The Year of the 3rd String QB goes Prime Time

REDSKINS 20,  COWBOYS 17 (OT)

In a game marred by flashes of competence, yet another 3rd string quarterback took the field in the Doormat Division tonight, with Redskin QB Colt McCoy prepared to short-arm passes and fling wounded ducks wherever required.  The Cowboys, however, had other ideas.  Refusing to take a commanding lead, they shrug off the Deadskin strategy and deploy multiple fumbles and nurse a meager lead into a deficit by the third quarter, 10-7, including getting Tony Romo out of the game with a bruised back (the Redskins must have lined up in all-out blitz mode on almost every play).

With the score tied at 17-17, the Redskinks engineer a reverse drive from the Cowboy 37 with 3:03 to go, pulling off a penalty and a sack to stay safely out of field goal range.  They punt, pinning the Cowboys at their own 3.  On consecutive plays the Redskins refuse to recover a GIFT fumble at the 3, and then an interception right through a defensive back's hands, narrowly avoiding absurdly close field goal position.  Neither team can secure the loss, so it goes to overtime.

The 'Skins (can we call them the Hides?) win the coin toss, with an oddly unsure referee on mic sounding like he'd never done a coin toss.  Anybody catch that?  At this point, McCoy realizes he's achieved competence in the game, and decides at least ONE Doormat team deserves an upset this week, and we agree- especially when the Cowpies are involved.  Colt rips his team down the field and they rifle a field goal through the uprights and escape Dallas, the classiest armpit in America, with a victory.

Hats off to the Natives!

-wacko