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Dear Dallas Cowboys Fans, As a die hard Philadelphia Eagles fan, I have been in countless arguments with you so-called die hard fans...

Dear Dallas Cowboys Fans...

by Bryn Swartz (Senior Writer)

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Opinion

October 01, 2008


Dear Dallas Cowboys Fans,

 

As a die hard Philadelphia Eagles fan, I have been in countless arguments with you so-called die hard fans. I have heard from every Cowboys fan who has ever lived that you guys are the greatest team in the history of professional sports.

 

You have won five Super Bowl rings and that makes you the best team in NFL history.

 

Never mind the fact that two other teams have won five Super Bowl rings, San Francisco and Pittsburgh were never dubbed “America's Team.” Therefore, Dallas's Super Bowl wins are slightly better than those of the Steelers or the 49ers. And the fact that you have also lost three Super Bowls? You're just so much greater because you appeared in eight Super Bowls.

 

San Francisco never appeared in eight Super Bowls. They're only five-for-five in the big game. Pittsburgh never appeared in eight Super Bowls, they only made it six times and their one loss was to big bad Dallas.

 

Who cares that Dallas lost to Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl twice in four seasons? That just adds to the fact that Dallas has 'been there' more times than any team ever.

 

But what you Cowboys fans have failed to realize over and over and over again is that football is NOT ABOUT THE PAST.

 

Baseball is about the past. Baseball is a sport where history is cherished and revered and relived over and over again. New York Yankees fans always will have bragging rights because they won 26 world championships. It doesn't matter if the Yankees miss the playoff for the next 50 years. No team will be able to hold anything over the Yankees.

 

But football is not a sport about the past.

 

Football is a sport about the present day. Nobody cares who the 1976 NFL MVP was. Nobody cares who the best offensive tackle from the 1980s was. Nobody knows who players like Len Dawson are. Because people just don't care. They don't want to talk about football history. Why do you think authors can't sell books on football history? It doesn't interest anyone. People care about what is happening in the game RIGHT NOW!

 

And guess what? In the present time period, you have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

 

No Cowboys fan under the age of 18 can vividly recall a Dallas playoff victory in his or her lifetime. Not one. You guys haven't won a playoff game since 1996. I repeat, you have not won a single playoff game since 1996. You have lost SIX STRAIGHT PLAYOFF GAMES. Six straight playoff games.

 

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  1. Craig Swartz 9 months ago

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! One of the funniest articles I've ever read! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Bryn, you're a genius.

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  2. Marty Ogelvie 9 months ago

    Bryn,
    Either the NFL is about history or its not. You can't start your article off by telling readers that NFL fans do NOT care about history, which is valid, and then spend the rest of the article talking about the history of the Dallas Cowboys. That's just lame!

    You could have saved your readers and yourself a lot of time by simply stating the facts. You hate the Dallas Cowboys. Easy enough.

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      Football is about RECENT history. People care about what players on their team have done in RECENT seasons. 30 years ago is irrelevant but 5 or 10 years ago is not. People care about that.

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    • James Williamson 9 months ago

      And the facts are that the Eagles have done nothing with their franchise in the last 40 years except blow two Super Bowls

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  3. Orlando Morales 9 months ago

    hhahahaha i agree with Marty about the order of your article. But that really made my day better reading all of Dallas' failures in the past 12 years. Go Birds and keep writing man.....E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!

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  4. TexasCowboy 9 months ago

    Marty of course the NFL is about history which is why she can't stand it because she knows that the only history the E-Girls bring to this division is a losing one, while everyone else went on to become a muilti super bowl winning franchise

    this is what drives the typical alcoholic e-girl fan insane, they are a laughing stock and every time one of they're pathetic fans opens their mouth (like this clown) it's a testiment to just how bitter and angry
    they are that they suck to the point that they can't even have a winning record against any of the opponents they face in the NFC East

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  5. TexasCowboy 9 months ago

    Funny huh that no matter what way you morons spin it Dallas all ways remains better than you aint that a bitch?

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    • Eric Quackenbush 9 months ago

      Well, in the Eagles recent SB loss, the Pats were cheating, so even though yes, a loss is a loss; had New England not cheated, maybe the outcome would have been different? Thought to consider anyway.

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  6. John Smith 9 months ago

    If only Eli had Romo's talent, maybe the Giants would have won the Superbowl last year and every game they've played this season like the Cowboys have. Oh wait....

