Schedule gripe regarding Cowboys game

[Longtimefan]

I'm glad that this year for the first time I can remember, we will have played both games with them before Thanksgiving. We won't have a meaningful game (by that I mean a game that could determine a playoff spot) late in the season in Dallas. Through the years though it has always seemed one way or another there's some form of disadvantage when it comes to playing them. I'm always reminded of when they first came in the league I could never understand how they got to be in the NFC east anyway, but that's for another discussion.

[djnemo65]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

I'm glad that this year for the first time I can remember, we will have played both games with them before Thanksgiving. We won't have a meaningful game (by that I mean a game that could determine a playoff spot) late in the season in Dallas. Through the years though it has always seemed one way or another there's some form of disadvantage when it comes to playing them. I'm always reminded of when they first came in the league I could never understand how they got to be in the NFC east anyway, but that's for another discussion.

Even though it doesnt make much geographical sense, thank god the league did put them in the nfl east, or else sports would have been robbed of one of its most compelling rivalries.

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

Even though it doesnt make much geographical sense, thank god the league did put them in the nfl east, or else sports would have been robbed of one of its most compelling rivalries.

What's interesting is how the league came to the decision to put them in the NFC east origionally. In 1960 there were conspiracy theories involving top Dallas officials along with former comissioner Pete Rozelle to put Dallas in the NFC east because in so doing at the time felt it would give them the best opportunity to be successful. Tex Schramm who headed the Cowboys at the time had hired Pete Rozelle as his PR man in LA before moving to Texas. The stage had been set for Dallas to become a league darling, and it continued up to the point where they have been refered to as "America's Team". They were an interesting group from the time they entered the league because they were playing computerized football in 1960. However, their games with the Redskins were just an afterthought until George Allen arrived and the true rivalry began.