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[DallasEast]

this was in a newspaper?

This fair weather fan stuff makes me so mad. That is one of the reasons I hated owens coming here, it brought out even more of the bandwagoners and gives the bulk of us a bad name.

Man I hope we keep winning.

PREACH IT!

 

[Doomsday]

Ha! Better tell the woman in Philly to stop wearing their Romo jerseys, the further Dallas goes the more bent up frustration there will be to take out on them.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

Wow, that article was dripping of anger, frustration, resentment, and jealousy what makes it all the more enjoyable is that you KNOW it is very representative of Eagles fans feelings across the globe.

I must say that the media is over-doing the Cowboy love though,,,

 

[Yakuza Rich]

the team's miserable fair-weather fans will begin slithering out from their hiding places like filthy, front-running cockroaches.

Here's what the anti-Cowboys fans always ignore.

According to Harris Interactive polls, Dallas has been the #1 favorite team of football fans across the nation since 1998. For years we kept hearing how this team hasn't won a playoff game since '96, yet during this time we were the most favorite team of football fans across the nation.

Perhaps there was some bandwagon, front running fans back in the early 90's, but those days have been long gone. Instead, looking at the Eagles' popularity, you'll see a team that went from 20th in popularity to 5th in just one year (2003-2004), which coincidentally came when they went to the Super Bowl.

NFL fans really love the Cowboys, regardless of what they do. Eagles fans only like them when they do well...aka, front running fans.


http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/pubs/Harris_Poll_2009_10_07.pdf







YAKUZA

 

[Yakuza Rich]

this was in a newspaper?

This fair weather fan stuff makes me so mad. That is one of the reasons I hated owens coming here, it brought out even more of the bandwagoners and gives the bulk of us a bad name.

It really didn't. That was the *perception*, but the reality is we were the most popular team in the NFL, even during the Chan Gailey years.





YAKUZA

 

[newlander]

"crying" and comparing losing a game to walking in on your woman with another man? WTH...pathetic losers.

 

[DallasEast]

Here's what the anti-Cowboys fans always ignore.

According to Harris Interactive polls, Dallas has been the #1 favorite team of football fans across the nation since 1998. For years we kept hearing how this team hasn't won a playoff game since '96, yet during this time we were the most favorite team of football fans across the nation.

Perhaps there was some bandwagon, front running fans back in the early 90's, but those days have been long gone. Instead, looking at the Eagles' popularity, you'll see a team that went from 20th in popularity to 5th in just one year (2003-2004), which coincidentally came when they went to the Super Bowl.

NFL fans really love the Cowboys, regardless of what they do. Eagles fans only like them when they do well...aka, front running fans.


http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/pubs/Harris_Poll_2009_10_07.pdf







YAKUZA

:clap2: However, I would change "Here's what the anti-Cowboys fans always ignore." to "Here's what the anti-Cowboys fans (and even a minute segment of cowboyszone) always ignore."

 

[Huntstyle]

"Do I think that we can close that gap? Absolutely, and we'll do that."

Notice how he doesn't say anything along the lines of beating us next year, just basically that they wont' lose as badly!

I also love how the writer talks about fair-weather fans, then tells everyone to buy something purple. Hypocrite much?

 

[goliadmike]

This ****** used to write for the Dallas observer. From the Filthy Inquirer

John Gonzalez

John Gonzalez is a local product who was exiled for a time and forced to live among cretins in Dallas and Boston. He’s back home now, much to the chagrin of his friends and family. For a while, he thought he might get into politics, and ran for U.S. Congress. It's true. Then he was beaten worse than George McGovern in '72. Also true. He plans to stick with writing for a while.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

The Cowboys(and their fans) get an inordinant amount of abuse from the media and other fans whenever the team isn't doing well,,, I think this keeps many fans from showing their allegiance unless things are going great.

 

[DallasEast]

This ****** used to write for the Dallas observer. From the Filthy Inquirer

John Gonzalez

John Gonzalez is a local product who was exiled for a time and forced to live among cretins in Dallas and Boston. He’s back home now, much to the chagrin of his friends and family. For a while, he thought he might get into politics, and ran for U.S. Congress. It's true. Then he was beaten worse than George McGovern in '72. Also true. He plans to stick with writing for a while.

Thank you for posting this. I clicked on the link to verify what you posted. Philly.com should be ashamed. That is so unprofessional.

