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Washington Redskins: New Rivalries Brewing in 2015

Every year I watch the Redskins-Cowboys Monday Night Football matchup and think: why? Why is this still a rivalry? I mean, it’s great to have the opportunity to overdrink deep into a Monday night and waking up Tuesday feeling like a Sunday morning version of Matthew McConaughey is absolute bliss, but come on!

Is there any real intrigue left in this “rivalry” for millennials like me? For almost twenty years the Redskins-Cowboys narrative has been of two badly-piloted sinking ships trying desperately to reach the shore of the off-season.

Before last season, each franchise had won an equally pitiful number of playoff games: 1.