These aren’t little kids whose feelings we have to worry about. This is a professional league with very highly paid, grown men. I’m not losing any sleep worrying about their self-esteem. Team partsianship aside, I’ve never liked complaints about running up scores on a professional level. If you don’t like it, stop them.
I just saw it as a celebratory finish on a good day. Cowboys could have stopped if they didn’t want to see it. I’m touched that they worried about the Eagles feelings, and even more touched that they forgot to start trying again in their next playoff game.
Ah, so then yesterday New Orleans was clearly remiss in their duties, by running time off the clock in the 4th quarter, rather than scoring another 21 or 28 points and make the final score 70-14, like they could have… even though they already had the game solidly won. Got it.
I don’t see it as a matter of worrying about anybody’s feelings, but rather as a matter of sportsmanship.
If you just want to have something to complain about, fine. The Vikings didn’t need to score that last touchdown. They did, and that’s that. I don’t think they can call up the NFL and take it back.
Agreed.
True. All Dallas can do is put it in their file and remember it if they meet again.
Yes, and they have the comfort of knowing that if and when they do meet the Vikings again, they take cheap shots and won’t get called on them by the refs.
I think that last touchdown was psychological. It was a response to all the pundits who predicted a Cowboy victory, it ended the game on a high note, and it’s a lead-in for the next game – a we-take-no-prisoners message to the Saints.
That’s how I saw it, AP. This wasn’t like the Patriots tacking on another 7 in a regular season game they were winning by 50 points. This was an undersold Vikings team making a statement to a Dallas team that lipped off all week and then didn’t back it up.
Oh geez, boo hoo, the Vikes were so mean! Those poor Cowboy players will have to settle for going home to their million dollar homes, beautiful wives, and drink away their pain with bottles of stuff that cost more than a Lexus. Watch my tears fall.
Is someone crying? If so, I missed it.
Well there was that Cowboy that got burned for that last TD; he seemed to be crying or at least whining at Favre after the play. I forget the guy’s name, but then so will everyone else.
Whoop! Chargers are on the board and the Jets haven’t made a single 1st down yet. GO SAN DIEGO!!! 
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I’m rooting for the Chargers, but i didn’t think the officials should have overturned that fumble call on Floyd. It was pretty clear that he had control of the ball and then fumbled it.
If the ruling they made was within the rules, then the rules are bullshit and need to be changed. The NFL already gives enough leeway to the offensive side of the ball, without allowing a guy to make a clean catch in the open field and then fumble it without consequence like that.
Cool. I’d like to see a New Orleans / San Diego matchup in the Super Bowl, at this point. Saints have never been there before, and San Diego’s only been once, if I recall correctly. I think that would be a really good matchup, too. (And there would be the added rivalry of Drew Brees playing against his former team and his QB replacement).
I don’t think the Jets would beat Indy next week, but San Diego could.
I’m just never going to understand this mentality. I’m a Bears fan, so I hate the Vikes, but I was happy to see them not letting up. Not only is this the NFL, but it’s the playoff. I don’t believe there’s such a thing as it being unsportsmanlike in running up the score at this level.
Agreed. Total bullshit call there. Even if it were close, I can’t see how there was enough evidence to overturn the call on the field.
It was 4th and 3, and unless they get a first down, they run no time off. A pass play is completely legitimate in that situation. If it was 3rd and 3, then I think you have to run it.
This.
And that was definitely a fumble by Floyd.
Hmm. 4th and 3 with 2 min. to go from the opposing 11. You can kick the chip shot field goal and lead 30 - 3, or you can try for a touchdown and win 34 - 3. I know there are some who would think just take the field goal, and I think it’s certainly a classier way to go (why try to win by even more points than you already are going to win by?). However, the difference certainly is pretty negligible, and it did offer the Vikings a chance to run a play that they might want to have some confidence in next week. So I don’t see it as somehow an awful thing for which everyone in the world should excoriate them. I suspect Dallas may have some thoughts on it, but then again, if you are on the Dallas Cowboys, and you need added motivation to want to do well against the Minnesota Vikings, you really, REALLY need to find something else to do besides play professional football. 
Now, as far as the classiness part goes, hey, it’s the Vikings. You really don’t expect a CLASS act, do you? 
The fumble overturn was the bullshittiest bullshit that ever did bullshit.