 

[AsthmaField]

God yes.

One of my employees wore a Dallas shirt on Monday.

This guy has made fun of them for years now ...... took great joy in asking me how they did if they lost ..... and now claims to always have been a fan.

I should fire him ....... but he is married to my first cousin.

(and he is one of my best friends)

That's pretty much how I view all the Tony Romo critics who said they wanted to trade him because he is awful and now they all say how great he is.

"I just wanted him to be smart with the ball and now he is."

Give me a break.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Good. I hope it just continues to kill you, hurt your soul, make you cry, have your wives cheat on you and all that as we go on and win the Superbowl this year.


It's hilarious how any other team making improvement and trying to win a Superbowl is confident, having fun, doing their job but when Dallas does it then they're arrogant.


I love seeing the empty trophy case for the Eagles and I really hope it stays that way my whole lifetime and that the Cowboys add at least 8 or 10 more of them to their trophy case in my lifetime.

 

[JPM]

Cry, Eagles, cry...

and suffer, Eagles, suffer.

 

[miamicowboy21]

This just confirms what we already knew, the beagles are jealous of us. This same article has been written 1,000 times, but the premise is still the same.

 

[trickblue]

The Cowboys(and their fans) get an inordinant amount of abuse from the media and other fans whenever the team isn't doing well,,, I think this keeps many fans from showing their allegiance unless things are going great.

Exactly... the fact of the matter is that there is a certain percentage of our population that are frontrunners and always have to be first...

How many Patriot jerseys did you see around town before the Brady era?

Those same fans were wearing Stealer jerseys up until two weeks ago, and likely have eight jersey pages bookmarked at nfl.com pending the outcome of the Super Bowl...

 

[Dallas]

Gonzo: Cowboys are back, and it's galling
By John Gonzalez

Inquirer Columnist

It was sort of like walking in on your woman with another man - unexpected and awful. You recoiled and got angry (and maybe cried a little), and now you can't get the image out of your head. It's there when you close your eyes at night, mocking you.

There was Jerry Jones, smiling and mugging for the camera in his box at Cowboys Stadium. There was George W. Bush with a look of similar satisfaction. And then they embraced. And then the rest of us tried not to vomit.

Everything is relative. Less than a week after the 'Boys "sting they [backside]" (hi, DJacc), the most disappointing thing about the Eagles' season is that they served as confidence boosters for an organization that hadn't won a playoff game since 1996. For years, the Cowboys left their cleats untied and tripped all over the field. They were utter buffoons, making wrong move (Tank Johnson) after wrong move (Pacman Jones) after wrong move (Terrell Owens). And now, one season after the Birds dispatched them with a 44-6 year-end drubbing at the Linc, the 'Boys are back and just as smug as ever.

"We didn't have to play our best game," Tony Romo said after Saturday's smackdown, insulting the Eagles after injuring their pride and ending their season. And here's the hard truth: He was right.

It's bad enough that the Eagles are out of the playoffs and we're once more forced to wait for next year. It's just as bad, though, that the 'Boys have become America's darlings again, trumpeted by talking heads across the land as a hot team with a real chance of going deep into the playoffs.

And the Birds? Now they're sitting around talking about what went wrong and how they can figure out a way to keep up with the Joneses. Welcome to your nightmare, Eagles fans.

"I think the Cowboys were probably sitting in the same position we are last year," Andy Reid said. "They were looking at this going, 'Doggone, the Eagles got after us pretty good.' They went back to the drawing board and they answered that question. Do I think that we can close that gap? Absolutely, and we'll do that. I'm going to make sure we do that. That's a great goal for us as players and coaches."

There are some important football games this weekend, but none carries bigger implications than the Dallas-Minnesota matchup. The Vikings are favored by three, which is Vegas' way of saying the teams are pretty evenly matched. If the Favres win, they will do the country a great favor by holding back this growing swell of Cowboys momentum and arrogance.

If the 'Boys win, brace yourself. Not only will Dallas then be just one win away from the Super Bowl, the team's miserable fair-weather fans will begin slithering out from their hiding places like philthy, front-running cockroaches. All the Raid in the world won't be able to beat them back. It's ugly enough around here right now without having to deal with all that.

Buy something purple this weekend. Wear it proudly.



Nothing better then unhappy Filthydelphians!!!!!!

