‘What’s it going to take to beat the Dallas Cowboys? Just another 24 hours.’ Stories tell us that those were the words that former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Dick Vermeil spoke to his team on the eve of their NFC Championship Game versus that team from Texas. After that, he turned around, and he walked out of the room.
You wouldn’t be an Eagles fan if you didn’t know what happened next. One day later, on January 11th of 1981, Wilbert Montgomery ripped one up the middle, took it 42 yards, and Dallas never recovered.