Thursday, November 19: Dallas Week On CBS, 1983

In some ways, any rivalry is by definition about nostalgia. It's about the accrual of loathing for a specific opponent over a number of years. Without that -- without the memory of a few heartbreaking losses, a few dominating wins, a few extracurricular events -- you don't have a rivalry at all. You just have what the Redskins used to have with the St. Louis Cardinals when the Cardinals were in the NFC East: a team you play a lot. So here's a bit more Dallas Week nostalgia for you. For me, Pat Summerall will always be the TV play-by-play voice of these games. The NFL On CBS music brings back early '80s NFC games. The vaguely greenish tint of the video reminds me of what the screen picture actually looked like in the days before HDTV.Meaning? This is the intro to a Week 15 game between 12-2 teams who had faced off in the previous year's Conference Championship game. Extracurriculars? The game that follows this intro would end as a 31-10 Redskins win, which would f...