Seriously. Why do people hate the Dallas Cowboys?

[Blue-Jay]

I loved them when Staubach and Tony Dorsett were on the team.

[chelsea0011]

1. "America's Team"????????? 'nuff said

[Blue-Jay]

4. So you resented their slogan?

[calico1]

5. Right. Same reason a lot of people

don't like the Atlanta Braves in baseball. People who live in other areas tend to resent the term "America's team" when used to describe what is just another competitor to them.

[Blue-Jay]

11. yeah, but the Braves' slogan never "stuck"

I don't hate the Braves because of their penchant for slogan-stealing. For a while, they had the most entertaining pitching lineup that had ever been assembled.

[denverbill]

27. Ditto.

I used to not like them because I was a Packer fan and they were a rival. But that was the late 60's/early 70's. However, I look back on them fondly because of Meredith, Staubach, Hayes, etc. I respected them then.

I lost respect when they started calling themselves "America's team". Nobody has a right to announce themselves that way. Same with the Braves. Heck neither Braves nor Cowboys has even existed all that long. If you want to pick an "America's team" it should be the Packers or Cubs or Yankees. Or if you wanna be democratic, put it to a vote. The team with the most fans gets to claim the title.

[Caution]

62. Braves have been around longer than the packers or the yankees

in fact they played in the very first NL game in 1876. The cubs were also a part of the original National League.

Interesting side note, the cubs were originaly the white sox and the braves were originally the red sox. the AL teams in boston and chicago both took the original name of the NL teams of those cities.

No team other than an olympic team should be called "America's Team"

[SaveElmer]

2. Three Reasons

1. They are in Texas

2. "America's team" bullsh*t

3. Drew Pearson

[VelmaD]

3. Because their team sucks...

and they're jealous of the Cowboys' history of success. :)

[underpants]

6. Jealousy

:evilgrin:

[terrya]

7. They always seemed so...Republican.

[baldguy]

8. 'cause they're the DALLAS COWBOYS.

[Kolesar]

9. Tom Landry

He just seemed so uptight to me. Then I found out that he was some kind of conservative Christian.

Besides, the Cleveland Browns are more popular than the Dallas Cowboys.

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. Which version?

The Ravens or the "New Browns?"

(sorry, as a southern Ohioan, I just gotta rub salt in the wounds ripped open by Art Modell)

[Blue-Jay]

15. Fuck Art Modell!

Fuck HIM!

(also a Browns fan)

[johnnie]

50. No

Fuck that asshole Mike White for driving Art out of the city.

[Blue-Jay]

14. Tom Landry was a class act.

They ceased being "my team" when Tom found out that he was fired by reading the morning news.

[LWolf]

41. That's when they lost me, too.

I despise Jerry Jones. And Jimmy Johnson. I haven't forgiven either one of them.

I'm not much of a sports fan; if it weren't for the Cowboys, I wouldn't have ever watched any kind of team sport. Growing up in So CA, I got to watch them scrimmage in Thousand Oaks during the summer. My first time out to see them, we were sitting on some benches at the 50 yard line watching them scrimmage; my mom's boyfriend took us. It was '70 or '71; I was 10 or 11. They were Superbowl champs, although I had no idea what that meant. They won my enthusiasm when the guy behind us started screaming at the top of his lungs:

GET 'EM CHARLIE! KNOCK HIS BALLS OFF! STOP HIM RIGHT THERE! KNOCK HIS BALLS OFF, CHARLIE! (To Charlie Waters). And more like that, except for more graphic.

My mother turned several shades of pink and red. If I'd been any younger, she would have covered my ears. I was enjoying her mortification so thoroughly that I became an instant, enthusiastic fan.

I became loyal that fall. We went to a huge football party the Sunday the Cowboys showed up to play the Rams; probably 25 couples crammed into the place. All those men, all pumped up for the Rams, thought it was just adorable that a little girl was rooting for the cowboys. They all bet me quarters. All four quarters, I was cheering and they were screaming and throwing things. I went home with about $12 worth of quarters; not bad for a kid in '71. That scenario was repeated for years, straight into adulthood.

These days, I don't even watch football anymore. But just a mention of the Redskins can still raise the hair on the back of my neck. :D

[redqueen]

44. Ain't that the truth?

What is it about the Redskins? I didn't even want to watch the game last night, but the Mr turned it on, and I'll be darned if I didn't get into it, just to root against 'em.

