No longer America's Team

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DandyDon52 said:
They are designed to be relevant,make money, and be entertaining, like a circus, it isnt designed to win championships.
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JoeKing said:
Does America even have a team anymore?
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Don't think so. With the advent of what, Direct TV? You can see any team every game, so people who grew up, say in Seattle, but now live in Miami, can still be Seahawks fans. Before, Dallas was on the tube so much and so often, in addition to winning so much, that those Seattle people could become Cowboys fans just because they saw them so much.

And I'm not talking about bandwagon fans, of which there are many, who change allegiances at the drop of a hat, again because it's so easy to see the "hot" team now.

Of course, and speaking hopefully not just as a Cowboys fan, in my view there can never be a different America's Team. That is a title that was bestowed on Dallas by NFL Films (with the Cowboys agreeing to it of course). If you now say a team like the Patriots are now America's Team, you have to start qualifying it with what time frame you're speaking of.

And I really don't think any other team wants that title, it's well known that Dallas got, and continues to get, so much hate because of it that other teams won't want to deal with that.

For good or bad, the Dallas Cowboys will always be "America's Team", regardless of how well, or bad, they play....
 
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LACowboysFan1 said:
Don't think so. With the advent of what, Direct TV? You can see any team every game, so people who grew up, say in Seattle, but now live in Miami, can still be Seahawks fans. Before, Dallas was on the tube so much and so often, in addition to winning so much, that those Seattle people could become Cowboys fans just because they saw them so much.

And I'm not talking about bandwagon fans, of which there are many, who change allegiances at the drop of a hat, again because it's so easy to see the "hot" team now.

Of course, and speaking hopefully not just as a Cowboys fan, in my view there can never be a different America's Team. That is a title that was bestowed on Dallas by NFL Films (with the Cowboys agreeing to it of course). If you now say a team like the Patriots are now America's Team, you have to start qualifying it with what time frame you're speaking of.

And I really don't think any other team wants that title, it's well known that Dallas got, and continues to get, so much hate because of it that other teams won't want to deal with that.

For good or bad, the Dallas Cowboys will always be "America's Team", regardless of how well, or bad, they play....
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I don't think so... 'merica moved on. :cool:
 
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I was a fan of this team way before the lable of America's Team was given. A name by the way that Landry hated. As far as America's team moniker today? Cowboys are still a major draw for the networks but in the end I always saw the Cowboys as my team how the rest of America felt about them I really never cared and still don't.
 
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JoeKing said:
I don't think so... 'merica moved on. :cool:
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Yes but there's still lots of us old fogeys around, not all Cowboys fans. Something like "America's Team" will hang around for a long long time, just a catchy name if nothing else.
 
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LACowboysFan1 said:
But if the Cowboys can win another SB, or at least get close for several years, that'll re-kindle it with younger fans...
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Everyone loves a winner so of course, you are right, but first, the Cowboys have to do their part of that equation and they are far from getting there.
 

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The term America's Team came from a documentary by NFL Films and Steve Sabol.
It's not a self appointed term.
All it did was paint a target on their backs for extra motivation to beat them.
Any team is welcome to take that title as far as I care.
 
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Hardline said:
The term America's Team came from a documentary by NFL Films and Steve Sabol.
It's not a self appointed term.
All it did was paint a target on their backs for extra motivation to beat them.
Any team is welcome to take that title as far as I care.
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The Cowboys were offered a choice of two names for the prior season by NFL Films - America's Team or Star Spangled Cowboys. They chose America's Team, so part of the blame lies with them, probably more specifically Tex Schramm, but that part I'm not sure of...
 
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EST_1986 said:
don't know what that means but KC is bringing in the bigger TV ratings these days
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If you say you "don't know what that means" then you are being intentionally deaf. You know what it means, you just choose to not acknowledge it's meaning in a passive-aggressive attempt to ignore it. Being "America's Team" wasn't about TV ratings when the moniker was coined but it is just what you choose to make of it now. America still pays attention to the Cowboys. Virtually all NFL fans want to see their games... if not to see them win, then certainly to see them lose.
 
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