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Keep Dallas in Dallas
When I think of the Cowboys, I think of "Dallas,'' the prime-time soap opera of a generation or so ago. Too rich, too ostentatious, too ...
Everything.
That's not the only reason "America's Team'' is also America's most hated sports franchise. But when the stereotype fits -- as in a new $1 billion-plus pleasure palace for the Cowboys' games -- you savor it. Was there anyone outside the Cowboys' considerable fan base who didn't enjoy watching Jerry Jones watch his team lose in the final seconds to the Giants in the first real game his team played there? Nobody I know.
A confession.
I liked Texas E. "Tex'' Schramm, the California-born president of the Cowboys for their first 29 years, the founder of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders and the man who created "America's Team.'' I love Gil Brandt, who put together those teams -- he's still a friend. I like Jerry, who can talk to reporters for hours without saying a thing. I liked Tom Landry and I like Jimmy Johnson and Roger Staubach andTroy Aikman and Michael Irvin and Tony Romo and a lot of Cowboys and ex-Cowboys, especially a very sharp former defensive end named Jim Jeffcoat who's now an assistant coach at the University of Houston.
I even like a lot of things about Texas, especially its homegrown brand of music.
Now comes the "but'' part.
What I don't like is the image that goes back to Larry Hagman as J.R. and the rest of big, rich, and ostentatious show that the new stadium represents. Nor am I alone. If the feeling is strongest in Washington, Philadelphia, New York and both ends of New Jersey, which have to deal with the Cowboys twice every football season, it exists also in places like Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Chicago and points west. We're a bipolar country -- a lot of us want to be big, rich and ostentatious but we don't like it in others, especially if they come from Texas.
Actually, I don't have a problem with Cowboys fans from Texas. Or from Arkansas, Oklahoma or New Mexico. Nor do most fans around the country. At least I don't think so.
It's the others -- the locals. The ones who want nothing more than to spoil the home team's party.
Yes, other NFL teams have subway alumni -- Pittsburgh and Green Bay to name two.
But think Steel City and think Cheesehead.
It doesn't raise the hackles like Dallas does.
When I think of the Cowboys, I think of "Dallas,'' the prime-time soap opera of a generation or so ago. Too rich, too ostentatious, too ...
Everything.
That's not the only reason "America's Team'' is also America's most hated sports franchise. But when the stereotype fits -- as in a new $1 billion-plus pleasure palace for the Cowboys' games -- you savor it. Was there anyone outside the Cowboys' considerable fan base who didn't enjoy watching Jerry Jones watch his team lose in the final seconds to the Giants in the first real game his team played there? Nobody I know.
A confession.
I liked Texas E. "Tex'' Schramm, the California-born president of the Cowboys for their first 29 years, the founder of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders and the man who created "America's Team.'' I love Gil Brandt, who put together those teams -- he's still a friend. I like Jerry, who can talk to reporters for hours without saying a thing. I liked Tom Landry and I like Jimmy Johnson and Roger Staubach andTroy Aikman and Michael Irvin and Tony Romo and a lot of Cowboys and ex-Cowboys, especially a very sharp former defensive end named Jim Jeffcoat who's now an assistant coach at the University of Houston.
I even like a lot of things about Texas, especially its homegrown brand of music.
Now comes the "but'' part.
What I don't like is the image that goes back to Larry Hagman as J.R. and the rest of big, rich, and ostentatious show that the new stadium represents. Nor am I alone. If the feeling is strongest in Washington, Philadelphia, New York and both ends of New Jersey, which have to deal with the Cowboys twice every football season, it exists also in places like Pittsburgh, Green Bay, Chicago and points west. We're a bipolar country -- a lot of us want to be big, rich and ostentatious but we don't like it in others, especially if they come from Texas.
Actually, I don't have a problem with Cowboys fans from Texas. Or from Arkansas, Oklahoma or New Mexico. Nor do most fans around the country. At least I don't think so.
It's the others -- the locals. The ones who want nothing more than to spoil the home team's party.
Yes, other NFL teams have subway alumni -- Pittsburgh and Green Bay to name two.
But think Steel City and think Cheesehead.
It doesn't raise the hackles like Dallas does.