[LWolf]

72. <grin>

The only sports-related commercial I ever payed attention to, let alone liked was the one of Landry coming out of the saloon and knocking down the redskins as the door swung behind him....

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Same reason I hate the Yankees.

Other than the late '90s, the Yanks haven't been perrennial champions since the early '60s. Likewise, the Cowboys had a stretch in the mid '70s and another in the early '90s when they were tops.

Yet both the Yankees and the Cowboys (and many of their fans) have ALWAYS thought that the world revolved around their team. Lemme just say it straight out: I love the Reds. The Reds suck this year, as they have the past few years, and as they will again next year. Regardless of my fealty to the team, I can admit when they suck. I don't get a big old ego fart over it. I don't assume that I am "better" than anyone because I am a Reds fan.

Fuck the Cowboys. ;)

[Aristus]

12. I used to be a huge fan back when Roger Staubach was calling

the shots. I didn't know from liberal and conservative back then. I just loved Tony Dorsett and Too Tall Jones and the whole gang.

edit: spelling

[redqueen]

16. People hate the Cowboys?

:shrug:

I always seem to see fans in the stands and hear cheers for the touchdowns wherever they play... 'cept philly, but they suck.

[Blue-Jay]

17. Why does Texas Stadium have a hole in the roof?

So God can watch his favorite team play football.

[Aristus]

19. Question to drive fundy football fans crazy:

If God is omniscient, why does he need the hole?

Just asking. O8)

[ceile]

63. Born and raised an Oilers fan

It's as simple as that.

[Shakespeare]

71. Easy!

Aesthetics, man. :7

[frylock]

35. you post that, and wonder why people hate them?

the arrogance of their fans is a huge reason as well. For the record, my roommate is a cowgirl's fan, so I have first-hand knowledge of the aforementioned arrogance.

Jerry Jones, his facelift, and the way he did the great Tom Landry are really all the reasons you need to hate them.

[matcom]

18. BECAUSE I AM A REDSKIN FAN

its in our blood to hate those fuckers :grr:

[Blue-Jay]

20. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You never fail to make me laugh.

Admit it. You have a Riggins pig-nose in your house!

[matcom]

22. AND his dress!

:D

[redqueen]

21. hehehe

And vice versa... we're such silly monkeys. :)

[underpants]

23. Innovations originated by the Dallas Cowboys franchise

Extended uprights
The 40 yard dash for scouting purposes (replaced the irrelevant 100 yard dash)
Their whole scouting system which includes small colleges not just the football factories
First down markers on the ground-for when the sticks get moved the player still can see where the first down is.

[Aristus]

24. Remember when their offensive line would do that weird

kind of bob-and-shuffle right before the snap? It always struck me as being the equivalent of the baseball dugout kick-and-cross-legs team move.

[GOPisEvil]

29. Most of that was Tex Schramm.

He made NFL football a better game for TV.

[JVS]

25. Because they aren't the Steelers

[Blue-Jay]

26. Bradshaw had the best supporting cast EVER!

Best receivers (Stallworth & Swan) and best offensive line in the history of football. Without those guys, he wouldn't have even made the "A" Team.

Same goes for the 1985 Bears.

[underpants]

28. Bradsteen?

:bounce:

[phillybri]

30. The "America's Team" bullshit....

Fuck the Cowgirls!!!

:puke:

[Blue-Jay]

32. yeah?

You dislike the cheerleaders? Maybe another team doesn't have any.

[JVS]

34. Cheerleaders are for highschool games so that you can ogle them...

rather than pay attention to how much the playing sucks.

In college the playing is better and the cheerleaders have a diminished role.

In Pro-footbal there were no cheerleaders until the Cowboys perverted the fine game of football by bringing them in.

The better the football the less need for cheerleaders.

[phillybri]

38. The team is the Cowgirls!

I love the cheerleaders, but I hate the team!

[EstimatedProphet]

31. Because of the attitude of their publicity and some of their fans

They came off as very Republican IMO. It was like we were supposed to think it was a national tragedy if they lost.

[unfrigginreal]

33. Can you think of a better team to hate?

I can't.

[devilgrrl]

36. Because they're a bunch of classless assholes!

After Staubach left, they've never been the same.

[Blue-Jay]

43. Not being the "same"

somehow equals three championships since Saint Roger retired? 1993, 1994, 1996?

