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Eagles Will Stuff the Cowboys on Thanksgiving Like I’m Gonna Stuff My Face with Stouffer’s Mac and Cheese
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Let’s get it back to the EAGLES:
It’s a 4:30 p.m. game on Thanksgiving. That’s the best time slot. You have family dinner in the afternoon, like 3 p.m. or something, then turn on the Birds while melting into your couch. 1 p.m. is too early and 7 or 8 p.m. is too late. Nobody needs to be sitting around all day, excruciatingly waiting for the game to begin. What are you supposed to do with all that time anyway, talk to your family?
The Cowboys are 34-22-1 on Thanksgiving and on a three-game, paper tiger type of win streak. Last year, they beat a lame duck Kansas City team to improve to 6-5-1, then lost four of five to finish 7-9-1. The year prior, they beat the useless Giants on Thanksgiving with Cooper Rush to get to 5-7, then finished 7-10. And before that, they beat a Commies team that won four games.
So this will be a real challenge for them, finally. Gotta go down to their stupid building, of course, but the Eagles are 2-0 all-time against the Cowboys on Thanksgiving, with wins in 1989 and 2014. The first one was Bounty Bowl I, a 27-0 victory in which Jimmy Johnson alleged Buddy Ryan told his guys to go after Troy Aikman and kicker Luis Zendejas. The second game was a 33-10 win for the Birds in Chip Kelly’s second year. Shady McCoy ran for 159 yards and a score, Chris Polk added 49 yards on 11 carries, and Tony Romo threw two picks while being sacked four times.
GO BIRDS
EDIT- your mom makes real mac and cheese and doesn’t get it from a box? OOOOOOOHHH GOOOD FOR YOU
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com