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To: accountclosed who wrote (62087)	9/15/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: MythMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

who, the hokies?

To: accountclosed who wrote (62087)	9/15/1999 4:39:00 PM
From: John Pitera	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

you should get your butt up to the big city and see the mighty 'Skins in action , the game against dallas this weekend was one of the best I have seen. and Jerry Jones called it the best Cowboy's comeback ever. September 13, 1999, 01:17 a.m. Cowboys give selves reasons to believe By FRAN BLINEBURY LANDOVER, Md. -- With just more than four minutes gone in overtime, Emmitt Smith lowered his head and plowed straight into the line, Troy Aikman performed his own nifty bit of sleight-of-hand to sell the ball fake, and Rocket Ismail went right down the middle of the field like a, well, rocket, practically leaving a trail of smoke as he gathered in the pass and zoomed into the end zone. And just like that, it was over. There are NFL games of little worth that cannot end soon enough. There are other games that a football fan would like to see go on forever, not so much for their technical brilliance as the sheer entertainment factor. Dallas and Washington turned Redskins Stadium into a sandlot and turned the latest incarnation of their fevered rivalry into the equivalent of Moe and Curly exchanging two-fingered pokes in the eye. Yet when all of the dropped passes, blown coverages, penalties and missed field goals had faded into the shadows, what remained was an image of a stirring comeback that had the Cowboys trailing by 21 with 12 minutes left in regulation and winning the season opener 41-35. Aikman's 76-yard connection with Ismail was a virtual repeat of the same play -- "132 run it" in the lexicon of the playbook -- tried by the Cowboys late in the first quarter. The only difference was that on the first toss, the ball dropped right through Ismail's hands. You'd think it was January "When we broke out of the huddle there in the overtime, I just told Rocket, `Go get it,' " said Smith. "I knew all I had to do was to make a good fake, and he'd probably be open." "I knew Rocket would be wide-open," said offensive tackle Erik Williams. "He's open on that play every single time we run it in practice. He was open in the first quarter. It was only a matter of whether he'd come down with it." Ismail did, and that set off the kind of out-of-the-back-of-the-end-zone celebration that usually comes with the high-stakes atmosphere of a playoff game. Club owner Jerry Jones called it the greatest comeback in the history of the Cowboys. Aikman said it was the wildest game he'd ever been in. Smith called it inspirational. Michael Irvin said it was like going to war and coming out a survivor. Head coach Chan Gailey called it a character-builder that will pay off even bigger dividends down the line. They are, of course, entitled to all of those opinions. Mostly because these Cowboys, coming off last season's homestretch failure and nose dive into an empty pool in the playoffs, need for those opinions to be true if they are going to compete in a wide-open Super race in the first season of the post-Elway era. Never mind that cornerback Kevin Mathis' frequent brain lock makes Deion Sanders' case of turf toe look like a hangnail. Forget that the Redskins' Stephen Davis ran for 109 yards and journeyman quarterback Brad Johnson threw for 382 yards against the supposedly improved Dallas defense. There was Smith running for 109 yards. There was Irvin catching five passes for 122 passes and two touchdowns, double his TD total from 1998. There was Aikman doing a fourth-quarter Elway impersonation that was as good as or better than anything by Elway himself. And there was Ismail, the trumpeted "speed" receiver on the opposite side of the field who can take defensive pressure off Irvin. He caught eight passes and gained 149 yards. Best not to get too excited yet There might be those who remember another wide receiver who was going to play that role and had an equally impressive debut. In the 1997 season opener at Pittsburgh, Anthony Miller caught two touchdown passes in a 37-7 win and then almost fell off the face of the earth. "I think this is a team that is going to come together because of this win," said Irvin. "We have some veteran guys who know how to win, and we have some younger guys who are looking to be shown the way." It did certainly help that the Redskins were directional arrows themselves for the Cowboys, rolling up a 35-14 advantage early in the fourth quarter and then collapsing like a tepee in a hurricane. Dallas did make plays on defense. And the Cowboys did make a momentum-changing play when rookie Dat Nguyen recovered an onside kick. But there was also some boneheadedness by embattled Redskins coach Norv Turner, who seemed to reach into the Kevin Gilbride toy box of play calling. One possession in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter lasted just 24 seconds and netted three straight incompletions. The Cowboys also benefited when holder Matt Turk fumbled the snap on what could have been a game-winning 41-yard field goal by Washington's Brett Conway at the end of regulation. Yet none of that mattered in the crush of the celebration. Or in the level of the entertainment provided. "It just means we're 1-0," Gailey said. "But it sure feels a lot better." And you have to start somewhere.