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  7. Craig Henry 9 months ago

    Dear brainiac, it takes skill to make it to a Super Bowl (just ask the Buffalo Bills) whether you win one or not. The Cowboys have been to eight in two different eras, which, in fact, makes this a unique achievement that NO ONE ELSE CAN CLAIM. Therefore you are mistaken, incorrect, WRONG. Get your facts straight if you want to play with the big boys again, Mr. Mental Midget!

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      How am I mistaken? I gave you credit for 8 Super Bowl appearances. Where are my facts wrong?

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    • Cody Swartz 9 months ago

      You have got to be a freaking retard... Where in this article did the writer ever state that the Cowboys didn't make eight Super Bowls? He actually went out of his way to give them credit for making eight... Maybe you could go back and re-read the article... Or just do the world a favor and deactivate your Bleacher Report account...

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  8. TexasCowboy 9 months ago

    Now that is some funny **** right there awesome reply Craig and let me guess you are a Cowboys fan?

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  9. Craig Swartz 9 months ago

    Hey all you cowgirl fans with all your scathing comments you STILL haven't won a playoff game in the last 12 years!

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  10. David Nope 9 months ago

    Here's one for you. Dallas hasn't won a play off game in 12 years yet we are still the most valuable team in the NFL. So have fun with your unwinnable argument while we continue to post more recording setting ratings.

    You don't get to be America's Team by whinning. You get there by being an innovative franchise that improves not only your team but the league itself. Its more than wins and loses its a business too. But being at the top of the league in wins and appearances certainly doesn't hurt.

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      Well, if it's ratings you care about, go for it. Bandwagon fans really help the ratings.

      Personally, I care about wins.

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    • David Nope 9 months ago

      @ Bryn: Then it must be tough being a Eagles fan.

      Here is the deal. I can understand why people point out teams like Pitts, San Fran and the Pats. They are all certainly top tier teams along with the Cowboys. From there you can argue who's the greatest till you turn blue.

      Phily is not a top tier team. Hell of a drunken fan base that is very loyal but no super bowl no bragging. Never seen a QB quit in the big game till I say ya'lls superbowl.

      Keep hatin Philly. Its what you do best.

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    • James Williamson 9 months ago

      And the fact that we had Captain America as our QB in the 70s

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      I don't get your point. Pittsburgh, the 49ers, Dallas, and the Patriots would have about one-third the fans if they didn't have a combined 18 Super Bowl rings. The Patriots had no fans ten years ago. But start winning and you get fans.

      My point is that the Eagles have as many or almost as many fans as you have and we've never won a Super Bowl, so there's no bandwagons fans among us.

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  11. James Williamson 9 months ago

    We'll keep running our mouth espceially since we beat you two weeks ago. And then you lose to the Bears. How do u explain that? Oh and no cussing either.

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  12. Eric Quackenbush 9 months ago

    Man, you guys are brutal, lol.

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  13. J 9 months ago

    As a Cowboy fan, how am I supposed to respond to this? Is EVERY single Cowboy follower a bandwagon fan? Harsh generalization. The Eagles have had more success than the Cowboys this decade. The Eagles have playoff wins and one appearance in the super bowl. The Eagles have quite a few NFC East titles as well. That is a great amount of success. It's unfortunate they couldn't finish off the job and win a super bowl.

    You come across as a jerk, no wonder some people have taken exception to the column. Don't portray all Cowboy fans as the same, because we are not. Cowboy fans can't debate sports without cursing like crazy? Jeez, what's with all these generalizations man?

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      Nope. You're not all bandwagon fans. But I feel that a great majority of players became fans when Dallas was hot in the early 1990's or the 1970's. When you ask somebody how they became a Cowboys fan and they respond by telling you that they became a fan when they went to all of the Super Bowls, I consider that to be a bandwagon fan. Even if you stick with the Cowboys, you're originally a bandwagon fan. So not all of you guys are bandwagon fans. But the Eagles have virtually no bandwagon fans, because we've never had enough success to generate bandwagon fans. All of our fans are legit.

      And my cursing reference was to one particular fan. Notice that it is a response to a comment. Although I do feel that a lot of you guys have no stats to brag about in the past ten years so you resort to cursing and think that's a good comeback.

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      Try to not be quite so sensitive. Football is a game. This wasn't a direct attack on you. Just Cowboys fans, which I'm assuming you are.

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  14. Gregory Thomas 9 months ago

    yea! GO NINERS!!!

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  15. Michoel Botwinick 9 months ago

    Excellent!! Well said! These deprived Cowbutt fans need to stop running their swearing motor mouths, and actually WIN a playoff game, when it matters most.

    E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES!!!!

