The Dallas Cowboys should be able to defeat the miserable Washington Commanders today without the need for any voodoo, jixes, or “lifted curses,” in all honesty.
However, just in case…
Michael Irvin, a legendary wide receiver for the Cowboys and the NFL, has gone on public to agree with the legions of “America’s Team” supporters who have long found “miserablwe fun” in the notion that the Cowboys have been under a “curse” for nearly thirty years and that the curse has now been lifted.
Hall of Famer Irvin claims that owner Jerry Jones’s sluggishness in inducting the famous head coach into the Cowboys Ring of Honor is the reason the team has been plagued by “The Curse of Jimmy Johnson” for all these years.
But that changed last Saturday night. … and so now, everything has changed! Right, Michael?
In response to a fan who questioned the team’s prospects against Washington in NFL Week 18 on Sunday, Irvin wrote on Twitter, “The ‘Jimmy Johnson Curse’ being lifted will make sure that doesn’t happen, buddy.”
Ah, but wait a moment, “Playmaker.” Here is where you’re wrong …
The Cowboys defeating a club that is a 13-point underdog is not the alleged “curse.” It’s about Dallas experiencing Super Bowl glory again, the kind that happened in the 1990s when Johnson and Jones built a three-time champion team, of course, with Irvin at the center of it all.
On Sunday, the game between Dallas and Washington is set to begin at 3:25 p.m. CT. Should the Cowboys triumph? That won’t prove anything other than the fact that they secure the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs, which is a significant achievement.
And if the Cowboys keep going forward and end up in the Super Bowl proper? Only then will we be able to genuinely rejoice at the lifting of “The Jimmy Johnson Curse.”
