[Battle for NFC Home-Field] America's Team v. Green Bay

KePoW · Dec 5, 2007

Desert Scar said:

Ughh. No, and no. Probably 80% or more of Cowboys fans are NOT Mavs fans. Cowboys fans are throughout the nation and many in Houston, Mavs fans are pretty much confided to living within or near that freeway loop up there
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this is pretty much 100% accurate

the Cowboys are America's Team... the Mavs are nowhere close

VooDooPope · Dec 5, 2007

I'm a Cowboys fan and I HATE the Mavs.

I do hate the obnoxious Cowboys fans that give us all a bad name. And I wish I'd never hear anyone call them America's Team again.

KePoW · Dec 5, 2007

VooDooPope said:

I'm a Cowboys fan and I HATE the Mavs.

I do hate the obnoxious Cowboys fans that give us all a bad name. And I wish I'd never hear anyone call them America's Team again.
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but we are!

Rocketman95 · Dec 5, 2007

KePoW said:

but we are!
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Yeah, Cowboy fans aren't annoying or anything.

Angle02 · Dec 5, 2007

VooDooPope said:

I'm a Cowboys fan and I HATE the Mavs.

I do hate the obnoxious Cowboys fans that give us all a bad name. And I wish I'd never hear anyone call them America's Team again.
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You saying that means you aren't a true Cowboys fan. Bandwagon fan.

Nero · Dec 5, 2007

plutoblue11 said:

I'm not a fan of Cowboys or the Patriots. ALthough, the Pats are a better team, the Cowboys have much easier road to the Super Bowl than Patties. Like you said, that North Atlantic weather is not a pass friendly environment, while the Dallas will be playing in a cushy dome in Texas.
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Stopped reading right there, due to the poster being completely ignorant.

VooDooPope · Dec 5, 2007

Angle02 said:

You saying that means you aren't a true Cowboys fan. Bandwagon fan.
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Sorry. I've been a fan for much longer than you've been alive. My dad had season tickets from 76-79 and I went with him every weekend.

I had my own season tickets in 93-94 and got to go to the Superbowl in Atlanta when Dallas beat Buffalo in Jimmie Johnson's last game as Coach.

Try again.

VooDooPope · Dec 5, 2007

double posts suck

dylan · Dec 5, 2007

ryan17wagner said:

I can't wait til the Texans lock up their sixth consecutive season. It should be on 12/13. I have my tickets!
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I know, the cool thing is they'll have their sixth consecutive season in only six seasons!

Manny Ramirez · Dec 5, 2007

Angle02 said:

You saying that means you aren't a true Cowboys fan. Bandwagon fan.
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Nope, he says that because he sees how obnoxious, arrogant, and smug it is to declare a team, "America's team". Too bad that there aren't more Cowboys fans like VP or they would actually be okay to be around.

redefined · Dec 5, 2007

The Cowboys are America's Team because "America doesn't like losers," said Duke University cultural anthropology professor Orin Starn, a 49ers fan as a youth. "We never were going to root for, say, the Houston Oilers.

"The NFL is different from baseball in that way. It's about winning and smashing your opponent, so there's never been the equivalent of the Cubs or Boston Red Sox, beloved losers for so long."

Starn sees the Texas connection, too, in that "Americans always have wanted to be Texans. We have an idea that Texas is the purest form of being American, the myth of the tough cowboy and the possibility of getting rich quick. Money, big slabs of meat, sexy cheerleaders.

"NFL publicity chief Greg Aiello, who previously worked in that capacity for the Cowboys, cited a 1978 Newsday Super Bowl advance as the first piece chronicling "Cowboys Have Become a National Team." It reported the team's massive out-of-town and out-of-state following, the league's first Spanish-language network, a pervasive TV presence that included former Cowboys quarterback Don Meredith's homey work on Monday Night Football, a decade of consistently leading the NFL in souvenir sales, a celebrity connection fostered by years of staging summer training camps just outside of Los Angeles. Not to mention the cheerleaders.

The actual phrase "America's Team" appeared a year later on the Cowboys' 1979 highlight reel after NFL Films executive Bob Ryan and Doug Todd, then the Cowboys' publicist, were casting around for a title and discarded "U.S. Cowboys" and "Champions Die Hard" and "Cowboys a National Team."

"It is interesting," Starn noted, "that the Cowboys grew into 'America's Team' at the time the soap opera was becoming a big national thing" - a reference to the hit TV series "Dallas," which debuted in 1978.

Predictably, there was a backlash (still out there) to the perceived arrogance of the "America's Team" claim. But a 1997 book, "I Hate the Dallas Cowboys, And Who Elected Them America's Team, Anyway?" is an anthology of talk radio-like ranting that mostly hints at Cowboys envy, as is "The Dallas Cryboys" anti-fan Web site.
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http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/ny-sphot115456315nov11,0,3697665.story

Desert Scar · Dec 5, 2007

Nero said:

Quote: Originally Posted by plutoblue11
I'm not a fan of Cowboys or the Patriots. ALthough, the Pats are a better team, the Cowboys have much easier road to the Super Bowl than Patties. Like you said, that North Atlantic weather is not a pass friendly environment, while the Dallas will be playing in a cushy dome in Texas.

Stopped reading right there, due to the poster being completely ignorant.
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No kidding. Real football fans know Texas stadium wasn't domed off so that God could have a clearer view of his team.

Rocketman95 · Dec 5, 2007

Desert Scar said:

No kidding. Real football fans know Texas stadium wasn't domed off so that God could have a clearer view of his team.
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Are you saying God doesn't have X-ray vision?

TMac#1 · Dec 5, 2007

I'll say this, I think the Patriots are gonna get to the Superbowl and probably be undefeated, but the biggest threat to a Dallas / New England superbowl is the San Diego Chargers. That team is dangerous as hell, they are nearly as talented as the Cowboys or Patriots, and if they ever could play like they are capable of, they can cause severe problems for anybody.

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