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  1. Marty Ogelvie 9 months ago

    Bryn,
    Thanks for clarifying your position about history and relevance. I agree that fans of teams with little or no history of winning do not CARE about NFL history but fans of teams with a rich history of winning take great pride in their teams winning history, why wouldn't they?

    I guess I qualify as a Bandwagon fan, I starting rooting for the Cowboys shortly after the 1975 'Hail Mary' game. Unless your rooting for a home team, which I didn't have growing up, then your eventually going to jump on some teams bandwagon. I don't have a problem with that, its the fans who jump off one bandwagon and onto another bandwagon every few years that get on under my skin. Pick a team and stick with them, chances are you will eventually be rewarded for your loyalty. I have NEVER rooted for any team other than the Cowboys since 1975.

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  2. Jared Lilly 9 months ago

    What you refer to as Superbowl losses, can also be referred to as conference championships.
    My thing is, yes Romo lost the Seattle game in the 06 divisional round game, because of the oh so infamous botched snap.

    but Romo didnt lose the 07 game against the Giants, the Cowboys did, even though I'm a hereditary Cowboys fan, I've been one my whole life, and will admit that the Cowboys lost that one.

    but so many people say "Romo lost this...." and "Romo lost that..." his record is 22-8 as a starter. is that not a winner?

    his playoff loss in seattle was only his 9th game starting, and last year was his first full season starting, correct if I'm wrong but i believe a lack of starting experience played a role in that.

    I believe this year is the "show me what you got here", we know Romo is a great quarterback, but is he who you want during crunch time, this year should answer that.

    as far as the credibility of the franchisse, of course, 5 superbowl wins has been tied by the steelers and he 49ers, but those 3 "superbowl losses" are also credited as conference championships, so not only are they tied for most superbowls, but they stand alone as #1 with 8 conference championships.

    and what have they done recently? even though our playoffs have lacked, we have something to cheer for again. our team is contenders again. I was young during the 90's and wasn't even thought of in the 70's, the golden ages of the cowboys, now I can watch my team win and produce wins on the field, which until Romo took charge, i had yet to experience. there is hope for the playoffs, i dont have to go to school sporting my dallas jersey and hear about the the team thats below .500, i go to school and can be proud of our minimal number of recent losses, especially since i live in SE virginia, so im surrounded by steelers, skins, eagles, panthers, and other anti-dallas teams.

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    • Jared Lilly 9 months ago

      and i just noticed i repeated the conference champs thing, my bad.

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      I don't care who lost the Giants game, Romo or the team. I don't care if he's a 14-year veteran or if it's his first game. The Eagles won a playoff game with an over-the-hill, or so we thought, veteran in 2006.

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    • Jared Lilly 9 months ago

      well as long as we're on the topic of the past, when is the last time the Eagles won a Superbowl?
      oh yeah, they haven't. it don't matter how many playoff games you win if you can't win it all. and im talking since the NFL and AFL combined, Superbowls, not NFL championships, because now thats the equivalent as a conference championship.

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  3. ty kanouff 9 months ago

    Go bryn

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  4. Troy Aikman 9 months ago

    Bryn? Isn't that a chicks name? Face the facts little girl; the Cowboys are America's team and we've won the big game more times than your sorry Eagles have ever been. We were the first team to 5 Super Bowl victories and we'll be the first team to number 6, 7, 8 (you get the picture). Little girl maybe you should stick to playing with dolls instead of bashing a proven winner.

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      You looking for Romo to lead you to those victories or are you and Emmitt checking out of the retirement home and doing it yourself?

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    • Cody Swartz 9 months ago

      Hey Troy,

      Just wanted to let you know that the author's name is entirely irrelevant to the article. Try and stay focused here ok? And the author made sure to credit your team for their five Super Bowls, but there is no denying your recent postseason struggles. The Dallas Cowboys have been an embarrassment in the playoffs. A joke. And I hope those concussions are treating you well these days...

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      Hey Cody, it's ok. This is how Cowboys fans are. Troy would rather attack me personally even though he doesn't know me. Why focus on the article or facts in the article? Let's go straight for the author!

      And you know Troy, I've always hated you a lot less than the other Cowboys quarterbacks over the years.

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    • Christian Karcole 5 months ago

      Bryn, come on, that's not Troy Aikmen. You realize that, right? If it was, BR would have said something about it and he would not be talking like a little girl. Don't believe everything you see.

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    • Bryn Swartz 5 months ago

      We can't really prove whether it is or isn't so I'll choose to believe it was. No harm done either way. He made one comment and never came back on the site. This site is rising in popularity and Bleacher Report wouldn't have done anything if nobody flagged it, and I didn't. I didn't even realize the last name until I clicked his profile.

