New Answer to an old Question

What's more slippery than a football in Tommy Hutton's hands? Used to be nothing.

And back in the day, that was a refrain that would send daggers through the heart of an Eagles fan anywhere. However,--in a moment offered as proof that should you live long enough you're bound to see history repeating itself--after Saturday night the answer is new and different:

All Tony Romo had to do was put the ball down and let Martin Gramatica make an easy kick -- just 19 yards, even closer than an extra point.

That's where it all slipped away from the Dallas Cowboys. The Pro Bowl quarterback who saved their season ended it, too.

Romo's bobble on the field-goal try with 1:19 left led to a scramble that ended 2 yards shy of the end zone and a yard short of a first down, preserving a 21-20 victory for the Seattle Seahawks in the wildest of wild-card games Saturday night.

Just like Eagles' punter Tommy Hutton before him, Romo's botched hold cost his team the game and now leaves him the butt of more jokes than any will wish to count. Most importantly though for Eagles fans, his bad-hands moment marks an exact place in time where they've been freed from the shackles of Hutton's infamous mistake.

Free at last, Thank God almighty, free at last!