ESPN.com nails it

[RafaelG]

I am as big a Cowboy fan as any of you, and have been for 35 years. That said, the Steelers are truly Americas Team. No drama, no reality shows, no huge egos to stroke, no hard knocks, no overpriced free agents, no public lockeroom spats, no control freak owner, no cupcake coach. Just a bunch of blue collar TEAMATES that work their tails off to reach a common goal. Hats off to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The 'Stealers' are America's(Teflon)Team! That is what those SOB's are!
No drama??? A wife beater was the league's defensive 'MVP'(should have been Ware by a long shot). The 'MVP' of the SB was dealing drugs since childhood and AFTER he had been drafted by the 'Stealers'!!!

 

[Waffle]

Holloway...I think most rational Cowboy fans would agree that Pittsburgh is currently a better run organization right now than the Cowboys. They generally build through good drafts. They don't overpay for Free Agents and they cut the troublemakers. Their ownership takes a back seat to their coaching staff and those football people who they have hired to run the organization. For the most part, they let their older players sign elsewhere instead of resigning them to some ridiculous contract they'll never complete and that subsequently puts them in cap hell. They are the masters of "continuity" when it comes to coaches, having only three since I've been alive.

With all that said, your point is getting lost because you agree with the article and believe the Steelers are now "America's Team." They are not. Like others have pointed out, nicknames aren't transferrable. If our defense ranks #1 next year, will someone claim that they are the new "steel curtain"? No one is calling Baltimore or Pittsburgh's defense "Doomsday", are they? Why do those monikers remain attached to their respective franchises, yet everybody wants to try and annoint other teams "America's Team" each year?

Just like someone else posted earlier, is Pittsburgh now "Titletown USA" because they've won 6 Super Bowls? No...that will always be the Packers. I find it offensive when any one, sportswriter or not, tries to label another team with our nickname. By agreeing with the article, you are basically stomping on a Cowboy tradition and moniker that NO ONE else will ever have.

Now maybe you have a point about how the Steelers are run versus the way our Cowboys are run right now...but they aren't and never will be America's Team. There is only one America's Team...and that is and will always be the Dallas Cowboys.

 

[shnagy]

I am as big a Cowboy fan as any of you, and have been for 35 years. That said, the Steelers are truly Americas Team. No drama, no reality shows, no huge egos to stroke, no hard knocks, no overpriced free agents, no public lockeroom spats, no control freak owner, no cupcake coach. Just a bunch of blue collar TEAMATES that work their tails off to reach a common goal. Hats off to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Blue collar aye? A bunch of millionaires playing a sport being "blue collar?" Not exactly.

When you go up to someone randomly and ask, "who is America's team?" They aren't going to say "the Steelers" or whoever the flavor of the month is. They are going to say the Cowboys (unless they are a Skins fan lol). Sorry but "America's Team" will always be the Cowboys.

 

[Frosty]

I chuckle every time someone wants to peg another franchise as "America's Team."

Good luck with that. There is one team that gets America's attention in good times and bad, one team that is the most popular, most hated, most watched and best-selling team in the country, and it's not whatever team is the flavor of the month.

The Cowboys are America's Team, no matter how envious anyone is or how badly they want it to be otherwise.

Well said, but you have to have hand it to the steeler franchise, they are steady, constant and play football the way it should be.... Not like this current Cowboy franchise that plays and gets rating like Paris Hilton, Linzy Lohan and Brittany Spears pantyless drama escapades. I love the Cowboys, but How much drama can Jerry Jones put on a franchise before it Falls