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Contents 1 Plagarism 2 Biased? 3 Thanksgiving Day, 1974 4 1979 season, final game 5 "Hand of God" 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Dallas Cowboys.svg 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Washington Redskins 1000.png 8 Biased Much??

[edit] Plagarism

The introduction to this page is nearly word for word from the Washington Post:

The Redskins and Cowboys have been regular opponents and bitter adversaries since 1960. They have experienced epic battles, nail-biting finishes and divisional and conference championships. Their rivalry over the years has come to be known as one of the greatest in sports.

We need to get that re-written, post-haste. Jennifer 07:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Biased?

Is it just me, or is this biased in favor of the Redskins? It goes into great detail about a season when the Redkins were better, then talks about pranks Cowboys fans pulled. One season and some chickens don't do the rivalry much justice.

I'm a Cowboys fan, and I'm not seeing the bias. Sorry. LoomisSimmons 19:36, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

hello this is very BIASED all it talks about are how "good" they are not it doesnt talk about how the cowboys almost win every time they play or the games that they crem the redskins in GO COWBOYS that guy above this is not a fan

[edit] Thanksgiving Day, 1974

This was the most thrilling of them all, when Clint Longley came off the bench to relieve an injured Roger Staubach, and lead the Cowboys from being behind 16-3 to a 24-23 win. Even Washington fans consider this game to be one of the best in the history of the rivalry. Ironically, 1974 was an off year for Dallas. They finished 8-6, missing the playoffs for the first time since 1965. An eerie follow up to this amazing game is that Longley disappeared almost as quickly as he arrived. Reporters have tried to track him down, but all trails to try to find him lead to blind alleys.

[edit] 1979 season, final game

Cowboys 35 Redskins 34 This was arguably the best game of this entire 4 decade series. The Redskins jumped out to a 17-0 lead. The Cowboys stormed back to take a 21-17 lead. The Redskins then pushed the lead to 34-21 late in the 4th quarter on a long TD run by John Riggins. With just under 4 minutes to play, Roger Staubach began his final assault on his claim to the greatest comeback QB of all time. Roger leads the Cowboys to 2 late TDs giving the Cowboys a 35-34 victory.

[edit] "Hand of God"

Yeah, I'm curious, do Cowboys or Redskins fans actually refer to that game last year as the "Hand of God" game? It seems an anonymous IP added that reference in wherever he could a few months ago, and the only references I could find outside Wikipedia were ones that noticed the game was being referred to as such in Wikipedia. [1] [2] I'm not a Cowboys or Redskins fan, but I've never heard this term used in the media and think it would be prudent to remove it without any verification. Highway99 17:30, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

The Hand of God Game as it pertains to the 2006 game is false. The game is only cited as such by Redskin fans and not by popular media. The original Hand of God pertains the 1966 World Cup Soccer match between England and Argentina. Therefore, that entire phrase has been deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.240.136.80 (talk) 21:20, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Dallas Cowboys.svg

Image:Dallas Cowboys.svg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 05:36, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Washington Redskins 1000.png

Image:Washington Redskins 1000.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:20, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Biased Much??

So they didn't play any worthwhile games in the 80's or 90's?

No mention on the 14-1 record between the two teams from 1997-2002. Probably not, since it was Cowboys who had the better end of that, despite being in a poor state of the franchise.

No mention of the 1999 comeback win from 21 points down in the 4th quarter to win in overtime?

yeah, this article screams BIASED!!!!

I am currently working on History of the Washington Redskins and List of Washington Redskins players, but dont worry, I will work on this article next to make it "less-biased". Jwalte04 (talk) 21:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Furthermore, the chart at the bottom of the page depicts the Redskins in the HOF, yet, the Cowboys HOF section is missing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.240.136.80 (talk) 16:58, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Those are each teams individual templates.Jwalte04 (talk) 20:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

The Hand of God Game as it pertains to the 2006 game is false. The game is only cited as such by Redskin fans and not by popular media. The original Hand of God pertains the 1966 World Cup Soccer match between England and Argentina. Therefore, that entire phrase has been deleted.