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    • Christian Karcole 5 months ago

      What I meant is that BR would have said something that he made a profile like they usually do. It wasn't him. 99% sure. Aikman wouldn't talk like that. And that's not Favre's wife either, on your other article.

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    • Bryn Swartz 5 months ago

      Thank you for the clairification. I feel much better now.

      Neither of us can prove it. I'm probably going to continue believing that it is. I would rather take the optimistic approach than the pessimistic approach.

      It's not like I ate dinner with them. They commented on an article.

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    • Sayre Bedinger 5 months ago

      Haha, Bryn, if you really think that is Troy Aikman I'm going to have to stop taking you seriously from now on. Ever heard of Trolls? They are cowards who bash on articles while using an alias that usually relates to the team they support.

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  5. Jared High 9 months ago

    I was at that game and I couldn't have cheered loud enough when we broke that coke addicts neck. (yeah that's right I went there)

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  6. Bill Matz 9 months ago

    Who cares about those 5 previous rings? Does old-ass Jerry Jones or the state of Texas, which in my opinion should be handed back to the Mexicans in order to make the United States a more civi and intelligent nation, throw a parade every year for Super Bowls that most of the team's fans (especially the ones writing comments here) cannot remember? Maybe it's different in "Dallas" (they don't actually play in Dallas), but I would rather celebrate victories that are happening now, playoff berths and runs that are happening now, championship opportunities that are happening now, than brag about a bunch of stories that my father and grandfather told me.
    But since Cowbitch fans love to bring up the past I can do that as well. It is absolutely ridiculous to claim that the Eagles have been a laughing stock of the NFL and the NFC East, as even when other teams in the division were winning championships, they would still lose games to Philadelphia. By the end of the 1940s the Eagles appeared in three consecutive NFL Championship games. Out of these, the Eagles won two, including consecutive shutouts of the Chicago Cardinals and Los Angeles Rams in 1948 and 1949 respectively. To date, the Eagles are the only team to have ever won back to back championships by shutout. The 1960 NFL Championship against Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers was another historical victory, as Chuck Bednarik and gang handed Lombardi the only playoff loss of his career. In the current decade, under coach Andy Reid, The Eagles have appeard in 4 NFC Championships and a Super Bowl. They've dominated the NFC East, winning the division 5 times, and posting 8 playoff victories. In that same time the Dallas Cowboys have lost every playoff game they have played and posted a well below .500 record against the "laughing stock" Philadelphia Eagles.

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  7. Michael 9 months ago

    Eagles don't win superbowls.. I bet you miss the arizona cardinals

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  8. James Williamson 9 months ago

    This is the kind of crap I can't stand. Haters cussing and wishing harm on good players for the simple reason of a football game.

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  9. Nick Lowry 9 months ago

    bryn i think you should change the title to "ode to the most overated team in the nfl"
    P.S. E.A.G.L.E.S EAGLES

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  10. TexasCowboy 9 months ago

    To all the Cowboys fans who replied to these clowns please listen, we have never needed to win a post
    season game in order to prove we are better then the competition, that is why the Cowboys and all the
    the rest of the NFC East have mulitple Lombardi titles and the Girls have none, because in the end that
    is what makes us far more superior then a disenfranchised bunch of whinning pathetic losers who can't
    hang their hat on anything except losing

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    • Bryn Swartz 9 months ago

      You're right. Postseason wins are overrated. You guys had the best record in the NFC last year. Focus on that if it makes you happy.

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  11. TexasCowboy 9 months ago

    What I will focus on is getting back what is rightfully ours and that is the Vince Lombardi title while you can focus on the media whore delusion that winning a playoff game, is what makes you a winner

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    • Bill Matz 9 months ago

      you do realize that you need to win playoff games in order to get back "what is rightfully yours" right? Unless that's why Jerry Jones has stock piled players like Adam Jones and Tank Johnson, because he plans to win the East, lose in the first round and steal the Lombardi trophy in the middle of the night. I guess that would make the most sense. Certainly not that "media whore delusion" that to win a championship you have to win playoff games. That's just pure insanity. I bet not even Al Davis believes that nonsense.

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  12. Pete Treperinas 9 months ago

    Let the hate flow brother. I'm rootin' for the Eagles in the East.

