Week 3 Recap - @ Green Bay

Deep in enemy territory with a crowd of cheeseheads totally surrounding you and all of them loud, excited and screaming for a victory.

No, I'm not referring to the Cowboys heading to Green Bay, I'm talking about me going to my Father-in-Law's football party, held in his basement, which is the most spectacular Packers' Mecca this side of Lambeau Field. It has autographed footballs and pictures, pennants galore and even has Packers carpet and the walls are painted green and yellow. Nice place for a Packer fan to watch a game... not so much for a Cowboys fan.

I was surrounded by 7 die hard Packer fans, a Redskins fan, a Steelers fan and an Eagles fan, and not one person thought Dallas had a chance to win except me. The pre-game predictions around the room ranged from 28-21, 31-17, and even 41-3, and I think the guy was serious.

When 'Pacman' forced a fumble and ran it to the Green Bay 14 on the 2nd play from scrimmage, somewhere inside of me I could sense this was going to be a better night than I thought. At times, the party would have been dead silent if not for the claps of my hands.

I was however, totally silenced when Romo drove the ball nicely only to throw an interception in the end zone, which was run back into Dallas territory by Nick Collins for 61 yards. But when Felix Jones bursted a 60 yard touchdown run I finally decided to get loud again. By the time Marion Barber punched in a goal line touchdown late in the 3rd quarter giving Dallas breathing room at 20-9, the party had dwindled down from 11 to 8.

It was all over when Miles Austin caught a 52 yard pass down the sideline and ran in for the game clinching touchdown with the Cowboys sailing ahead 27-9 with only 6 minutes of game left to play. That's when I took a bathroom break.

The few Packers fans who were still there did get excited briefly when Marion Barber had a rare fumble recovered by Green Bay. That mistake opened up a drive that led to the Packers only touchdown of the game. Unfortunately by that point only 2 minutes remained on the clock.

An illegal touch on the Packers' onside kick attempt pretty much sealed the game's fate and the score stood strong at 27-16, Dallas moves on to 3-0 while Green Bay goes 2-1.

Tony Romo didn't start out well, Terrell Owens was held to only 2 catches and 17 yards, and Crayton was without a catch at all. Luckily, Marion Barber, Felix Jones, Miles Austin, Jason Witten and the entire defense showed up ready to play. When one aspect of this team is not 100%, the other aspects seem to play 150% to compensate. This marks the first time since the early 70's that Dallas started two back to back seasons 3-0.

Next week Dallas goes back home and will jump back into another divisional match-up as The Washington Redskins come down to play. Washington's games so far have been inconsistent, but there's no reason to take them lightly, just look what Miami did upsetting The Patriots this past Sunday... anything can happen.