The Dallas Cowboys are once again traveling to their vacation home on Sunday, heading to the east coast to take on the Washington Football Team in an NFC East battle in Week 14. Dallas is so used to being in friendly confines as a part of the NFL’s most storied rivalry, they decided to move in some of their own furniture for the game.
Dallas’ equipment managers weren’t only responsible for making sure the players brought the right length cleats to manage the rough field conditions. They also apparently had to get the seating right for the game, because they couldn’t trust the home team to put on a good show. Dallas brought in Cowboys-branded benches for their players, something that is not typical in the NFL.
As if the #Cowboys couldn’t be any more contemptible, they flew in their own sideline benches for the game … first time and only team that’s ever done that at FedEx … wild #WashingtonFootball pic.twitter.com/Qu46kPmP5P
— Mitchell Tischler (@Mitch_Tischler) December 12, 2021
While head coach Mike McCarthy has taken to delivering guarantees and owner Jerry Jones has waxed poetic about how much he loves Washington-area Cowboys fans, this is not totally a thumbed nose at the home team. It really is a poorly-run endeavor and with a cold front in the metropolitan area, the Cowboys had to make sure what happened to the Seattle Seahawks a few weeks ago wasn’t going to happen to them.
Here's the deal on the Cowboys' benches today: Cowboys got word from Seattle that the hotseat benches provided for them at FedEx Field kept going out during the game. Cowboys partnered with company in Cleveland that shipped them to FedEx Field so wouldn't be an issue today.
— Todd Archer (@toddarcher) December 12, 2021
Anyone who has watched football over the last couple of decades is well aware of how horrible the experience is at Fed Ex Field, the Maryland home to the Washington Footbal Team. Dan Snyder inherited the stadium from previous owner Jack Kent Cooke and the handling of the facility has been, well, less than stellar, including a leak of a sewage earlier in the season.
"It's sewage"
according to these Washington Football fans at FedEx Field @wusa9 #WashingtonFootball
(🎥I/G tommyob5) pic.twitter.com/iCYNQOzosF— Darren M. Haynes (@DarrenMHaynes) September 12, 2021
Viewers on TV can always expect to see a sea of blue whenever the Cowboys visit Washington. Hopefully they won’t have to see the actually sea this week and in an effort to actually feel comfortable in the middle of December, they apparently had to take matters into their own hands.
Two things:
Does it surprise me that equipment is faulty at FedEx field??
No.
Does it surprise me that my team flew in their own custom benches because of it?
No and quite honestly, I for one, am HERE FOR IT 😂
STAY BOUGIE MY KINGS 👑
— Kelsey Charles (@kelsey_charles) December 12, 2021
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