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  13. TexasCowboy 9 months ago

    The eagles suck nuff said

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  14. TexasCowboy 9 months ago

    Insult? try the truth

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  15. Bill Matz 9 months ago

    on the subject of not counting an NFL championship before the super bowl because it's the same as a conference championship now, you couldn't be more wrong. It was a CHAMPIONSHIP. in the days of the NFL and AFL there were 2 different leagues and there was no idea of combining them until the Super Bowl and eventual merger (meaning no inter-league play as there is now). Not counting an NFL Championship would be like not counting any Super Bowl prior to final expansion, which is not yet complete, or not counting the Giants Super Bowl because they haven't played and beaten Saskatchewan, the CFL champions, or the Philly Soul, the arena league champions.

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  1. Isaac Barrow 5 months ago

    Bryn I normally like your stuff

    But this is ridiculous. You talk about how the Cowboys lost to the Skins at home. And the Eagles didn't? And yes, the Cowboys haven't won a playoff game in 12 years. But have the Eagles won a Super Bowl in 12 years? Or 50 for that matter? I'm not debating who's better, they are pretty even in my opinion, but this isn't the way to handle it. Like every time the Eagles have a nice win, you seem to come out with some article about how the Eagles are gonna cruise to SB XLIII. But when a tough loss happens (or tie), it's over.

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    • Bryn Swartz 5 months ago

      Isaac,

      Are you aware that this article was written on October 1st, 2008? That's three months and two weeks ago.

      This was written after 2 straight losses. I don't know what you're talking about. This has nothing to do with the current playoff situation or anything.

      This has nothing to do with the Philadelphia Eagles at all. I've never said we're going to cruise to the Super Bowl or anything. If you're going to write something, make sure it's correct.

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    • Isaac Barrow 5 months ago

      I know it's old. But this is the first time I read it. And saying you're not sorry for clapping when irvin got a concussion is wrong. And you wrote articles

      "Why the Eagles will beat the Cardinals to go the SB"
      "This team is going to the playoffs"
      "Eagles you saved my christmas"
      "Eagles you ruined my christmas"

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    • Bryn Swartz 5 months ago

      I don't remember Irvin getting a concussion. That was 10 years ago.

      So you have an issue with my preview/prediction article for this week?
      The one where I correctly predicted us to go to the Christmas?
      My joy after we made the playoffs?
      My rant after we almost got eliminated from the playoffs?

      It was an up and down season. My opinions changed a lot.

      I can understand constructive criticism. But let me write what I want to write. You don't have to police my stuff.

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    • Isaac Barrow 5 months ago

      No Bryn I usually LOVE your stuff and you're like my second favorite. I'm not policing.

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  2. Jameson Fleming 5 months ago

    While I do agree the NFL is more about recent history than the complete past, that argument doesn't help you because the Eagles still haven't won a Super Bowl. Granted they've got NFL Championships way back in the day, the Eagles still haven't won the big one. This nice run they've got going over the past eight years has been fun but it still hasn't delivered a Super Bowl and that's what matters most.

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  3. Cody Swartz 5 months ago

    I find it amusing that this article was written back in October and yet the Cowboys continued their tradition of handing away the big games in December.

    No, the Eagles didn't win the Super Bowl. Spare me, Dallas haters. At least we won two playoff games. And 44-6. Wow.

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  4. Leo Hayes 5 months ago

    Look the point Bryn is trying to make is not that any one team is better than Dallas (though I'm sure he believes it). His point is that Dallas is not the best team.

    That might be hard to follow.

    He isn't directly comparing any one franchise to the Cowboys and saying why that one franchise is better. Instead he is saying that the Cowboys cannot be considered the greatest any more because they haven't done anything relevant in over a decade.

    I'm sure there was a time that the Cowboys could have been considered the greatest team. That time is not now.

    12 Lombardi trophies have been handed out since the Cowboys have won a playoff game. That puts them out of the discussion for greatest teams right now.

    To effectively argue against his point you would need to explain why the Cowboys are better than say the Patriots in the past decade. You can't huh... Well that means you aren't the best team playing right now.

    Oh and if you want to fall back on history my Steelers are in position to be the first to six. We also would have had only one fewer Championship game win than you. So if you want to argue history you really don't have a solid argument on why you are better than the Steelers.

    Or 49ers for that matter because as it stands if my Steelers lose they are still the greatest franchise historically with a perfect 5-5 in Superbowls.

    Championship games that don't turn into Lombardi Trophies are failures. Congratulations you have failed more than any of the other teams considered historically great.

    Good work Bryn, stumbled upon it too late to give it POTD, but would have.

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    • Bryn Swartz 5 months ago

      Leo, you get a new fan for that comment. Absolutely awesome.

      And remember who won in the Pennsylvania Super Bowl....even though that won't help us now.

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