For those of us who are old enough to remember, former Washington Redskins’ coach, George Allen, made a real rivalry out of the Washington and Cowboys head-to-head games way back in the early 1970s. What they called “Dallas Week” was a real rivalry. The media in D.C. helped to amplify the drama around the rivalry, and players would do a lot of trash talking. The Redskins were winning Super Bowls, and the rivalry was fun.
The fun of “Dallas Week” lost its luster in the late 1990s. It all but faded into the 2000s as the previous Washington ownership made Washington irrelevant. The history is there, and the Commanders are relevant again — even though there isn’t a player on this current team that was alive to see a football game played under Allen.
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