Why Dallas Deserves To Play Tampa For Season Opener

JoeKing

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No problem at all.

I'm also not trying to be right....I just noticed the possibility before I heard it elsewhere and when I saw the other options....I knew it would happen.

I'd rather play them any other week than that opener.

They are going to be as fired up as possible and treat it like a second SB in the same spot.

Teams like then often suffer SB hangovers, but it won't have kicked in yet for them in week one lol.

Hope I'm wrong but there are 16 other games.
I see it just the opposite way. The Bucs will never be more off their game than they will be in week 1. I looked at them last year and they weren't really all that until later in the season. I suspect the same will be true about them this season as well. I have no doubt Tom Brady will have that offense clicking on all cylinders by the end of the season but not the first few weeks.
 

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Know why Dallas deserves it and Tampa Bay wants it? The 6-10 Cowboys are a hell of a lot better draw than the SB champs with Brady. They've got a guaranteed audience now.

I'd bet Prescott would smoke Brady in a fans like poll. Hell, Brady's own teammates don't want to high five him. There's just something about him that makes him unlikable. I heard the Patriots FO met with him prior to the draft for 30 minutes. They had planned on taking him in the 1st round but every five minutes they spent talking to him, he dropped a round. If he'd stayed 40 minutes, he would have been a UDFA like Romo.
 

Oz-of-Cowboy-Country

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Dallas earned their fanbase, so they do deserve to be put on display more than other teams.

The NFL knows who their money makers are...cause they've been pimping them for years.
 

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Know why Dallas deserves it and Tampa Bay wants it? The 6-10 Cowboys are a hell of a lot better draw than the SB champs with Brady. They've got a guaranteed audience now.

I'd bet Prescott would smoke Brady in a fans like poll. Hell, Brady's own teammates don't want to high five him. There's just something about him that makes him unlikable.
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Preach it CC. Good post!
 

Big_D

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They got the name and the credibility and the following because they won, now it's just a shell of what it used to mean. America's team sits home every January and yet people still watch??? Still actually care who wins the Super Bowl while the most popular team in all the world is never in the conversation. How non competitive do they have to be?
 

Oz-of-Cowboy-Country

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They got the name and the credibility and the following because they won, now it's just a shell of what it used to mean. America's team sits home every January and yet people still watch??? Still actually care who wins the Super Bowl while the most popular team in all the world is never in the conversation. How non competitive do they have to be?
They'll get there if they only win three playoff games in the next 25 years.

That's three by 2046.
 

cowboy_ron

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Ok. But how did they get branded "America's Team" in the first place?
By winning, and at one time highly regarded as the best sports organization in America.
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I'm making a judgement on who's more worthy to play the past year's champions. That seem silly to me.
Steve Sabol of NFL films put that label on us back in the 70's....the Cowboys organization had nothing to do with it...they just smartly capitalized from it.
 

Shane612

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Steve Sabol of NFL films put that label on us back in the 70's....the Cowboys organization had nothing to do with it...they just smartly capitalized from it.
It was actually John Facenda.
No offense, but your response doesn't make sense. Of course they had something to do with it. It wouldn't have made any sense to call the Tampa Bay buccs the America's Team at the time.
 

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------I actually think that we win this game.

The league ain't letting that happen!
 

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Steve Sabol of NFL films put that label on us back in the 70's....the Cowboys organization had nothing to do with it...they just smartly capitalized from it.
Nice seeing you again dear. Keep straightening them out lol. Somebody has to do it! ;)
 
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