There may be but one team Buffalo Bills fans despise more than the Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys, and thankfully Bills Mafia won’t have to digest any of their Thanksgiving Day feast watching the New England Patriots. It’s impossible, but Bills fans would probably prefer if both teams lost this matchup, given each team’s direct ties to Buffalo’s playoff misery.
Would a tie suffice? No — the move here is actually to root for the 5-5-1 Cowboys to hand the 6-5 Chiefs another loss. That is, unless
you want Kansas City closer to Buffalo and more likely to earn a playoff spot. The powers that be tell us that Dallas is America’s Team still, and they’ve put their foot — err, money where their mouth is by scheduling these Cowboys in four consecutive primetime games in the last month.
Could it get any better… and you get to cheer them on?!
Look, aside from detestable, acerbic, and aloof Jerry Jones, these Cowboys don’t leave the worst taste in one’s mouth. It’s just that no one needs to be told which team is their country’s team. Even their likeable quarterback, Dak Prescott, has changed his snap cadence a bit to eliminate that grating “here we go” before every snap.
Did you know that the Chiefs started out their professional football lives as the Dallas Texans? Yup, it’s true. Before both, the pre-Baltimore-pre-Indianapolis Colts also began life as the Dallas Texans. Now, Texas’ football heart is so big that they had to create two separate teams to hold all the love for Dallas and the Texans. We’re so lucky, and we get to root for a Cowboys win on Thanksgiving!
The Cowboys have a 34-22-1 record in Thanksgiving Day games, while the Chiefs are 5-5 all-time on Thanksgiving. Dallas leads the head-to-head series against Kansas City (7-5-0), with their last matchup taking place on November 21, 2021. The Chiefs defeated the Cowboys 19-9 at Arrowhead.
Here’s your open thread for Cowboys-Chiefs. As always, be kind to one another — and in all things… Go Bills!
