Why do idiots try and take "Americas Team"

[lqmac1]

Away from Dallas. We don't go around calling ourselves 'Da boys' or 'who Dat' nation. It's like, get off our nuts, man!

We have the largest following by a long shot. We actually double Pitt (2nd).

 

[TheCowboy]

Jealousy. Seriously.

 

[jday]

Who dat messing with da boys?

 

[Wheeltax]

Jealousy.

Of all the dumb internet memes that have made me pretty much stop following NFL/ESPN on Facebook, I do like the one with a picture of the Cowboys SB rings that says (paraphrased) "If Dallas won their Super Bowls so long ago, why haven't you caught up?"

Generally followed by a litany of nonsense about Romo and whining about who America's Team is.

 

[casmith07]

You answered your own question in your title - they're idiots.

 

[Idgit]

Jealousy.

Of all the dumb internet memes that have made me pretty much stop following NFL/ESPN on Facebook, I do like the one with a picture of the Cowboys SB rings that says (paraphrased) "If Dallas won their Super Bowls so long ago, why haven't you caught up?"

Generally followed by a litany of nonsense about Romo and whining about who America's Team is.

Liking this because your sig cracks me up every time I see it.

 

[Wheeltax]

Liking this because your sig cracks me up every time I see it.

coincidentally, I stole that from one of those NFL/ESPN threads full of dumb image memes!

 

[RonSpringsdaman20]

we don't care...
we are americas team.

 

[iceberg]

Away from Dallas. We don't go around calling ourselves 'Da boys' or 'who Dat' nation. It's like, get off our nuts, man!

We have the largest following by a long shot. We actually double Pitt (2nd).

Cause it gets a reaction

 

[Bay10]

Dan Patrick asked Al Michaels this exact question several months back. Al said love em or hate no team draws the ratings the Cowboys do.. He said half the country hates them and half the country likes them. He said show me another team that half the country likes and we would put them on prime time as much as the Dallas Cowboys.

 

[ErikWilliamsHeadSlap]

we are the straw that stirs the drink.They crave what we have...attention.

 

[BringBackThatOleTimeBoys]

...but doesn't that moniker imply a certain level of excellence? And if it's been absent for more than a few years, would that make the Cowboys vulnerable if they keep calliing themselves America's Team?

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

...but doesn't that moniker imply a certain level of excellence? And if it's been absent for more than a few years, would that make the Cowboys vulnerable if they keep calliing themselves America's Team?

No because the ones that hate us like to see us suffer. It's payback time for all the years we ruined their teams chances.

 

[TheCount]

"I don't even know what that means.."
"No one knows what it means, but it's provocative!"
"No it's not, it's gross."
"It gets the people going!"

 

[Bullflop]

Other teams find it a hard pill to swallow anytime a team can remain so popular, even when they've been mediocre for many years. Whether we're winning or not, the Cowboys' popularity just keeps on truckin. Can other teams get away with that? Not on your life. They're jealous and fittingly so. If America's Team ever starts winning again, the public clamor will likely be unbearable for them and delightful for us, all at the same time. It's actually kinda funny -- for us, not so much for them. Ya gotta love it.

 

[erod]

I, for one, wish we could kill the moniker all together.

It became America's Team because the country was drawn to the sheer class and distinction that Tom Landry demanded of himself and his team. Add to that a Navy officer and war veteran who went on to a Hall of Fame career, and Dallas became the apple of the nation's eye. NFL Films picked up on it, and much to Landry's objection, titled a film by that name, and it stuck.

Today, this average franchise run by a joke of a GM doesn't measure up to that standard. However, now the Cowboys are hated every bit as much as they are loved. Just like the Yankees. The Cowboys and Yankees are synonymous in sports.

 

[Alexander]

I, for one, wish we could kill the moniker all together.

It became America's Team because the country was drawn to the sheer class and distinction that Tom Landry demanded of himself and his team. Add to that a Navy officer and war veteran who went on to a Hall of Fame career, and Dallas became the apple of the nation's eye. NFL Films picked up on it, and much to Landry's objection, titled a film by that name, and it stuck.

Today, this average franchise run by a joke of a GM doesn't measure up to that standard. However, now the Cowboys are hated every bit as much as they are loved. Just like the Yankees. The Cowboys and Yankees are synonymous in sports.

Good post.

It is hard to take pride in the moniker when it is basically out of context and misused ever since.

I do not even think the team itself has called themselves that since, at least in any "official" way.

All it is now is a punch line used as fodder and I wish it would just go away. I do not care if someone lays claim to it, in fact, they can have it and the baggage that goes along with it.

 

[Doomsday101]

Same old song every year with the america's team nickname, In the end if you tell others you are a football fan of America's Team they know your a Cowboys fan.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Good post.

It is hard to take pride in the moniker when it is basically out of context and misused ever since.

I do not even think the team itself has called themselves that since, at least in any "official" way.

All it is now is a punch line used as fodder and I wish it would just go away. I do not care if someone lays claim to it, in fact, they can have it and the baggage that goes along with it.

Yea that nickname means nothing to me. I think it's kind of silly actually. But it's historically Cowboy associated so there's that. I have read Tom hated it as did the players of that long ago era.

 

[Alexander]

Yea that nickname means nothing to me. I think it's kind of silly actually. But it's historically Cowboy associated so there's that. I have read Tom hated it as did the players of that long ago era.

I would love for another team to take the nickname and just choke on it.