Just like this fan base could wait to see Green Bay Packers colors on new pass rusher Micah Parsons, I'm sure Dallas Cowboys fans had the same level of urgency but on the opposite end of the spectrum as they watched their defense collapse early on Thursday night.
To open up the season, Parsons' old team traveled to take on the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. And, on the Eagles' first two drives of the game, they marched down methodically and scored a pair of touchdowns.
It wasn't just the fact that the Eagles scored touchdowns, though, it was the way they did it. Both scores came on scrambles by quarterback Jalen Hurts, who made a mockery of the Cowboys' lack of a pass rush and toyed with a few defenders before ultimately taking off toward the end zone on both occasions.
Packers fans can only laugh as the Cowboys defense got shredded early without Micah Parsons
Jerry Jones certainly talked a lot about the idea of Parsons not being able to stop the run over the past few weeks. But, isn't it ironic that the Cowboys' inability to close on the quarterback led Hurts to a pair of early touchdown runs?
Oh, it's absolutely ironic. This is the ultimate irony, in fact.
Imagine being a Cowboys fan watching those two drives. It would have been hard to watch. If ever there was an obvious of all obvious outcomes in the immediate aftermath of a blockbuster trade, this was going to be it. The Cowboys defense was going to struggle.
On the flip side, Parsons now gets to join a winning culture in Green Bay where this team has done a lot of the right things, that every serious franchise should do, in order to win a Super Bowl.
The Cowboys would never.
And, for the foreseeable future, Dallas fans get to watch that Cowboys defense led by none other than ... Matt Eberflus. This really is some hilarious and fortunate alternate universe for the Packers.
Oh wait. No, it's reality.