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Big Ben68 said 08/18, 09:54 PM
You know EXACTLY who I'm going with: the Cowboys and the Redskins. Each game has a playoff atmosphere. I don't know about YOU as a Redskins fan, but me, I CAN'T wait for those two games to roll around. I watch every game, but I watch THOSE games even closer. If you look at each team: both are steeped in tradition, championships, and Hall of Fame players. Riggins, Irvin, Baugh, Aikman, just to name a few. These teams come together twice a year to show absolute disdain for one another and play some VERY smash-mouth football. When a fan starts talking smack, BOTH sides jump up to help their fellow fan. You see it ALL the time on FanNation. The rivalry of the Cowboys and Redskins, though not quite as old as the oldest rivalry EVER in the NFL, it still surpasses it. It beats it by light years. Of all the teams, the only team to have a lot of success is the Bears, but the Redskins and Cowboys are BOTH gearing up for big time years. Young QBs on both teams; both are looking to prove something. You have one of the best offensive lines in the game today with the Redskins and a devastating pass rush from the Cowboys. Young stars are budding from both teams.

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Big Ben68 said 08/18, 10:36 PM
I'm still trying to figure out what those REALLY have to do with the rivalry besides Charles Martin's Hit List and Halas' suspension of the Packers. The rest are just things that happen like a shutout. The Cowboys and Redskins have had plenty of high scoring AND low scoring games. Even games that come down to the wire much like this past year's second game in Washington. If you watched that game, it was a tug of war the ENTIRE game and ended on the final play on a blocked field goal. I???ll tell you up front: I gave this throwdown an objective look and only a few came to my mind, but NONE could top the greatest NFL rivalry ever in the Cowboys and Redskins. In the 70s, 80s, and 90s these teams DOMINATED the competition and made a combined 13 Super Bowl appearances and combined came away with 8 trophies. During those years when they would meet in the regular season it was like a clash of the titans. Now look at the Bears-Packers: The Bears have TWO Super Bowl appearances and are 1-1 while the Packers have 4 appearances and come away 3-1.

Compare those records:

Redskins-Cowboys: 8-5
Bears-Packers: 4-2.

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Big Ben68 said 08/22, 06:19 PM
BUT, when looking at a rivalry you have to see when two things match up. Meat Packers and Grizzly Bears don't/didn't do battle often whereas Cowboys and Indians do/did (old west). That's just a side point, but the the thing here is that the Redskins and Cowboys are, quite possibly, two of the GREATEST teams in NFL history in terms of championships and on field success as well as Hall of Famers. The Bears and Packers are great when it comes to those same things (especially the Pack), but the Bears haven???t been QUITE as lucky. They have HOFers, great seasons, BUT only a single championship. Again, compare that. There is also ALOT of hype when it surrounds Cowboys-Redskins games, while Packers-Bears games aren???t too big time because neither team was great at the same time. When the Packers had success the Bears were declining and vice-versa. In many a season, the Cowboys and Redskins play at least one prime time game whereas the Packers and Bears usually play day time games or late afternoon games.

Well, that???s about ALL I have and I need A LOT of votes to win???