Coming into Thursday night’s NFL kickoff between the Cowboys and the reigning Super Bowl champion Eagles, nobody was believing in America’s Team. They were the biggest underdog of any team in Week 1, and hardly anyone was predicting the Cowboys to win.

They didn’t win, of course; Philadelphia held on to win 24-20 in a game that saw a flurry of scoring in the first half followed by just three combined points in the second half. But the manner in which this game unfolded – Dak Prescott returning to form, the Dallas defense shutting the Eagles out of the endzone in the second half – offered real hope for the season after a week that seemingly extinguished all of it.

It was a peculiar game through and through, too.

The opening kickoff featured an Eagles player, fullback Ben VanSumeren, suff

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