Dallas Cowboys Football
The Dallas Cowboys often refer to themselves as America's Team, and most of America has a special place for them, although for Americans outside of Dallas this special place is unmentionable in a respectable publication.
Just The Facts
- The Dallas Cowboys did not give themselves the nickname "America's Team" but were given that label by a reporter.
- However, it is the Cowboys' organization that is responsible for not letting people forget a reporter once called them that.
- Most other American football fans have come up with their own creative nicknames for the Cowboys.
Dallas Cowboys History
The Dallas Cowboys franchise was created January 28, 1960. Football fans began hating the Cowboys on January 29, 1960.
The original proposed name for the team was the Dallas Steers. Steers are castrated cattle. With great foresight, the team founders anticipated many decades of animosity from other football fans and wisely decided not to give them any more ammunition than they needed.
The new expansion team failed to win a game in its first season, improved in their second season, and regressed again in their third. As they began a dismal fourth season, the President of the United States was shot in their city, which many consider to be a coincidence.
From this auspicious beginning, the Cowboys gradually improved and became a football powerhouse, and currently boast the most Super Bowl appearances of all NFL teams. As they became more successful, their fans became more vocal, and according to most NFL fans, more obnoxious.
Obnoxiousness is a value passed down from the top, as owner Jerry Jones is well known for being boastful and somewhat undiplomatic. In a 2003 Sports Illustrated online poll, he was voted Most Hated Sports Personality in at least 3 states.
He is known for hiring players that are equally obnoxious, troublemakers such as Terrell Owens, Adam "Pacman" Jones, Deion Sanders, and Michael Irvin, among others. In any given era of the team, there is probably at least one Cowboys player that serves as a default punchline to sports diva jokes, even for Americans who don't know anything about football.
The Cowboys Today
The Dallas Cowboys' current quarterback, Tony Romo, got his position when his predecessor, Drew Bledsoe, was fired halfway through a game. Television cameras lingered lovingly on Bledsoe's shellshocked face during the rest of the game. Romo has been accused of choking in games due to being distracted by his involvement with Jessica Simpson, and his last name is perfect for childish nicknames. He thus proudly carries on the tradition of giving NFL fans a face of the franchise they can model a pinata after.
Meanwhile, the other big to-do recently has been the Cowboys' new stadium (cleverly named Cowboys Stadium), an ambitious and extremely expensive stadium that cost so much that Jerry Jones would probably rent it out to anybody to make his cost back, including weddings and bar mitzvahs. Cowboys fans jokingly nicknamed the stadium "The Death Star" while it was under construction, although in reality only one person was killed in the process. (170 were injured.)
The most popular highlight of the new stadium is its enormous scoreboard hanging in the middle of the stadium, which is so low it sometimes get hit by punts. This has provided much mirth to football fans.
I heard an interview with Micheal Irving On the Jim Rome show. He said he really didn't mind the fans cheering his injury because Cowboys had been killing the Eagles for years. He laughed about it.
ReplyGo Cowboys.
ReplyHow could you Drew! How could you? We Pats fans loved you! But not being top dog made you power mad! We some competition beat you, you went to the dark side! *sobs*
ReplySteers and queers, godallas. f**k the cowboys, the Yankees are alright. I was one of those guys cheering when Micheal Irving got hurt. Philly is full of unreasoning hatred, and we like it just fine that way. It's why we had no problem signing Vick.
ReplyAlso, Ed Rendell, former mayor of Philly now DNC chairman, was once seen betting a man 50 bucks that he couldn't hit the ref with a snowball. While acting mayor.
Finding this out, I'm disappointed that I can't vote for Ed Rendell for governor again.
It's too bad they let the uninformed have such a soapbox to spread their stupidity. The Dallas Cowboys, like it or not are one of the most successful sports franchises in the world, with probably one of the biggest fan bases. There's not too many people that wouldn't love to have a piece of the Dallas Cowboys. Punt's do not hit the scoreboard, in fact not once in a regular season game has it happened, not once. Haters will be haters. They always have been and always will be America's Team.
ReplyWho gives a s**t what they won in the past? Ah right only the fans. I don't know any damn cowboys fans outside of texas, so hardly "the largest fan base", and there are a few soccer teams who would like to s**t on your assertion that they are among the most successful sports franchises in the world. All I know is that in the past 10 years, the cowboys have gotten a big, fat ZERO (0, in parentheses because I know those of you in texas have a hard time reading)Superbowl rings. None. Zipp. Nada. Nothing. And that, my friend, is all that counts, not what you did 20 years ago, but what you are doing now. Besides, Superbowl appearances are never the same as Superbowl wins.
