Monday night revealed a brutal finish for the Dallas Cowboys in their matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals. Instead of closing out their third straight win, a special teams mishap saw the game slip out of their hands and into the grasp of their opponent.
The Bengals would win 27-20, sending the woeful Cowboys to a 5-8 record with a fresh wound open for mockery among the national NFL audiences. All the injuries, drama and on-field struggles seemed to hit a low Monday night for team with still four games to play.
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By Tony Fisher
But the Cowboys’ struggles just continue to provide ammunition for their critics. Those like Stephen A. Smith are weekly participants in such festivities though that group now includes rivals wanting to get their blows in.
ESPN personality Jason Kelce took his turn on “Monday Night Countdown,” sneaking in a vulgar joke at the expense of the franchise … and the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
With the broadcast showcasing a sky view of AT&T Stadium Kelce proclaimed his comments of Dallas: “Also, the butthole in our pit of America,” Kelce said of DFW.
Kelce spent 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas’ arch rival in the NFC East. He retired after the 2023 season, entering the media realm soon after. Clearly for a player who spent his city in the “City of Brotherly Love,” there is no love lost for the former Eagles center.
Perhaps Kelce still harbors some negative feelings towards the team from the “butthole of America,” given they got the last laugh in their final meeting of the 2023 season. The Cowboys thrashed the Eagles 33-13 nearly a year to the day of his comments.
This season, the momentum has changed and the Eagles sit at 11-2 and are one of the best teams in the league while the Cowboys cannot choose between tanking or competing for essentially no reward. But regardless of that, ESPN probably needs to check itself as to what is part of the “fun” of a rivalry vs. what’s a tub of low-grade grossness.
