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The final (and richest) straggler of football season has arrived: the NFL’s first game of the year. It graces your screens this evening and will begin six months of uninterrupted pigskin. Congratulations to all of us.  Our opening course? The Cowboys, who just endured one of the stranger offseasons in recent history, travel to play the defending champion Eagles, a picture of stability. Newsletters managing editor...

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