Wow, you missed an EASY joke...
ReplyThe Dallas Cowboys franchise was created January 28, 1960. Football fans began hating the Cowboys on January 29, 1960.
Fixing it for you...
The Dallas Cowboys franchise was created January 28, 1960. Football fans began hating the Cowboys on January 27, 1960.
:)
Horrible jokes are easy I guess
This chart also applies to the New York Yankees.
ReplyThere are almost as many reasons to hate the Cowflops as there are for lobotomizing their fans. You would think that the fact that Pittsburgh started blinging out the other hand would have lowered the obnoxious quotient considerably among the fans and the team, but alas....once a douche bag always a douche bag. But I have to say that this article is unfair to Romo....he is the greatest player ever, he helps the Cowchips fail in spectacular fashion year after year!
ReplyIn closing...Why does Cowpoker's Stadium have a hole in the roof?
So God can watch the CowAbscesses suck!
Haters gonna hate but 5 rings will slap those mouths shut
ReplyYeah you guys did alright in the early seventies and early nineties. What happened?
Tony Homo. TeeHee.
ReplyAny good Steelers fan hates them as well. They took us out in a superbowl game years ago.
Replydidnt know the Dallas cowboys were that hated, they are widely loved here in Mexico porbably the most popular american football team here next to the Pitsburg steelers
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesYet another reason to hate Mexico.
thats why they get a lot of hate as well. a lot of people like the yankees cause of their success and tradition, but other than that people hate them. same with the steelers/cowboys
the f**k you are talking about? almost nobody watches american football here in mexico
most people simply don't give a damn about dallas cowboys
I don't hear too much of this hate for Dallas Cowboys, not more than I would hear about pretty much any other team in the league by every person who wasn't a fan of that team. Also, i think people might have mistaken the owner of Dallas Cowboys for the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban. Even people who live in Dallas despise Mark Cuban (and they should since he's a first-class douchebag). My laptop might burst into flames in hatred of me typing "Mark Cuban" so many times.
ReplyWhile Cuban is, indeed, a world class douche of a sports team owner, they're talking about the right one. Even as a lifelong Cowboys fan, there are times when I'd love it if Jones would just shut the hell up.
Fire Jerry Jones!
Am I the only one surprised that the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders were not mentioned at all? There's a real testament to the hatred of the team, that it cancels out their most formidable redeeming quality.
ReplyThere are other teams with much hotter cheerleaders. They're not as iconic but still, the cowboy cheerleaders don't stack up anymore.
Bwahahahahaha!!!
You said "stacked".
See, I always thought that the Patriots were the "Yankees" of football, what with their messiah Tom Brady and all.
ReplyYeah, I think the Patriots are hated pretty thoroughly as well.
I have to agree. The Cowboys seem much like the Yankees of the NFL: They think that they're an American institution, but are really just smug, obnoxious, and universally hated by the rest of the country, no matter how well they might play. I think Gunnery Sergeant Hartman said it best: "There's two things I know that come from Texas, steers and queers, and I don't see any horns."
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesTexas??? Holy s**t only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowbow, and you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?? "Sir no sir!" Are you a peter puffer?? "sir no sir" I bet you're the kind of guy that would f**k a person in the ass and not even have the God-damned common courtesy to give a reach around. I'll be watching you.
If you're talking about fans, then that is fair to say. Being a Yankees fan myself, I can admit there are a lot of obnoxious Yankee fans out there. However, as an organization, they are disliked because they spend a lot of money and are consistently good. There is no T.O. of the Yankees. Its a pretty classy organization, with some less-than-classy fans.
R. Lee would be the best grandpa EVER.
there are many more fans much more obnoxious then any dallas fan. here, off the top of my head are three of them( 1 being so sickening and obnoxious that it makes puppies jump off cliffs and 3 being meh/respect out of terror)
Reply!. Green bay "fudge" packer fans
2. Yankee's fans
3. red sox fans
4. Oakland raider fans
While Boston fans in general are awful, and Yankee fans are almost always assholes (I say this even though I'm a Yankee fan), Cowboy fans are the f*****g worst because they act like it's your patriotic duty to love their team, and that if you don't love the Cowboys, you're un-American.
Hate, I can deal with, but call me a traitor, and we have a f*****g problem.