The Dallas Cowboys, and the win that wasn’t.

Trash Dispatch: IRVING - Nobody wanted to see the torch passed like this.

Tony Romo is the NFC’s best quarterback on what is now the conference’s best team. He proved that Thursday night in Dallas’ 37-27 home victory over Green Bay.

It’s just a shame the player Romo wrestled that distinction from didn’t even last until halftime.

Brett Favre — Romo’s childhood football hero and the legend to whom his helter-skelter style is most compared — was sidelined early in the second quarter. Packers coach Mike McCarthy played dumb about his quarterback’s health after the game, but Favre admitted he suffered a separated left shoulder and injured a nerve in his right forearm/elbow. Favre was in so much pain initially that he compared the right arm injury to being hit in the funny bone — only “10 times as hard with a hammer.”

Cheeseheads shouldn’t panic yet. Favre plans to play Dec. 9 against Oakland, which is what you would expect from a quarterback who has started an NFL-record 269 consecutive games (including the postseason). By then, Favre hopes the swelling in his elbow dissipates, the numbness in two of his right fingers fades and the shoulder is “one of those things you can shoot up and play with.”

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