Like you Grizz, the anxiety is getting unbearable and for so many reasons, the cowboys HAVE to win today.  I'm looking forward to blogging our team to victory today with all of you.

and I am NERVOUS. The last time I was this nervous before a Cowboys game was back before we played Buffalo for the second time in the Super Bowl. I kept telling myself we couldn't possibly beat them two years in a row, that Buffalo has lost 3 straight Super Bowls, they were due to win one. I remember pacing in front of the TV when the second half started and Buffalo was up 7 and driving. Then, Leon Lett forced a fumble, James Washington ran it back for a TD, and the rest is history.

Now, I keep asking, can we beat the Giants 3 times? Aren't they due to beat us?
I just desperately want to celebrate a Cowboys playoff win.

I just want a playoff win.

I might not make until game time.......

is ready for some football!

I'm foregoing collegiate preperation to obsess about this game all day. I can't remember the last time my nerves were this wracked.

Feeling a little chippy about the noise coming from the Gnats, feeling a little anxious about the Boys play down the strecth.

Giving me confidence - we did not lose 1 game we HAD to win all year, Gints lost several. Time to step up, assert ourselves and take charge

I'm just happy and excited we're hosting a playoff game today.  The first time in nine years!

I'm not that nervous about the game itself.  The Giants might give us a little trouble, but I think we'll roll and win by at least 10 points.

My dad, brothers and nephews, all Giants fans.  And they are all pumped and wanting to lay cash.  In addition to one straight-up bet, I've got UNDER on Romo 2.5 interceptions (taking candy from a baby) and Romo 3.5 sacks... they're dreaming.  Funny how fast people forget what a stud we have behind center.

Having listened to WFAN over the holidays, I can say Giants fans love AND hate this team.  They have very shaky confidence in Eli - because he deserves it - and many were hoping they didn't even make the playoffs so they could change management and get a better draft pick.  Now they're all cocky and luvin' their team?  Make a note now, WHEN we win, you MUST go to WFAN.com during the week just to get a great laugh.  Best time is from 3-6 pm.

Romo is a stud, TO is at 95% (more than enough), Witten is Witten, the Cowboys Defense has steadily improved through the year, MBIII is starting, and the stadium is gonna be rockin!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cowboys 34 - Giants 20

That's it.

I've been a Romo advocate since last year's preseason and this is THE game for him to get the monkey off of his back. Not to mention all the other obvious implications. The only things I can do to make it to game time right now are:

1. Imagine what I'll feel like when the Boys come out in the 3rd quarter and own the field like they did the first 3/4 of the year.

2. Recognize that I don't ever remember Eli having three good games in a row.

3. Pray the traffic from San Diego to LA is no worse than average this morning.

4. Laugh at all the San Diego fans I'm surrounded by right now. (Laugh to myself, of course. No sense in pissing off the football gods today.)

My prediction: Cowboys 42 - Giants 27

I am pumped, fired up, excited, and a twinge of nervousness!!  Nervous, because I haven't seen the Cowboys play for a while!  It is about time for Cowboys football!!!

MB3 go out start the game right!  Intensity, power, and the excitement that you bring!!

First TD, I want to go to TG!  That will put the Giants defense on alert and soften them up some!!!

GO COWBOYS!!!!!

I'm Zach and I've been clean for 14 days since my last Cowboys indulgence. I'm right on the verge of using again and I'm afraid no one will be able to stop me. GO COWBOYS!

present and accounted for!

I don't like microwave popcorn.  So sue me.  It's my birthday, and Jerry Jones is going to give me an NFC championship appearance.

Get your popcorn ready baby, Romo, T.O. and MB3 will blow the GMen off the field in a blowout.

GO COWBOYS!!!

everyone thinks it will be.  Go 'Boys!

It's killing me waiting for 4:30 to get here!
I'm so ready to get it on

GO COWBOYS!

I dreamed of football last night.

watching the first game now, and feeling good about the next one.

With T.O. healthy or nearly so, Glenn back, and Barber starting, combined with a less than full capacity secondary for the Gnats, I am feeling quite confident.  I think we'll put up the same range of points we did the first two games, and win by at least 10.

This from Spagnola helps:

Most of all, though, you are wondering about these Cowboys, who haven't played a meaningful game since Dec. 22, three weeks ago when they secured home-field advantage throughout the playoffs with a 20-13 victory over Carolina on the road. They are more than ready despite all the nonsense you might be reading or listening to for the past week.

They are locked and loaded. Maybe more important, they are energized.

"Everything seems to step up," Burnett said. "Everybody's tone of voice, everybody's intensity in meetings and the claps in the huddles.

"But the biggest thing, by this time last year everybody was worn down, just trying to get through that first playoff game. Now, we're fresh."

Head coach Wade Phillips described Thursday's practice as a "rousing practice."

Better than every bit of this, Terrell Owens was back in practice for the first time since suffering that high left ankle sprain back on Dec. 22. He was running - hard. He was cutting - tight. He was doing everything everyone else was doing during the portion of practice we are allowed to watch.

And he was doing all this without any sort of hitch in his gate. No limping, seemingly no limitations...

I look for Romo to be focused and sharp and silence all the naysayers, and Glenn to make a stunning debut (the Skins game didn't really count).

Just found out my best friend who goes to school in California somehow got tickets to the game and is going. While I'm upset that I will not be there, I'm so pumped for this game its unreal.

Here's to demolishing the Giants a third and final time!

Dunkman in the house.

At least those of us that aren't Broncos or Packers fans (a lot of those here, it's weird).  Beat the Giants!

Greatness will be realized.

Cowboy Louie on board.  

I was fortunate enough to be at the Packers game yesterday.  Lambeau was rocking and I expect nothing less from Cowboy fans at Texas Stadium today.  Seeing an NFL playoff game live is an awesome experience, even it your team isn't playing.

Being from Milwaukee, all my buddies are Packer fans and they are coming over to watch the game.  Unfortunately for them, there is a cover charge at my place today:  one bag of popcorn per Packer fan!

Can’t wait for the Real Game to start!

Time to announce the Cowboys are back with the shiny new playoff edition.

This is the most anxious I've felt for a game for as long as I can remember.

It must be some combination of the media all seeming to pick the giants over us and the bashing of the cowboys this week that has placed some sort of doubt in my mind.

someone convince me otherwise...

that is all

More a lurker than a poster, but I figure we need all the support we can get for the playoffs.

Go Boys!

Let's get it on

We are gonna blow them out

MacMahon:

The Original 81 bolted out of the tunnel and took a pre-victory lap around the field, letting folks on all sides of Texas Stadium scream their hearts out for him.

T.O. showed no sign of a limp, but he doesn't appear to be at full speed. A TV cameraman was able to keep up with him for the first 100 yards.

T.O. looks fine coming out of his breaks and hasn't dropped a pass from assistant equipment manager Mike Kurowski yet.

here to call it... 38-24 cowboys win it with TO puttin on a show. i got some butter, but im hoping TO held the butter on his popcorn.

i'm ready to go

c'mon boys!!!!

i'm not internationally known/but i'm known to rock the microphone!

old school rap for an old school beating!

Go Boys!