Philadelphia Eagles flashbacks: Philly’s 15 best victories over Dallas
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October 25th of 1987: Eagles: 37, Cowboys: 20
On more than one occasion, Cowboys legend Tom Landry took great pride in running up the score on his opponents, yet he’d get quite sensitive when the favor was returned. Just take the 1985 regular season for example.
Cowboys legendary coach Tom Landry was embarrassed by his former pupil, Mike Ditka, Apparently, Coach Landry took quite the exception to that 44-0 beatdown, and Ditka has always looked at that game as one of his biggest errors in coaching.
Landry wouldn’t get the same softhearted response from Ditka’s defensive coordinator during that 1985 campaign, Buddy Ryan. In 1987, the Cowboys humiliated Philly by a score of 41-22 in Week 4. Ryan took exception, accusing Landry of running up the score.
He’d get his revenge in the next contest. Towards the end of their next meeting in Week 6 and with a comfortable ten-point lead, Randall Cunningham faked a kneel down, threw one to the end zone, and drew a pass interference call. Philly was awarded the ball at the one-yard line. Keith Byars punched in one more score, and Philly had its revenge. We’ve never asked him, but the assumption is Coach Ryan never felt bad about it either.