{"id":265162,"date":"2025-09-30T00:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265162\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:36:23","slug":"fans-have-mixed-reactions-as-cowboys-and-packers-tie-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265162\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans have mixed reactions as Cowboys and Packers tie \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Night Football had highs, lows, but ended somewhere in between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/sports\/micah-parsons-hyped-return-to-dallas-ends-with-cowboys-and-packers-in-40-40-tie\/3925171\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">when the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers tied at 40 apiece. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an outcome that has some fans at The Star in Frisco feeling very vanilla.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was like, meh, like it wasn\u2019t a good ending,\u201d said one fan from Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, don\u2019t know what to feel. Usually, you walk out of the game, you\u2019re like aww, you win, you\u2019re like yeah, and now you\u2019re like &#8216;Ehhhh?&#8217;\u201d said a fan from Midland, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like it, but I understand that rules change,\u201d a Packers fan said.<\/p>\n<p>But it isn&#8217;t just fans feeling underwhelmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t play this game for ties,\u201d said Cowboys Quarterback Dak Prescott. \u201cRight now it\u2019s tough for me, but guess 10 years in, the first time I\u2019ve ever been a part of, it&#8217;s kind of hard to wrap my head around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys say the last time the team tied was in 1969.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/sports\/blue-star\/nfl-overtime-rules\/3925493\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New 2025 NFL regular season rules give both teams the opportunity to possess the ball at least once during overtime.<\/a> At the end of a 10-minute OT session, if the score is still tied, the game ends in a tie.<\/p>\n<p>The NFL says the rule changed, in part, for player safety.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Zoricelis Davila is a psychotherapist in North Texas who explained why fans feel unsettled when there&#8217;s a tie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels like a failure. I didn\u2019t achieve something. I didn\u2019t get to where I wanted. I didn\u2019t get to celebrate, or I didn\u2019t get to grieve and so that is unresolved,\u201d said Dr. Davila.<\/p>\n<p>She says fans feel the need for closure and want a winner or loser after four hours of football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday Night Football had highs, lows, but ended somewhere in between when the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,138435,1596,8998,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-265162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-blue-star","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-cowboys","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115290451905520158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}