about pranks Cowboys fans pulled. One season and some chickens don't do the rivalry much justice.


 * I'm a Cowboys fan, and I'm not seeing the bias. Sorry. LoomisSimmons 19:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanksgiving Day, 1974
This was the most thrilling of them all, when Clint Longley came off the bench to relieve an injured Roger Staubach, and lead the Cowboys from being behind 16-3 to a 24-23 win. Even Washington fans consider this game to be one of the best in the history of the rivalry. Ironically, 1974 was an off year for Dallas. They finished 8-6, missing the playoffs for the first time since 1965. An eerie follow up to this amazing game is that Longley disappeared almost as quickly as he arrived. Reporters have tried to track him down, but all trails to try to find him lead to blind alleys.

1979 season, final game
Cowboys 35 Redskins 34 This was arguably the best game of this entire 4 decade series. The Redskins jumped out to a 17-0 lead. The Cowboys stormed back to take a 21-17 lead. The Redskins then pushed the lead to 34-21 late in the 4th quarter on a long TD run by John Riggins. With just under 4 minutes to play, Roger Staubach began his final assault on his claim to the greatest comeback QB of all time. Roger leads the Cowboys to 2 late TDs giving the Cowboys a 35-34 victory.

"Hand of God"
Yeah, I'm curious, do Cowboys or Redskins fans actually refer to that game last year as the "Hand of God" game? It seems an anonymous IP added that reference in wherever he could a few months ago, and the only references I could find outside Wikipedia were ones that noticed the game was being referred to as such in Wikipedia. I'm not a Cowboys or Redskins fan, but I've never heard this term used in the media and think it would be prudent to remove it without any verification. Highway99 17:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

The Hand of God Game as it pertains to the 2006 game is false. The game is only cited as such by Redskin fans and not by popular media. The original Hand of God pertains the 1966 World Cup Soccer match between England and Argentina. Therefore, that entire phrase has been deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.240.136.80 (talk) 21:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

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Biased Much??
So they didn't play any worthwhile games in the 80's or 90's?

No mention on the 14-1 record between the two teams from 1997-2002. Probably not, since it was Cowboys who had the better end of that, despite being in a poor state of the franchise.

No mention of the 1999 comeback win from 21 points down in the 4th quarter to win in overtime?

yeah, this article screams BIASED!!!!


 * I am currently working on History of the Washington Redskins and List of Washington Redskins players, but dont worry, I will work on this article next to make it "less-biased". Jwalte04 (talk) 21:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Furthermore, the chart at the bottom of the page depicts the Redskins in the HOF, yet, the Cowboys HOF section is missing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.240.136.80 (talk) 16:58, 9 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Those are each teams individual templates.Jwalte04 (talk) 20:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

The Hand of God Game as it pertains to the 2006 game is false. The game is only cited as such by Redskin fans and not by popular media. The original Hand of God pertains the 1966 World Cup Soccer match between England and Argentina. Therefore, that entire phrase has been deleted.

Greateast Game Ever
According to who?? A Redskin Fan?? DELETE!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.240.136.82 (talk) 22:09, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

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Biased on issue of championships
The Cowboys have 5 Super Bowls. The Redskins only have 3 (and 2 came in strike-shortened seasons so they have nice little astericks next to them.) This article on the sidebar refers to "NFL Championships" intentionally to gloss over the fact that 2 of the Redskins "Championships" occurred before the modern era/Super Bowl in 1937 and 1942. Those are meaningless. Super Bowls are Super Bowls. Championships when there only a handful of teams and only a 1 game post-season is meaningless. Reputable sources do not count those old championships when discussing NFL championships; only Redskins fans do. This is clearly an attempt to suggest there is an equivalence between the two franchises when the Cowboys have 5 legit Super Bowl victories and the Redskins do not.

This should clearly be edited to eliminate this obviously biased listen.

//sidebar changed//

You are correct, the previous championships were won by the Redskins when Dallas was not in existence, and therefore, they share no meaning in the rivalry discussion.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.247.162.235 (talk) 00:30, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Division Championships or NFL Championships won prior to Dallas even being a team are meaningless and have nothing to do with this rivalry. This is about the tenure of the Cowboys-Redkins Rivalry. Any titles one prior to that should not be listed in this comparison. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.42.255.163 (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Vandalism
The second sentence in the lead currently displays as "Sports Illustrated called it the top Andrew Is Gay! NFL rivalry of all time and "one of the greatest in sports."" but when you open the page for editing the sentence "Andrew Is Gay!" is not visible. I don't know how to get rid of this vandalism. --Khajidha (talk) 16:05, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Never mind. After attempting to return this page to the version from before the vandalism, the offending words disappeared even though my edit is not listed in the history. --Khajidha (talk) 16:54, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

New article name?
Now that the Redskins have now officially taken "Washington Football Team" as its name, how should this article be named? Should we go with Dallas–Washington or Cowboys–Washington Football Team? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimania16 (talk • contribs) 17:37, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * All of the NFL rivalry pages feature the team nicknames, not the cities, so "Cowboys" should absolutely remain the same. Plus, a page called "Dallas–Washington rivalry" could be thought of as a rivalry between the two cities rather than their football teams.  I think "Cowboys–Washington Football Team rivalry" is most appropriate, however it is quite long.  "Cowboys–Washington rivalry" could also work.  I would suggest similar naming conventions for Giants–Redskins rivalry and Eagles–Redskins rivalry as well.  Frank Anchor Talk 17:44, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Hot Seat Bench with Team Logos conflict resolution
Instead of constantly reverting or removing this topic. State your case here on why you alone think this needs to be removed. If you have legitimate sources of information to provide as evidence that states this subject is not relevant to this rivalry, please provide them.