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On the eve of a Sunday night NFC East showdown in Philadelphia, the Cowboys have gotten some bulletin board material via a comparison of their franchise and the Eagles. Strangely enough, the inflammatory statements weren't made by anyone with current ties to the Eagles, but by Ravens head coach John Harbaugh.

Harbaugh, a former Eagles assistant, was asked for a new book what made the Eagles more successful than the Cowboys over the last 10 years. Matt Mosley of ESPN.com shares the answer.

Wade Phillips isn't much to look at, but Cowboys owner Jerry Jones didn't hire the Son of Bum to model puffy jackets. He hired him for his football acumen. The bloodlines and several successful stints as a defensive coordinator suggested he was up for it, even if Phillips doesn't exactly exude confidence.

I often think owners and general managers fall in love with potential head coaching candidates because of their assistant coaching track record, even though the biggest part of the job usually has more to do with, in Mike Tomlin's words, "leading men," than it does with Xs and Os.

Which goes a long way in explaining why some fans aren't sold on Phillips as the long-term answer in Dallas. And some media types, too. Like, say the Dallas Observer's Richie Whitt, who uses a recent Phillips radio appearance to illustrate the point.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has never been shy about spending big for superstars, and on Monday he spent very big to lock in one of the best defensive players in the league.

Linebacker DeMarcus Ware has agreed to a six-year contract extension that Jay Glazer of FOXSports.com reports is worth nearly $13 million per season and almost $40 million in guaranteed money.

The contract ensures that the 27-year-old Ware will play for the Cowboys, who selected him with the 11th overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft, through the prime years of his career.

NFL Coaches Fight Club: the Tournament. Because we have nothing better to do than predict what might happen if head coaches started punching each other in the face.

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Recently, some happy-go-lucky Dallas Cowboys fans christened the team's new stadium by gettin' busy in a Burger King Jerry Dome bathroom while the Cowboys were gettin' busy all over my beloved (and pathetic!) Carolina Panthers.

Everyone's seen this homemade porno, too (Deadspin's -- obviously NSFW -- post topped 200k views in short order). And when I say "everyone" I really mean that -- even Jerry Jones, whose money, fame and insanity unwittingly played a role in sexing up Cowboys Stadium, managed to sneak a peek at the pair of hardcore Michael Irvin fans knockin' sneakers (hey, it's Texas, it's either that or cowboy boots).

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Pierre Thomas owners simply cannot catch a break. It was bad enough watching Mike Bell tear through defenses as Thomas sat out for the first two games of the season, but now that he is finally healthy (and Bell is not), according to FFToolBox, the Saints are giving first team repetitions to Lynell Hamilton (this was also mentioned in the Cram Session podcast by our Matt Snyder and Tom Herrera). Pardon my French, but who the hell is Lynell Hamilton?

To recap: the Cowboys' shiny, new, $1.3 billion stadium has the world's largest HD television too close to the playing surface, Party Pass holders have an exquisite view of, well, other Party Pass holders (but not much else), the concrete and steel behemoth is architecturally uninspiring, and Jerry Jones likes to pick his nose. Oh, and the Cowboys' lost in the first-ever home game in their new digs.

Otherwise, everything went off without a hitch, right? Eh, maybe not.

There are so many great things about being a Party Pass holder at the shiny new Cowboys Stadium, as this video illustrates. For instance: for 30 bucks you can't actually see the Cowboys, which, frankly, is a bargain. It also means that you can wallow in misery with hundreds of other party passers who share your fate. (Because, really, there's nothing sadder than having to endure your plight alone.)

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Sunday night's Cowboys-Giants game was a thriller for sure. But Jerry Jones apparently got bored. At point point midway through the proceedings the NBC cameras caught him straight up working his nasal cavity.

Now, I'm not one to judge (mainly because I don't have billions of dollars) but when the entire world comes to your debut, shouldn't you make sure to keep your finger out of your schnozz? (Rhetorical answer: YES.) If Jerrah's looking for an excuse, there's always the whole "searching for gold to pay for this $30 bazillion stadium."

Fun starts after the jump.

NEW YORK -- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced his final Michael Vick decision to a group of about 20 reporters in a conference room at the league offices in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon. FanHouse attended the session, which lasted about an hour and a half and covered a wide range of topics that began with Vick and also touched on the Cowboys' video board, the blackout/ticket-sales issues in Jacksonville, the upcoming labor negotiations and several other topics.

But the news of the day was Vick, and Goodell's explanation of his reasoning for reinstating Vick effective Week 3 was interesting. The commissioner said, as he has said before, that he's "looking for a success story" with Vick, and that the goal is to make sure the troubled QB becomes a good and productive member of society off the field moving forward. Keeping Vick out for the first two games of the regular season seemed less like a punitive measure on Goodell's part, rather than one designed to take into account the number of different things Vick has going on in his life right now.