Found November 08, 2009 on Gryphon on the Dallas Cowboys:
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By GEOFF MOSHER PHILADELPHIA -- When he jogged onto the Lincoln Financial Field turf for warm-ups on the afternoon of Dec. 28, Eagles cornerback Joselio Hanson sensed despair in his surroundings.The Eagles needed the most improbable chain of upsets around the NFL in the final week of regular-season action to make the playoffs. Heck, they needed an Oakland victory, which alone turned the normally frenetic Linc into the world's largest mortuary."It was kind of dead in warm-ups," he recalled.Then, one by one, fiction turned to fact. Houston had overcome a 10-point deficit to beat Chicago. Oakland, which had won four games all year, upset Tampa Bay. All that stood between the Eagles and the postseason was the Cowboys, and vice versa."It was kind of like it was meant for us to get in," cornerback Sheldon Brown recalled.That afternoon, destiny manifested in the largest victory margin ever over their hated rivals -- a 44-6 triumph over Dallas powered by a 24-point s...
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