NFL Playoffs running thread

Fox does a quick piece on Cowboys fans hoping for a Super Bowl. One of them says, "If the Cowboys do win the Super Bowl, it would alleviate a lot of the pain of the last 20 years."
From an Eagles fan, and I'm sure co-signed by fans of about 15 other teams, fuck these fucking assholes. Twenty-two years isn't nearly long enough. Cowboys fans are like those cicadas that burrow into the ground, emerge about once a decade, and annoy you with their incessant chirping for a few weeks.

 

Troy Aikman and Joe Buck. The stubble brothers.

 

0-4 vs. Colts in playoff games.

Go Indy!

 

That was bad

 

Yeah, next we'll hear about poor deprived 49er fans hoping for a taste of blessed victory before they die.

 

Comparisons to the Theismann injury get thrown around way too often. That one will forever be on the Mount Rushmore of gruesome sports injuries. This one's at least a hall of fame contender, though.

 

Not having a kicker oddly helped Seattle on that drive. More inventive and strategic playcalling knowing they had four downs to get first downs and a 2-point conversion that will likely force Dallas to score a touchdown.

 

That was an obscenely good throw and catch for Seattle.

 

To be fair to Cowboys fans (it's hard), a 20-year title drought is the longest in franchise history. The previous long was 15 years. Hate to tell them, it's not happening this year either.

 

They're also one of only three NFC teams in that 22-year span (Lions and Redskins are the others) that haven't been to the conference championship game. In a conference that has defined parity over the past 20 years, they've had quite the delicious run of mediocrity.
Even so, they have so much history that other franchises don't that it's ludicrous to talk about the pain of a 20-year drought. Especially when one of the teams in your own division is approaching 30 years of even worse futility and another just ended a 50-year run of frustration.

 

My weird theory that your punter should always be able to placekick at least a high school kicker level was validated tonight.

Hell, I’d think about using a roster spot for a back-up kicker in a playoff situation.