Bounty Bowl?

Phil Sheridan looks back at the history of the Cowboys-Eagles rivalry. He hits many of the highlights and lowlights since the 1970s. Most of it is here. The NFC Championship game. Stuffing Emmitt twice on 4^th and 1. The Cowboy picket crossers beating the Eagle scabs, the James Willis-Troy Vincent INT and lateral TD from the Eagles end zone, and the payback Randall “fake kneel down pass to Mike Quick.”

 

Surprisingly, however, he omits one play in particular that was both a highlight and lowlight. The Bounty Bowl, where Jesse Small made a bee line for…was it Luis Zendajas? And delivered a crushing hit on a Cowboys’ kickoff that left him prostrate and ultimately being carried off the field. I’m pretty sure that what added to the notoriousness of the play – aside from the fact that no team before or since has so blatantly targeted taking out an opposing kicker – was that it occurred on Thanksgiving.