[devilgrrl]

61. They had class with Staubach and NONE since!

They're sore losers and even worse winners. The Dallas Cowboys - "Ugly America's Team"

[Commendatori]

37. I don't, I just hate the majority of their fans - bandwagon goobers who

claim to the last man that they were fans back when Jim O'Brien's kick took them out in SB V. Some of them are telling the truth, of course, but I always ask them a few questions that any REAL Cowboys fan would know the answer to. Very few pass, roughly a quarter.

[Surf Cowboy]

39. Too much inbreeding...

[redqueen]

40. All these Cowboy fan-hatin messages are hurting my feewins

:cry:

I've been watching them since as long as I can remember... since I was just a little girl.

You should all be ashamed!

























Besides... you're all just jealous cause your teams SUCK!

[matcom]

42. Death To Dallas!

remember when Danny White got knocked out at RFK stadium?

good times i tells ya :D

[redqueen]

45. Good times. :-)

So who do we hate more? The Redskins or the Eagles? The Mr and I couldn't settle this last night...

[matcom]

47. you better hate MY boys more

cuz i don't want no Dallas fan liking MY boyz!

when is our first matchup with you heathens this year?

on edit: WE GOT GIBBS BACK BABY!!

[redqueen]

52. I dunno

Gibbs was probably better at making sure guys can turn left really well, don't you think?

[matcom]

54. not even close

Gibbs is in the top 10 coaches of all time

[redqueen]

56. Hope that helps y'all out this year

:)

Maybe next year I won't have to wonder who to hate on more... lol.

[matcom]

57. i'm giving him a year before they are a winning team again

remember he brought back most of the old coaching staff too.

i might be wrong with the year thing though. they looked DAMNED fine last night (even with the rookies)

[redqueen]

59. They looked alright

Actually I thought both teams looked pretty bad, really. But then I'm used to the Cowboys, so... ;)

[Blue-Jay]

46. Oh man....

Danny White was the low point of the history of that team.

A punter AND a quarterback? Heeeey! Great idea! (He sucked at both positions)

[matcom]

49. he STILL sees Dexter in his dreams!

:D

[Blue-Jay]

51. Dammit. Wrong football thread.

deleted

[matcom]

53. it was twice as hard cuz Dexter was probably hopped up on coke at the time

:D

[Blue-Jay]

55. Manley was a monster.

For a little while....

The Skins have a penchant for hiring washed up old dudes. They haven't drafted anyone good since the early 80s.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

48. I never liked their goody-two-shoes hypocrisy

Their star-spangled, straight-laced phoniness is almost as bad as that of the Dodgers. The Dodgers are the only other professional sports team I detest profoundly. Every time I hear "how 'bout them cowboys?" I almost want to retch as much as I do when I hear someone talking about "bleeding Dodger blue".

[Blue-Jay]

58. You hated them because they beat your team.

Tell the truth.

[doc03]

60. I hate everything "Texas"

[ceile]

65. Hey-no Texas bashing!

Ever been to Austin? Our wonderful liberal oasis...

[doc03]

74. Seriously, How did Ann Richards get elected there?

Was there a Republican scandal that got her elected or what? Then they replaced her with Bush*, how did that happen?

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

64. Because they suck

said by a woman born and raised in Dallas.

But I have personal reasons for hating them.

[TEXASYANKEE]

66. America's Team ????

I have always heard that it was the media, not the Cowboys, who coined that phrase. Why it stuck, I don't know. 'Course I don't mind, being a Cowboys fan and all. :-)

[PVnRT]

67. Because I can

and it makes it all the more sweeter when I remind them about the Ice Bowl in 1967.

[redqueen]

69. That took long enough

I was wondering when that would come up.

[argyl]

68. Success.About half of NFC championship games until the mid 90's

featured the Cowboys.In the 90's they settled scores with the 49ers and Steelers on the field.
They've won and lost championships since the mid 60s;decades of success.
And you Cowboys haters know they'll be back,don't you?

[bo44]

70. Greedy Old Prikkks Team not America's Team

My hatred for the Cowboys was soothed the day Joe Cool lofted a floater to Dwight Clark in the end zone that proved to be the play that catapulted the Niners to their Dynasty while the Cowboys hopes to continue theirs sunk like a turd in a ten gallon hat.

[Scottie72]

73. Because of their arrogance...

Simple enough.. America's Team.