1/14/2008

Dave Campo

Cowboys 34, Giants 23 / Last time the Cowboys won a playoff game, Tony Romo was wearing one of these jerseys ... in high school. The last time the Dallas Cowboys won a playoff game, you were paying $1.22 for gas, shouting �Show me the money!� at inappropriate times after watching Jerry Maguire and lamenting the Mavericks� Jim Cleamons era. Four-thousand twenty-nine days down, two to go. Tony Romo was a high-school sophomore when the Cowboys beat the Minnesota Vikings, 40-15, on December 28, 1996. Since then it�s been an 11-year pratfall for America�s Team, from coach Dave Campo to quarterback Quincy Carter to draft pick Dwayne Goodrich. That all ends Sunday. Maybe it�s just me -- yeah, it�s definitely just me -- but I still believe the Cowboys are a better football team than the New York Giants. Regardless of Terrell Owens� ankle and the Jessica Jinx and the perceived December swoon and the bandwagon of buffoons suddenly christening Eli as the second coming of Peyton. The Cowboys don�t need the ancillary advantages of mind games about T.O.�s status, a stadium dressed in white, 40,000 rally towels or performances by Brian McKnight or Neal McCoy. Having the Cowboys be the Cowboys and the Giants be the Giants will be good enough.

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