That was SO a typo for the author. I FIFH though.

 

[gimmesix]

If the 'Boys win, brace yourself. Not only will Dallas then be just one win away from the Super Bowl, the team's miserable fair-weather fans will begin slithering out from their hiding places like filthy, front-running cockroaches. All the Raid in the world won't be able to beat them back. It's ugly enough around here right now without having to deal with all that.

To a degree, he's right. All of us on this messageboard are pretty much die-hards that support (or complain about) our team through thick and thin. This past week, I can't count how many supposed Cowboys fans I've ran into. They know I'm one by what I wear throughout the years, even after bad games, and the interest I show. But I would have never guessed on them, even the ones I'm around pretty often.

This team probably has more bandwagon jumpers than any other in the league. ... But it probably also has the widest base of loyal fans in the country.

 

[gimmesix]

Here's what the anti-Cowboys fans always ignore.

According to Harris Interactive polls, Dallas has been the #1 favorite team of football fans across the nation since 1998. For years we kept hearing how this team hasn't won a playoff game since '96, yet during this time we were the most favorite team of football fans across the nation.

Perhaps there was some bandwagon, front running fans back in the early 90's, but those days have been long gone. Instead, looking at the Eagles' popularity, you'll see a team that went from 20th in popularity to 5th in just one year (2003-2004), which coincidentally came when they went to the Super Bowl.

NFL fans really love the Cowboys, regardless of what they do. Eagles fans only like them when they do well...aka, front running fans.


http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/pubs/Harris_Poll_2009_10_07.pdf







YAKUZA

Good point. I guess all teams have their share of front-running fans. It's just that with the Cowboys, we have so many fans to start with (just look at the ratings) that when the bandwagoners join, it's impossible to ignore them.

 

[Gryphon]

Gonzo: Cowboys are back, and it's galling
By John Gonzalez
Inquirer Columnist

It was sort of like walking in on your woman with another man - unexpected and awful. You recoiled and got angry (and maybe cried a little), and now you can't get the image out of your head. It's there when you close your eyes at night, mocking you.

There was Jerry Jones, smiling and mugging for the camera in his box at Cowboys Stadium. There was George W. Bush with a look of similar satisfaction. And then they embraced. And then the rest of us tried not to vomit.

Everything is relative. Less than a week after the 'Boys "sting they [backside]" (hi, DJacc), the most disappointing thing about the Eagles' season is that they served as confidence boosters for an organization that hadn't won a playoff game since 1996. For years, the Cowboys left their cleats untied and tripped all over the field. They were utter buffoons, making wrong move (Tank Johnson) after wrong move (Pacman Jones) after wrong move (Terrell Owens). And now, one season after the Birds dispatched them with a 44-6 year-end drubbing at the Linc, the 'Boys are back and just as smug as ever.

"We didn't have to play our best game," Tony Romo said after Saturday's smackdown, insulting the Eagles after injuring their pride and ending their season. And here's the hard truth: He was right.

It's bad enough that the Eagles are out of the playoffs and we're once more forced to wait for next year. It's just as bad, though, that the 'Boys have become America's darlings again, trumpeted by talking heads across the land as a hot team with a real chance of going deep into the playoffs.

And the Birds? Now they're sitting around talking about what went wrong and how they can figure out a way to keep up with the Joneses. Welcome to your nightmare, Eagles fans.

"I think the Cowboys were probably sitting in the same position we are last year," Andy Reid said. "They were looking at this going, 'Doggone, the Eagles got after us pretty good.' They went back to the drawing board and they answered that question. Do I think that we can close that gap? Absolutely, and we'll do that. I'm going to make sure we do that. That's a great goal for us as players and coaches."

There are some important football games this weekend, but none carries bigger implications than the Dallas-Minnesota matchup. The Vikings are favored by three, which is Vegas' way of saying the teams are pretty evenly matched. If the Favres win, they will do the country a great favor by holding back this growing swell of Cowboys momentum and arrogance.

If the 'Boys win, brace yourself. Not only will Dallas then be just one win away from the Super Bowl , the team's miserable fair-weather fans will begin slithering out from their hiding places like filthy, front-running cockroaches. All the Raid in the world won't be able to beat them back. It's ugly enough around here right now without having to deal with all that.


Buy something purple this weekend. Wear it proudly.