Wait.. Do Philadelphia Eagles fans want Dallas to win on Thanksgiving?

It makes us sick to say this, think this or even type the words, but has anyone thought about the fact that the Philadelphia Eagles might actually need a Cowboys win?

It’s been a part of your DNA since you were able to say the words ‘mommy’ or ‘daddy’. You hate the Dallas Cowboys if you’re a Philadelphia Eagles fan. It’s okay. There’s nothing wrong with that. Part of the joy that comes on Thanksgiving Day revolves around sitting around the television with your family and cheering against that despicable team with that ugly star on their helmets.

For most of the time that most of us have been on this planet, you’ve despised the colors blue and gray. That’s also okay. There’s nothing wrong with that either. Truthfully, what is there to like about Troy Aikman, the words ‘How about them Cowboys’, Jerry Jones, or more recently, watching Jason Garrett applaud failure from the sidelines?

Truthfully, there isn’t much. There’s just one thing. This Thanksgiving is different. This Thanksgiving, Dallas’ annual game on ‘Turkey Day’ is a divisional bout with the Washington Redskins, another team Eagles fans aren’t too fond of.

Yes, we mean those division-leading Redskins. Yes, we mean the same Redskins that hold a two-game lead over the Eagles, who are currently in third place in the NFC East.

Which is worse? Would it be a Redskins victory that would make them 3-0 in the division and strengthen their playoff push? Would it be a Cowboys victory, seeing as how the Cowboys have another date versus the Eagles later in the season and only hold a one-game advantage over our beloved ‘Birds’?

Maybe we should all just sit this one out because the thought of cheering for Dallas makes everyone sitting here around ITI sick to our collective stomachs. It sickens us like the days when our grandparents wouldn’t let us leave the table until we’d finished our vegetables. It sickens us like some virus you’d have to take some nasty medicine for.

It sickens us to a point that we can’t think of anything that’s worse.

Let’s be honest. For many of us the Dallas Cowboys are how we learned what hate was, and though a Cowboys victory on Thanksgiving might help the Eagles in the long run, there’s no way any of us are cheering for that team from Texas today.

Somebody go tell Ezekiel Elliott to pick a side. You can’t call yourself ‘America’s Team’ and then claim an ‘it’s us against the world’ mantra. Period, point blank and end of sentence.