Diehardblues
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Something like that. I think from the NFL films guy that coined the phrase and it spread from there. I’ve never liked it.Do you know how it all started? Back in the 60's NFL films started doing a highlight film every year for each team and they named each one. Well in 70 or 71 when they did the Cowboys highlight reel they named it America's Team. Well a L.A. sportswriter hears this and wrote an article about it and Howard Cosell who at the time besides doing MNF had a 5 minute radio show twice a day in the morning and afternoon called Howard Cosell speaking of sports and after reading that article he mentioned it on his radio show. A couple weeks later the Cowboys were on MNF and Cosell agin brought it up and called the Cowboys America's Team a few times during the game and from then on the Cowboys were known as America's Team.
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Our fans who hopped on across the country appear to embrace it more than the locals.