Dallas and Philadelphia have split the season series the last two years, with the Cowboys winning both early-season games and the Eagles taking both rematches.

With a national TV audience watching, this game could have a hard time matching some of the great contests over the first 99. The Cowboys lead the series 55-44 and once won 11 consecutive games over the Eagles, from 1967-1972.

For most Eagles fans, beating the Cowboys is second only to winning a Super Bowl.

Of course, that’s a feat the Eagles have never accomplished, while the Cowboys have won five Super Bowls. The Eagles won the last of their three NFL championships in 1960.

One of the Eagles’ biggest wins in team history came at the expense of Dallas in January 1981, when they beat the Cowboys 20-7 to advance to the Super Bowl for the first time in franchise history.

Eagles fans once cheered the ambulance that drove Irvin off the field after he went down with a career-ending neck injury.

Any die-hard Eagles fan surely remembers the “fourth-and-1” game in 1995 when former Cowboys coach Barry Switzer ran Emmitt Smith into the line on consecutive plays in Dallas territory late in the fourth quarter, only to get stopped both times as the Eagles went on to win 20-17.

Now it’s time for Romo and Donovan McNabb, Austin and DeSean Jackson to make No. 100 a game to remember.

“It’s a nice rivalry to have,” Reid said.

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