Red Dragon
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Pretend for a moment that you're Jerry Jones, sitting and ruminating in your office as you gaze at the memorabilia on the walls.
Your Cowboys have the most followers on Facebook, the highest TV ratings, the most fans, the most revenue, the highest value, but they are really, just, coasting on.......something. They're coasting on the greatness of the past.
They won 5 Super Bowls.......but even the most recent was a quarter-century ago.
They've won playoff games........but only three in the past 23 years.
They have a big and great stadium, but that stadium is 11 years old, and plenty of teams have nice new stadiums these days.
They have a nice-looking uniform and helmet, but that's subjective anyway, and so do some other teams.
At a certain point, this momentum is bound to run out. How long can this continue before eventually the Cowboys see their TV ratings slipping, their value crashing, the revenue crashing, fans no longer following on Facebook, before the Cowboys become just another team, one out of 32, no more recognizable or care-about-able than any of the other 31? The youngest generation of NFL fans already cares relatively little for Dallas or about Dallas.
Using a glider as an analogy, you can glide really far by getting an immensely strong boost at the beginning, but sooner or later you're going to start to dip and crash as that momentum peters out. Are we nearing it?
Your Cowboys have the most followers on Facebook, the highest TV ratings, the most fans, the most revenue, the highest value, but they are really, just, coasting on.......something. They're coasting on the greatness of the past.
They won 5 Super Bowls.......but even the most recent was a quarter-century ago.
They've won playoff games........but only three in the past 23 years.
They have a big and great stadium, but that stadium is 11 years old, and plenty of teams have nice new stadiums these days.
They have a nice-looking uniform and helmet, but that's subjective anyway, and so do some other teams.
At a certain point, this momentum is bound to run out. How long can this continue before eventually the Cowboys see their TV ratings slipping, their value crashing, the revenue crashing, fans no longer following on Facebook, before the Cowboys become just another team, one out of 32, no more recognizable or care-about-able than any of the other 31? The youngest generation of NFL fans already cares relatively little for Dallas or about Dallas.
Using a glider as an analogy, you can glide really far by getting an immensely strong boost at the beginning, but sooner or later you're going to start to dip and crash as that momentum peters out. Are we nearing it?