Cowboys eliminated from NFL Playoffs
Too bad the Cowboys bumped into Favre last Sunday.
In what turned out to be one of Brett Favre’s greatest performances in postseason play, the ageless one scored four touchdowns, racking up 234 yards while giving up no interceptions in the 34-3 annihilation of the Cowboys in the 2010 NFL playoffs.
Yep, you read it, Brett Favre FINALLY beat the Cowboys in the playoffs as he connected with Sidney Rice not one, not two but THREE times before hooking up with Visanthe Shiancoe for their fourth trip in the endzone to send the ‘Boys packing back home to Texas.
But as good the Minnesota Vikings have been offensively, it was their pass rush that decided the game. Led by the Vikings’ fourth year defensive end Ray Edwards, the Vikings defense pressured Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo all game long, forcing him to commit the same mistakes that made the name Tony Romo infamous during the postseason.
Oh yes, Tony Romo, after beating the Eagles in their wild card match-up to get his first win in a playoff game, was back to his usual form in the postseason. Fresh from his stellar performance against the Eagles back in Texas, where he racked up 244 yards to score two touchdowns, he was virtually no-existent in Minnesota as the Vikings defense forced Romo to commit four turnovers, that’s three fumbles and an interception.
As far as Brett Favre is concerned, he was right on target. He looked motivated to finally beat this Dallas Cowboys team at this time of the year. Hell, the guy was still scoring when the game was already won and you can bet your ass the Cowboys didn’t like it one bit.
Yep, Favre ran up the scoreboard people, well, according to the sore losers from Texas anyway. With less than two minutes left in the game and the Vikings already leading convincingly, 27-3, Favre found his tight end Visanthe Shiancoe for his fourth and final touchdown to stamp their ticket to the 2010 NFC championship game in New Orleans.
Cowboys coach Wade Phillips said the Vikings ran up the score and linebacker Keith Brooking, who sprinted towards the Vikings sideline and taunted Vikings coach Brad Childress after Favre’s fourth touchdown, agreed.
”I thought it was classless,” Keith Brooking said. ”I thought it was B.S. Granted, we get paid to stop them, but we had zero timeouts left. I didn’t think there was any call for that.”
Is this guy for real? He’s complaining because they had no timeouts left and the Vikings took advantage and scored? What’s next, he’s going to complain the next time they lose a game? Jeez…
Bottomline is, the Vikings are in the NFC championship game against the New Orleans Saints and I won’t miss them Cowboys one bit. Bring on the Saints. Bring on the Saints.
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Minnesota Vikings +4.5
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