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"So it's a 'Hail Mary' or a kneel down and it's going to be the former,'' Al Michaels intoned as the Cowboys lined up at their own 36-yard-line against the Redskins, trailing 3-0 with four seconds left in an otherwise uneventful first half in the NFL's season's opening Sunday night game.
Actually, it was neither a kneel down or a Hail Mary.
It was a botched flip from Tony Romo to Tashard Choice that set the tone for a Dallas season that quickly spiraled to 1-8 and got Wade Phillips fired despite Jerry Jones' historic reluctance to let a coach go during a season.
With the ultimate irony: the man who almost surely called the play was Jason Garrett, then the offensive coordinator and now the head coach with a decent chance of remaining the same into the future.
Yes, by any stretch, one of the first plays of the 2010 NFL season remains, even to the end of the season, as one of the most memorable.
In case anyone has forgotten, the Cowboys had one goal this season: to play the Super Bowl in front of their home fans in Jerry Dallas' lavish, 100,000-plus seat palace of excess in Arlington, Texas.
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/12/31/end-of-year-memory-dallas-opens-with-thud/
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