# NFL teams that get too much coverage? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 3, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447 "2011-10-03T16:38:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/21 "2011-10-03T23:59:07Z")
While we’re on the Cowboy flame wagon, fuck Troy Aikman. You don’t like the Packers, we get it asshole, could you pretend to be impartial as you narrate the game though. Every time the Packers are ahead they’re ‘offense is struggling and their defense doesn’t recover the ball enough’, whenever we’re behind it’s ‘this team just hasn’t been able to pull it together this year.’ It wouldn’t be so bad except he seems to announce every single Packer game. Along with the rest of the world I got tired of the Favre show, he got more press than many teams combined, but he’s gone now and not missed. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/22 "2011-10-04T00:11:14Z")
> [@mkecane](#): > > **astorian** , I agree with your post except the Lakers are the love 'em/hate 'em team in the NBA. Nobody cared or thought about the Celtics from the time Reggie Lewis died until 2007 when Garnett arrived, and the Lakers won 3 titles, and lost a couple, in that time. Take Sports Guy away from Boston, and I think they’d have far less coverage and thought in people’s minds today. I don’t know off the top of my head, but I’d guess that from '92-'96 was the only time where the Lakers didn’t have a top-5 player in the league since seemingly the beginning of time. Kobe now, Shaq, Magic, Kareem, Jerry West, Wilt, Baylor…we’re back to the 60s since they had a superstar, and I’m probably missing someone. Miami Heat have taken over the hate team. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/23 "2011-10-04T00:17:22Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > While we’re on the Cowboy flame wagon, fuck Troy Aikman. You don’t like the Packers, we get it asshole, could you pretend to be impartial as you narrate the game though. Every time the Packers are ahead they’re ‘offense is struggling and their defense doesn’t recover the ball enough’, whenever we’re behind it’s ‘this team just hasn’t been able to pull it together this year.’ It wouldn’t be so bad except he seems to announce every single Packer game. Many Cowboys fans complain about his announcing Cowboys games, saying he’s unduly harsh on the Cowboys and going way overboard in an effort to appear unbiased. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/24 "2011-10-04T00:36:28Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Others would be the Eagles, Jets and Pitt. Over the last decade, the Eagles and Steelers have been consistent contenders. The Jets play in New York, and have been a contender the last two years. Before Rex Ryan, the Giants got way, way more coverage than the Jets. > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > The Cowboys are the number one manifestation of this. I will never, ever understand why. It can’t be only because of the “America’s Team” thing, though. That was an NFL promo thing that few people have ever actually seen. So why are the Cowboys so popular? The TV show _Dallas_, maybe? It’s not like there was a mass exodus from Dallas or anything (see below). > > I do understand Pittsburgh’s widespread fanbase, though. After the steel industry collapsed the population of Pittsburgh was reduced by slightly more than half, and the diaspora took the Steelers with them.. I don’t think any “Pittsburgh diaspora” has much to do with it; a few hundred thousand scattered ex-Pittsburghers in a country of 300 million doesn’t amount to a lot . Both teams are popular because in the 1970s-80s, when football surged in popularity, those were the two marquee teams, in the playoffs every year, and constantly on Monday Night Football. They’ve simply managed to hold onto their market share. I know several people who are fans of those teams and have no connection whatsoever to the cities. (Rush Limbaugh is devout Steelers fan – he’s from Missouri) The Raiders are a third team like that; they’ve sucked so hard in the last 2 decades it’s waned, but they still have a lot of fans that couldn’t find Oakland on a map. And “America’s Team,” like it or not, is grounded in reality: The Landry-Staubach Cowboys were wildly popular. They got great TV ratings, they sold a ton of merchandise. Again, it’s waned, but they still do. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/25 "2011-10-04T01:15:21Z")
> [@furt](#): > > I don’t think any “Pittsburgh diaspora” has much to do with it; a few hundred thousand scattered ex-Pittsburghers in a country of 300 million doesn’t amount to a lot . Both teams are popular because in the 1970s-80s, when football surged in popularity, those were the two marquee teams, in the playoffs every year, and constantly on Monday Night Football. They’ve simply managed to hold onto their market share. There’s some of that, for every team. But keep in mind that the exodus began around 30 years ago and so we’re into the third generation of Steelers fans, which is a lot more than a few hundred thousand. Teams that moved or were replaced by a new team have the same sort of fanbase. Believe it or not, there are some people in Maryland that still like the Colts. Also, there were fewer teams in the 1960s-70s which would put the old guard teams at a decided fanbase advantage when compared to the expansion teams. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/26 "2011-10-04T01:45:48Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > Many Cowboys fans complain about his announcing Cowboys games, saying he’s unduly harsh on the Cowboys and going way overboard in an effort to appear unbiased. I suppose, in a sort of ‘when I was QB we wouldn’t have done that’, kinda way. You don’t have to convince _me_ the guys unprofessional. ---
**Author:** ![JessMagic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@JessMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessMagic)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/27 "2011-10-04T05:50:28Z")
I was just thinking last night that I’ve seen way too much of the Rams in the last few years, watching on Sky Sports (UK) then All Sports Network (Singapore). I swear I’ve seen them about a dozen times, way out of proportion considering how they’ve been hogging so much of the suck. I don’t mind seeing the suck teams once in a while - I wish I could see the Bills more often - but it seems to me that the Rams get far too much of my screen time. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/28 "2011-10-04T07:01:20Z")
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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/29 "2011-10-04T11:14:07Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > Miami Heat have taken over the hate team. For NOW they have- but in ten years, when LeBron is retired and the Heat are just another mediocre NBA team, nobody will still hate the Heat. But people will still hate the Celtics. Because NBA fans always have and always will. In the same way, lots of people resented and hated Michigan’s “Fab Five” for their overexposure… but today, almost nobody hates the Michigan basketball program. People will ALWAYS hate Duke. Some teams get overexposed for a little while. Only a handful get overexposed year in and year out. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/30 "2011-10-11T00:40:47Z")
Watched a lot of NFL network the last week and can’t believe their hard-on for the NFC East, especially the Eagles. The first three stories of any broadcast will be about the Patriots, Eagles and Jets with a splash of the Steelers thrown in. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447/31 "2011-10-11T02:34:04Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > Many Cowboys fans complain about his announcing Cowboys games, saying he’s unduly harsh on the Cowboys and going way overboard in an effort to appear unbiased. That’s probably the concussions talking… But yeah, the coverage of the Cowboys is totally obnoxious, and I’m talking about the Dallas papers. ANY Cowboys story seems to trump any other story about any other sports team in the city or state. It seemed like dumb-ass stuff like Tony Romo leading the team in workouts during the lockout got equal press with the Mavs winning the damn championship. Hell, in today’s paper the Cowboys got equal press with the Rangers, who are in the ALCS, and the Cowboys can’t play their way out of a paper bag. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-teams-that-get-too-much-coverage/598447.md?page=1)