This week's edition of Monday Night Football featured one of the National Football League's best-known rivalries, that of the Dallas Cowboys and my favorite team, the Washington Redskins. It was the first of their two annual meetings and was played in Dallas, meaning their second game against each other this season will be in Washington.
The Cowboys and Redskins traded the lead throughout the game, whose highlight was arguably a touchdown by Washington's Colt McCoy, who passed for a total of 299 yards. and the fourth quarter ended in a 17-17 tie. Washington then took a 20-17 lead with 9:43 left in overtime courtesy of a field goal by Kai Forbath, and Dallas's final possession yielded nothing special, clinching the win for Washington. Ater the game, McCoy was denied an interview by an agent, who remarked "no means no", and also tried to high-five coach Jay Gruden but ended up just hugging him.
This game didn't change things much. Dallas still leads the NFC East division, and Robert Griffin III of Washington is still out with an injury that he got during Week 2 against the Jacksonville Jaguars. But I'm just glad that the Redskins defeated their biggest rival in that team's stadium on a Monday night in a nationally televised game. It's not often that I'm happy about a football game.
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