I must say...

[Thornir Alekeg]

I want to see the Pats win again, but I'll be more than willing to let the Cowboys keep the phrase "America's Team" because I really hate that phrase. I hate it for the Cowboys, I hate it just as much for the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.

The Patriots are not America's Team...where was America when they sucked? Nope, this team belongs to New England.

And as for exciting players, I disagree. They have plenty of exciting players, but so many of them that no one stands out as THE player, and none of them have an ego so freakin' huge that they would say things like "Gimmie the Damn Ball!" They are a TEAM, and that is more exciting than any one individual player (but it does kind of suck for fantasy football purposes).

 

[derelictjay]

Dude, Dallas will always be Americas team. Dallas fans, like me, will always be bashed and ridiculed when Dallas is losing, and will be reviled and hated when Dallas is winning. The Pats are a great team and I hope they win the Super Bowl if Dallas ain't in it (slim chance there, hey I don't have to be opptimistic), they're better than most of the alternatives (I will never root for Philedelphia as long as Dallas and Philly are in the same division), but when there team is in the dumps, no one really cares. So that's why Dallas is America's team (by the way, the Yankee's get the same treatment).

 

[Crothian]

Dallas being America's team is over. It was nice while it lastest, but the torch is going to be handed over to someone else. It might be the Pats if they keep doing well. All America's Team means is the team that is doing the best for the past couple of years so most of the non fans of America have jumped on the Band Wagon.

 

[Mystery Man]

If McNabb doesn't choke like he did last year, the Eagles will go all the way. I cringe as I type this as I am a 49er fan of many years.

 

[drothgery]

The Cowboys as "America's Team" was largely a myth, I think. They don't have more of a national following than any other team, as far as I can tell; the Packers seem to have far more fans outside of Wisconsin than the Cowboys have outside of Texas.

 

[Paladin]

The Cowboys as "America's Team" was largely a myth, I think. They don't have more of a national following than any other team, as far as I can tell; the Packers seem to have far more fans outside of Wisconsin than the Cowboys have outside of Texas.

Actually, more people have listened to Cowboy's games than any other team's, thanks to the genius of Tex Schramm. He created the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network, the largest radio network of any sports team. In 1979, for instance, their games were broadcast on 225 stations in 19 states. Their Spanish-speaking network included 16 stations in seven states and Mexico. People who weren't anywhere near a pro team suddenly had one to cheer for and they still do. They sell the most merchandise, next to the Raiders (who sell more for an entirely different than football reason).

By the way, "America's Team" is the term that NFL Films used for the title of the Cowboys 1968 highlight film. Tex Schramm used that and ran with it, and of course it is still in use today. The 'Boys are still unmatched in all of pro sports with 20 consecutive winning seasons, plus their 8 Super Bowl appearances have never been equaled.

Can you tell I'm a fan? ;-) I'm not a band-wagoner though, I was born in Dallas and have been here since (minus my military time). My earliest sports memory is Monday Night Football, and Tony Dorsett running (from about 6 yards deep in his own end zone) going 99 yards (really 99 1/2) for the longest rush ever. I suffered through 1-15 in '89 too, not to mention the three 5-11 campaigns before Coach Parcells took over.

 

[drothgery]

Can you tell I'm a fan? ;-) I'm not a band-wagoner though, I was born in Dallas and have been here since (minus my military time). My earliest sports memory is Monday Night Football, and Tony Dorsett running (from about 6 yards deep in his own end zone) going 99 yards (really 99 1/2) for the longest rush ever. I suffered through 1-15 in '89 too, not to mention the three 5-11 campaigns before Coach Parcells took over.

Myself, I started following the Packers just before the Favre era; I was born in Ohio, and a Browns fan when my family moved to Wisconsin. Three years later, the Browns were in Baltimore and my family was in Syracuse, and about all I kept with me from Wisconsin was Packer fandom (it helped that the closest NFL teams in Syracuse were the Bills, Pats, Giants, and Jets, all hunderds of miles away).

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

I suffered through 1-15 in '89 too,

Yeah, but that 1 win was against the Washington Redskins--how embarassing for them!

 

[diaglo]

Yeah, but that 1 win was against the Washington Redskins--how embarassing for them!

don't remind me.

there are only 2 games any real Redskin fan wants to win all year.

and they are both against Dallas.

 

[Mystery Man]

The cowbows and the 'Skins are like arch, arch, ARCH rivals are they not?