Doomsdayblitz
Cogan
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I know ahead of time I'm going to be blasted for this, but I don't care. It is time to move on when it comes to naming our defense of a particular era. Cowboy fans are the only ones that want to tightly hold on to that name of the 70s.
Steelers fans don't call their defense the "Steel Curtain" anymore. That name was reserved for the vaunted Steelers' defense of the 70s that helped win 4 Super Bowls. The name they use now for their defense is "Blitzburg". Pretty cool name, even though I hate the team.
You don't hear Minnesota fans calling their team the "Purple People Eaters", do you? That, too, was for a different team in a different era.
No "Fearsome Foursome" in St. Loius, right?
Cleveland still holds on to their "Dog Pound" of the 80s, but it's just not the same.
I haven't heard the Bears called the "Monsters of the Midway" for quite some time.
If all of these other team's fans can understand that those particular nicknames were reserved for a particular group of players of a particular era, then why in heaven's name can't Cowboys' fans do the same.
Every time Dallas starts to show a dominating defense, there is one & ONLY one name that begins to be called out-----DOOMSDAY.
Why? Wasn't that the name of the Cowboy's defensive unit of the late 60s-mid-70s? Why can't we just let them have their name? Are Cowboy fans that inept at coming up with creative names? Why do we have to just keep attaching another Roman numeral to the same name given to a fine, very special group of Cowboys of another time?
Don't you see? After a while, we're going to forget which players belong to which Doomsday. Wait a minute-didn't DeMarcus Ware belong to Doomsday III, or was it IV? Pretty soon, the name gets so watered down, it doesn't mean much to the players given the name......"...and now, that monster pass rusher who hounded QBs for years as a member of Doomsday XXIVIII, Frank 'Killer' Kowalski!". Sounds ridiculous, eh?
I try never to complain about a subject without coming up with a solution. Why don't we hold a contest among Cowboys fans on this site to name the defense that we have NOW. I know that most of us believe it is becoming loaded with enough talent, that it is going to be one of the best "Ds" in the NFL for the next 5-6 years or more. That qualifies as being deserving a nickname to go along with it. I'm sure the moderators here could come up with a cool prize of some kind, along with guidelines for the contest.
Come on! Let's give this defense a name of its own, & stop trying to live in the past. Doomsday was a great defense, but it's gone. Time to move on to another era of great Cowboys' football.
Steelers fans don't call their defense the "Steel Curtain" anymore. That name was reserved for the vaunted Steelers' defense of the 70s that helped win 4 Super Bowls. The name they use now for their defense is "Blitzburg". Pretty cool name, even though I hate the team.
You don't hear Minnesota fans calling their team the "Purple People Eaters", do you? That, too, was for a different team in a different era.
No "Fearsome Foursome" in St. Loius, right?
Cleveland still holds on to their "Dog Pound" of the 80s, but it's just not the same.
I haven't heard the Bears called the "Monsters of the Midway" for quite some time.
If all of these other team's fans can understand that those particular nicknames were reserved for a particular group of players of a particular era, then why in heaven's name can't Cowboys' fans do the same.
Every time Dallas starts to show a dominating defense, there is one & ONLY one name that begins to be called out-----DOOMSDAY.
Why? Wasn't that the name of the Cowboy's defensive unit of the late 60s-mid-70s? Why can't we just let them have their name? Are Cowboy fans that inept at coming up with creative names? Why do we have to just keep attaching another Roman numeral to the same name given to a fine, very special group of Cowboys of another time?
Don't you see? After a while, we're going to forget which players belong to which Doomsday. Wait a minute-didn't DeMarcus Ware belong to Doomsday III, or was it IV? Pretty soon, the name gets so watered down, it doesn't mean much to the players given the name......"...and now, that monster pass rusher who hounded QBs for years as a member of Doomsday XXIVIII, Frank 'Killer' Kowalski!". Sounds ridiculous, eh?
I try never to complain about a subject without coming up with a solution. Why don't we hold a contest among Cowboys fans on this site to name the defense that we have NOW. I know that most of us believe it is becoming loaded with enough talent, that it is going to be one of the best "Ds" in the NFL for the next 5-6 years or more. That qualifies as being deserving a nickname to go along with it. I'm sure the moderators here could come up with a cool prize of some kind, along with guidelines for the contest.
Come on! Let's give this defense a name of its own, & stop trying to live in the past. Doomsday was a great defense, but it's gone. Time to move on to another era of great Cowboys' football.
