Hey, Cowboys, if You Don't Like the Score, Don't Suck So Bad

I want to make one thing perfectly clear right up front: I am a Bears fan and do not care for the Minnesota Vikings. But I still believe that the anger over the last Vikings TD is misplaced.

Look, I understand that many fans, and even TV studio analyst Terry Bradshaw, think that the Vikings ran up the score on the Cowboys in Sunday's 34-3 blowout. 

But that would be stupid, for the anger is better directed at a Dallas defense that couldn't stop anyone and an offense that continued to shoot itself in the foot.

Whining is for losers, and Cowboys fans aren't losers, they are winners. With such a storied past, it is pathetic to see such a response.

At issue is an insurmountable lead of 27-3 with two minutes remaining in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game. Brett Favre’s 11-yard touchdown pass to Visanthe Shiancoe on fourth-and-three was seen as rubbing salt in the wound for many Cowboys fans. 

“I just thought what happened at the end of the game was disrespectful, and it was classless,” Cowboys linebacker Keith Brooking said after the game. “All the things that are in that category, I’ll throw out to the Vikings organization and whoever is over there calling the plays. It just wasn’t the right thing to do at that time, period.”

When talking about the call Vikings coach Brad Childress mentioned “there are no articles of war.” Wade Phillips said the Vikings are free to call whatever they want. Jerry Jones said he would find it hard to take the competitor out of Favre.

I hate to break it to you, Cowboys fans, but if you don't like the final score, have your defense step up and stop the Vikings. It's as simple as that.

Hey, you have a lot to be proud of in a season where you proved Tony Romo can win in December and in the playoffs.

But you simply weren't as good as Minnesota on this day, and that is what the focus should be on, rather than whether or not Favre should have thrown that pass on fourth down to pad his stats.

"We don't care what Keith Brooking says," Pat Williams said. "He was about to get his ass whupped on our sideline over there. It don't matter. Nobody said anything when they blew out the Eagles [the past two weeks]."

"It's the playoffs. It ain't no regular-season game. If you lose, you go home. We take no pity on them. Do they expect us to? I don't care about no Brooking. He can say whatever he wants to say."

The bottom line is that even if he hadn't thrown that pass, the Vikings would have won in convincing fashion, right? So, who cares and why should it matter?

If it helps motivate the team for next year, so be it. But this year is over, and nothing can change that.

"I thought it was classless," Brooking said. "I thought it was B.S. Granted, we get paid to stop them, but we had zero timeouts left. I didn't think there was any call for that."

Shiancoe laughed after hearing Brooking's comments. "OK, we apologize. I'm sorry. Better?"

If it's any consolation, Cowboys fans, you can root for the Saints next week.