From T.O. to OT: Dallas’ Jason Peters Joins List of ‘Philadelphia Cowboys’

Jason Peters’ former supporters in Philadelphia and his new devoted amongst Dallas Cowboys followers would maybe by no means care to confess it, however the two rivals fulfill the last word cliche of the enemies: they don’t seem to be so totally different, in any case. 

Swagger, the newly-minted Cowboys offensive lineman notes, is what unites the Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles, long-running NFC East rivals who’ve by no means hidden their animosity. 

“I do not actually name it conceitedness. They’ve swagger, you understand?” Peters remarked in his first Dallas-affiliated public feedback. “(It is) just about the identical factor. The swagger, they go week in and week out with that swagger … That is how we did it in Philly and that is how we’ll do it right here.”

Peters spent a dozen NFL seasons in Philadelphia, making a reputation for himself as one of the crucial dominant blockers of the final decade. These seasons included many a matchup with Dallas, who has typically saved its distance from Philadelphia, and vice versa, although former star-wearers Miles Austin, Kelvin Martin, and DeMarco Murray all finally traded in silver for inexperienced sooner or later of their respective careers.

Having spent final yr in Chicago, Peters will little question stay a beloved determine in Phildaelphia. He is removed from the primary notable Eagle in staff historical past to hitch the Dallas trigger, a phenomenon that proved fairly prevalent within the early days of the Cowboys’ franchise … 

FB/TE/Ok Dick Bielski

The Eagles are accountable for bestowing Dallas their second Professional Bowler in staff historical past after Bielski came to visit amongst the unique Cowboys within the 1960 enlargement draft. His efforts at tight finish (377 yards on 26 receptions) earned him entry to the 1961 version in Los Angeles. 

Having beforehand grow to be the primary Philadelphia kicker in addition a number of 50-plus yard discipline objectives in a single season, Bielski holds one of the crucial unbreakable data in NFL historical past because the earner of the shortest formally scored landing in league historical past. His two-inch rating from Eddie LeBaron has been acknowledged by the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame. 

WR Harold Carmichael

Carmichael would maybe be the headliner of the all-time ‘Wait, He Performed For the Cowboys?!?!?’ staff. Partly accountable for among the first issues fashionable Eagle followers might name glory days within the Tremendous Bowl period, Carmichael performed two video games with Dallas after a tryout with the New York Jets didn’t pay dividends in 1984. 

At age 35, he earned a singled starred reception, incomes seven yards in an October win over Indianapolis. 

QB Randall Cunningham

Cunningham was lengthy faraway from Philadelphia when he turned one of many first names within the post-Troy Aikman quarterback gauntlet from the soccer netherworld at the-turn-of-the-century. By then, Cunningham had loved a quick resurrection in Minnesota after an unsightly divorce from the Eagles after the 1995 marketing campaign.

When concussions lastly began to assert Aikman’s profession, Cunningham typically needed to mop up no matter was left of the woebegone 2000 Cowboys’ season alongside Anthony Wright. To his credit score, the 37-year-old Cunningham had a couple of respectable showings, headlined by an extra time showdown with the Eagles that November. Cunningham was not retained afterward, as he moved to compete for a beginning job in opposition to Elvis Grbac with the defending champion Baltimore Ravens. 

S Jimmy Harris

A transformed quarterback who oversaw a superb a part of Oklahoma’s legendary 47-game successful streak in school, the late Harris holds a particular footnote in Eagles historical past. When he was traded to Minnesota after his rookie season in 1957, Philadelphia gained again lauded quarterback Norm Van Brocklin. 

Harris would later spend the final of 5 NFL seasons with the fledgling Cowboys in 1961, notably incomes two interceptions within the third win in franchise historical past. 

RB/WR Tommy McDonald

Ought to he be known as upon for normal season motion, Peters won’t be the primary Philadelphia champion to go well with up for America’s Workforce. That honor belongs to the late Corridor-of-Famer McDonald, a jack-of-all-trades able to lining up as each a halfback and a flanker. 

Recognized for his All-American endeavors at Oklahoma, McDonald scored 46 touchdowns between 1960 and 1963, a time of Philadelphia prosperity that included the 1960 NFL championship. McDonald’s good occasions got here to an finish when Philadelphia dealt him to Dallas, then a meandering enlargement franchise determined for any form of traction. He was efficient sufficient (second on the staff with 612 yards in a 5-8-1 marketing campaign) however that wasn’t sufficient for Dallas to retain him. He spent his last seasons between Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Cleveland earlier than retiring in 1968. 

WR Terrell Owens

Maybe essentially the most well-known … or notorious … green-to-blue transformation is that of the Corridor-of-Famer Owens, who moved to North Texas on the top of his powers. Having grow to be an excessive amount of for Donovan McNabb and Eagles administration to deal with, Owens went to Dallas a mere 4 days after Philadelphia bid him farewell. Maybe the observers ought to’ve seen it coming: 5 years after his notorious starry celebration at Texas Stadium with San Francisco, considered one of Owens’ many controversies got here when he wore a Michael Irvin jersey following a Dallas victory over the Eagles in 2005. 

Owens’ Dallas proved equally entertaining on the sector, as he scored 38 touchdowns over three seasons in Dallas. However after the Cowboys didn’t make any postseason headway regardless of Owens headlining an absurdly potent offense (his tearful press convention after the 2007-08 Divisional loss to New York turned the lasting picture of that season’s in any other case historic group), he was launched by Dallas in a transfer he outlined as “blindsid(ing).” His last recreation in Dallas was the notorious 44-6 shellacking at Lincoln Monetary Area that saved the Cowboys out of a playoff spot. 

Geoff Magliocchetti is on Twitter @GeoffJMags 

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