Dallas Cowboys Can Learn From Super Bowl XLV Defenses Even Before Kickoff

February 4, 2011   ·   Christian Blood   ·   Jump to comments

I love how irony comes into play so often in the NFL.
Not half a year going backward, many Dallas Cowboys fans really thought that America’s Team would become the first team to play a Super Bowl in its own stadium and blah, blah, blah. I was not one of them and for two reasons.
First of all, no team has done it before. Why would we break tradition now?
Second, the Cowboys are not built to win a championship, but rather to win numerous games, at least prior to 2010 and probably lose anything that matches them up against a physical team built well in the trenches.
Don’t get me wrong, I would not have been shocked had the Cowboys reached the big game, but probably closer to that had they actually won it.
So forget the old, old animosity toward the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers, this year's participants in the Big Show at Jerry World. The “Ice Bowl” at Lambeau Field was over 40 years ago and those two losses to the Steelers in Su...

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