Just a Quick Question

[DallasCowboysRule!]

How did we get the name America's Team. Did the media give us this name or what?

 

[The30YardSlant]

Late 1970s. The media wanted to dub the Steelers "America's Team", but they wanted no part of it, so it landed in the Cowboys lap.

 

[America's Team]

i dont mind the name at all

 

[America's Team]

America’s Team is an established term used to describe the Dallas Cowboys franchise that plays in the NFC East of the National Football League.
Bob Ryan, the Vice President and editor-in-chief of NFL Films, coined this for the Cowboys in 1979. After preparing and editing the team’s 1978 season highlight film he had to come up with a title for the film. He was quoted as saying:
"After the '78 season, the Cowboys had just lost a crushing Super Bowl to the Steelers. I wanted to come up with a different twist on their team highlight film. I noticed then, and had noticed earlier, that wherever the Cowboys played, you saw people in the stands with Cowboys jerseys and hats and pennants. Plus, they were always the national game on television." Drawing upon this inspiration and that of other nationally followed sports teams, such as the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in college football and the Boston Celtics in pro basketball, which Ryan said "are all America’s teams," he decided to use America’s Team as the name of the highlight film.
During the Cowboys' first game of the 1979 season, a nationally televised game against the St. Louis Cardinals (which Dallas won 22-21), the television announcer introduced the Cowboys as America’s Team and the nickname stuck.
Originally, Dallas’ Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry did not approve of the appellation. He felt that it would give opposing teams extra incentive to play harder. Eventually he gave in and actually came to like the name.
In 2003, NFL Films released a DVD collection chronicling the Dallas Cowboys franchise entitled The Dallas Cowboys: The Complete History of America's Team 1960-2003

 

[Tuna Helper]

I was listening to 610 AM WIP in Philly, and they said that Tex Schramm coined the phrase all on his own.

:laugh2:

Philiadelphians have to be the dumbest people on the face of the earth (no offense to any Zone posters who live there).

 

[America's Team]

I love the name "America's Team" I have a Cowboys Jacket that on the side has an American flag and under it, it says "America's Team", everyone at my school hates it when i refer to them as America's Team especially the Patriot fans

 

[jazzcat22]

Late 1970s. The media wanted to dub the Steelers "America's Team", but they wanted no part of it, so it landed in the Cowboys lap.

No, that's not how it was.

 

[DallasCowboysRule!]

Thanks guys. I knew someone on here would know.

THis all came up when I was arguing with a bears fan on another board. We have officially made a bet by the way. Here's the rules:

-If the Bears win the Super Bowl I have to have a Bears avatar
-If the Cowboys Win the SuperBowl he has to have a Cowboy avatar
-If neither wins then the bet is off
-The avatar must remain up untill the first game of next years pre-season

So, in the rare rare instance that the Cowboys win the SuperBowl, anybody got a great pic I could use that he could use as an avatar. Preferrably one that shows the Cowboys dominance over the Bears.

 

[jazzcat22]

Thanks guys. I knew someone on here would know.

THis all came up when I was arguing with a bears fan on another board. We have officially made a bet by the way. Here's the rules:

-If the Bears win the Super Bowl I have to have a Bears avatar
-If the Cowboys Win the SuperBowl he has to have a Cowboy avatar
-If neither wins then the bet is off
-The avatar must remain up untill the first game of next years pre-season

So, in the rare rare instance that the Cowboys win the SuperBowl, anybody got a great pic I could use that he could use as an avatar. Preferrably one that shows the Cowboys dominance over the Bears.

If I can find my football cards, I would scan in the Pro Set football card of Emmitt Smith running against the Bears from the 91 playoffs I believe.

 

[jp54]

You can't beat me Dallas:

 

[Doomsday101]

How did we get the name America's Team. Did the media give us this name or what?

NFL Films called us America's Team and it has stuck ever since.

 

[jp54]

By the way this is a really nice forum

 

[skinsscalper]

By the way this is a really nice forum

Hey jp . Nice to have you onboard. BTW the Bears are looking SCARY damn good this year. Good luck except when/if you play the Boys.



SS

 

[DragonCowboy]

Yeah that wasn't a good bet.

The Bears have 1000x better chance to win the Super bowl than we do.

 

[WV Cowboy]

America’s Team is an established term used to describe the Dallas Cowboys franchise that plays in the NFC East of the National Football League.
Bob Ryan, the Vice President and editor-in-chief of NFL Films, coined this for the Cowboys in 1979. After preparing and editing the team’s 1978 season highlight film he had to come up with a title for the film. He was quoted as saying:
"After the '78 season, the Cowboys had just lost a crushing Super Bowl to the Steelers. I wanted to come up with a different twist on their team highlight film. I noticed then, and had noticed earlier, that wherever the Cowboys played, you saw people in the stands with Cowboys jerseys and hats and pennants. Plus, they were always the national game on television."

Ding, Ding, Ding, ... we have the winner !