Saints Prove That Playoff Race Can Be Wacky

The New Orleans Saints 30-27 victory, over the Dallas Cowboys, on Thanksgiving Day, proves that anything can happen in the NFL's playoff stretch. Peter Finney, of the Times-Picayune, has the story, below.

Harry Connick Jr. leads a float out onto the field which carried the VInce Lombardi Super Bowl Trophy won last year by the New Orleans Saints prior to the Saints playing against the Minnesota Vikings at Louisiana Superdome on September 9, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Courtesy---Peter Finney/Times-Picayune

What a Thanksgiving Day picture that was inside Cowboys Stadium.

As vultures wearing blue stars circled overhead, there sat what appeared to be a well-clawed Who Dat corpse waiting to be officially declared dead.

Coroners at the scene had already issued their verdict.

Never before, they told us, had the Dallas Cowboys come back from a 17-point deficit to win one of those nationally televised Turkey Day extravaganzas.

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