On one hand, there’s no more hated franchise than the Philadelphia Eagles. During the 1980s and 1990s, the Eagles were the NFC East afterthought. While the Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants and Washington franchise were winning up all the championships, the Eagles were the one competitor unable to cash in.

That all changed as the millennium set to change, and since that point it’s been the Eagles’ world in the division. While the Giants have won two more Lombardis, it’s been Philadelphia that has maintained dominance year after year after year, winning one chip and now appearing in their third Super Bowl in eight seasons.

And in that time, Dallas has been the not-quite-good enough franchise. The Cowboys have won plenty of divisions, but they haven’t done anything with those wins. It’s been 30 years since they sniffed an NFC Championship game, much less The Big Game.

So that brings the other hand forward.

Dallas fans are as frustrated as ever at owner and general manager Jerry Jones. Jones is no longer the maverick owner, willing to make daring moves in talent acquisition. He’d rather play it safe then invest in stars from other teams, or make boom-or-bust trades for superstars.

Jones has gotten relatively boring but he doesn’t know it, still telling anyone who will listen they are wrong about his daring ways and refusing to take blame for the lackluster performance as he continues to roll in the dough.

Will anything convince him to change directions?

Maybe having to watch Jeffrey Lurie hoist another Lombardi from the celebratory platform would do the trick.

All of the falsehoods the Cowboys have convinced themselves are reasonable explanations would turn into hollow excuses. The Eagles have a quarterback on a $255 million contract. They have a wide receiver making over $30 million a season, with another making $25 million per year.

They’ve invested big money, yet they don’t whine about not having enough pieces of pie to go around that force them to cry they’re cap poor year after year after year. They just go out and acquire talent that helps their quest, like signing running back Saquon Barkley to form their Triplets with Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown.

A Super Bowl win with all those stars making huge money would remove the one final cover that the Jones hide under, so in that vein it would make a ton of sense for Cowboys fans to pull for a Philadelphia victory.

But then they’d have to live in a world where Eagles fans, the most smug, annoying awareness lacking people to jump in Cowboys’ fans social media mentions would be unbearable.

So which reality could Cowboys fans stand the least?