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The Washington Football Team brought their own benches to the Eagles game and fans roasted them for it

Wow. Their own benches? Who could’ve saw this coming?!?

Last week when Dallas absolutely blasted the Washington Football Team on their home field to quell any questions about who the best team in the division was, they brought their own benches to FedEx field.

They didn’t really do it as a flex, per se. It was really because the heated benches in Washington weren’t working.

It still ended up being a flex despite the completely sound reasoning for it. That’s how pretty much everyone took the gesture, anyway. That includes the WFT. Ron Rivera called the gesture “gamesmanship.”

Now, fast forward a week later, and here WFT is trying to pull a gamesmanship gesture of their own.

They apparently had their own heated benches shipped to Philadelphia for their upcoming game against the Eagles on Tuesday. And they’ll also be using those benches through the rest of the season against all of their divisional opponents.

Yup. They seriously did this. If it feels sort of predictable, corny and unoriginal to you, don’t worry. You’re totally not alone in this.

Everyone saw it coming after this quote from Ron Rivera last week.

I think everyone just hoped that it wouldn’t happen deep down. But it did. And we’re here. Sigh.

Fans absolutely roasted them for doing this.

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Bench Warrants: Cowboys bring own seating on Week 14 trip to Washington

Have several seats, Washington fans. The Cowboys had to bring in their own benches because Fed Ex Field is trash. | From @KDDrummondNFL

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.

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.

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.

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.

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