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Just when you think you know the Cowboys and the Webster's Online Dictionary version of the word "no," along come the Washington Redskins and Tony Wyllie, their senior VP of communications.
First, Colt McCoy climbs out of his Halloween storage box in Dan Snyder's basement and stops the Cowboys' six-game winning streak right under Jerry Jones' new nose. Then he tries to stop and talk about it with ESPN Deportes before being put back on the storage shelf next to the stack of insensitivity training handbooks.
But along comes Wyllie with a definition for "no" that's 254 words shorter and a lot grouchier than the ones Webster uses to help explain the word. After breaking things up and whisking McCoy back into Robert Griffin III's shadow, Wyllie turned and delivered his exclamation point, which became a popular Internet video clip of him yelling, "NO MEANS NO!"
Wyllie later explained that McCoy needed to attend Jay Gruden's postgame speech. ESPN later explained that it thought "no" meant "there are no more human beings with full heads of hair left on earth to hire."
Here are some other possible interpretations of the word "no":
WAS +2½ at MIN
Vikings 17, Redskins 10
In Minneapolis, when it comes to stadiums, "No" means "no, no, maybe, probably," and "OK, OK, OK. We'll pay! Ouch, Mr. Goodell, you're hurting my arm!"
