# Why hate the Dallas Cowboys so much? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 22, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622 "2007-10-22T21:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/101 "2015-04-13T22:38:54Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > The Cowboys didn’t create the “America’s Team” moniker. No, but they don’t exactly shy away from using it in reference to themselves, either (as has been noted by others here). ---
**Author:** ![Texascowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Texascowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Texascowboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/102 "2015-04-13T22:53:41Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Ladies and Gentlemen (and Zombies), may I present … A Cowboys fan. You got me chief die hard to the corp as they come > [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Moving this over to The Game Room where we can all enjoy bagging on the Cowboys. 😉 heard it all before so bring it on > [@TroutMan](#): > > Is it too meta to say I hate them because of their fans? The real reason is why the fan hate? and for that the answer is…because Dallas fans can say things others can’t - winning record vs the entire NFL - 20 consecutive winning seasons - 34 playoff wins - division titles - 5 Lombardi titles \*10 conference titles we back up our claims of greatness with things that are factual and real, the rest talk and whine putting themselves ahead when they don’t belong in the same league as us ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/103 "2015-04-13T22:55:56Z")
I too know this is a zombie thread, but since I hate the Cowboys and was perusing the thread, I had to ask… (Lifelong Steelers fan here, BTW) > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because Jerry Jones paid off the Steelers’ scumbag quarterback to throw Super Bowl XXX. I know you are a Steeler fan, so I hope this was a joke. I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say you were kidding. But to set the record (sort of) straight. Neil O’Donnell was a lot of things, but he wasn’t a scumbag. He threw two of the worst-looking interceptions not just in the Super Bowl but in any football game. But he was basically an average QB who had an offense built around him, and when he went to the Jets, he showed how average he truly was. Not a bad guy, and the first int. was supposedly the receiver’s fault. > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because the Steelers were originally offered the appellation “America’s Team” and the Rooneys turned it down because they have humility, something sorely lacking anywhere in Texas. However, this one? I have to ask for a cite. I have never heard another story other than the one that was mentioned upthread. NFL Films did team highlight films for every NFL Team, and some guy who worked for NFL Films tagged the Cowboys (and their highlight film) America’s Team for one of their seasons in the 1970’s. It obviously wasn’t either year the Cowboys lost to the Steelers in the Super Bowl, but I don’t recall what year the name was coined. I agree with most of Airman Doors other reasons, though. 😃 Personally, like all people who grew up as Steeler fans in the 1970’s, the Cowboys were easy to hate. The Raiders, though, were the Ravens to me. They were pure evil. I had a lot of respect for Landry, and what Jerry Jones did to him was just classless. Jones is an attention-whore, with the same “look at me” personality as Donald Trump. He enjoyed firing Landry because he enjoyed the attention. That turned me off of the Cowboys forever, but some of the players of those 90’s teams, especially Michael (snort) Irvin and Emmitt (score a TD, take off my helmet) Smith, and two coaches in particular (Barry Switzer, who is the Joe Biden of NFL coaches and the completely overrated Bill Parcells), didn’t help, either. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/104 "2015-04-13T23:13:15Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > I had a lot of respect for Landry, and what Jerry Jones did to him was just classless. Landry had just coached the Cowboys to a 3-13 record the previous season. The game had clearly passed him by. What was Jerry supposed to do - let Landry keep coaching another decade? ---
**Author:** ![Texascowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Texascowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Texascowboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/105 "2015-04-13T23:19:19Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Dallas Cowboys because of their historical rivalry with the Steelers. There is no rivalry with the Steelers > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because their owner is an unmitigated douchebag who unceremoniously fired the only coach in the history of the team immediately upon purchase. both had ego’s and the decision was mutual between Jones and Johnson that he was to step down > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because they employed Nate Newton, Leon Lett, Michael Irvin, Mark Stepnoski, and Troy Aikman. hates em cause they are winners - check > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because the hole in the roof of Texas Stadium is not there so that God can watch his team, it’s there because the architect jacked up the design and didn’t finish their POS stadium. Just a part of the bible belt something you clearly don’t understand > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because Jerry Jones paid off the Steelers’ scumbag quarterback to throw Super Bowl XXX. Nobody payed him off just sour grapes we took one back from the 70’s > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because the Steelers were originally offered the appellation “America’s Team” and the Rooneys turned it down because they have humility, something sorely lacking anywhere in Texas. this is actually just a rumor, there is no evidence that points that NFL films approached them with that title > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are nothing but white trash exhibitionists, and the Steelers again outclass the 'Girls because they don’t need cheerleaders. got it Steelers cheerleaders actual NY hookers, Cowboys cheerleaders (hot) > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because of that stupid line reset they used to do. Kept you guessing didn’t it?? > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because they had coaches named Johnson, Switzer, and Parcells, douchebags all. all winners by the way > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because they showed their lack of institutional integrity when they signed T.O. without a second thought after he publicly showed them up by celebrating on the star (which I loved by the way). Integrity? Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, Ray Lewis and Carruth talk about grasping at straws and attaining nothing > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because the only player with any sort of integrity that they had in the last 20 years ended his career in Arizona. $$$$$$ Emmitt was about the dollars at the end not the team > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I hate the Cowboys because they don’t even play in Dallas. don’t have to play in Dallas, both NY teams play in NJ, the Redskins play outside DC, > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > Mostly, though, I hate the Cowboys because Robin likes them, and so my ire is refueled every weekend when she puts on her damn blue rag. Dates a Cowboys fan now we are getting to the real issue here > [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > Nothing, not even the total collapse of the Ravens, would make me happier than if Dallas lost every single game. I take that back-the only thing better would be if they both went winless. and we end with sour grapes Dallas is still better despite Pittsburghs 6 Thank you all for playing see ya’ll next time ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/106 "2015-04-13T23:21:06Z")
Speaking as a Packer fan… One big thing that factors into my personal dislike\* for the Cowboys is the outsized amount of attention that they have received from the sports media, for as long as I’ve been a football fan (i.e., about 40 years). When they’re good, it seems like NFL coverage is massively obsessed with them – in the 1990s, when they were winning Super Bowls, it felt like they were the “Game of the Week” **every single week**. Even when they aren’t very good, it feels like the media spend an inordinate amount of time on the soap opera that comes out of Dallas. How much of this is driven by the team themselves (particularly Jerry Jones), versus the media feeling that anything Cowboys will draw eyeballs, I don’t know. (Now, I note all of this, fully acknowledging that “Favre Watch” was an obsession with the media for several years, though at least that moved on from GB when he did.) - - I say “dislike” because I reserve “hate” for things far more horrid than sports. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/107 "2015-04-13T23:23:55Z")
So what is worse a Dallas Fan or an dopey internet Troll? I think the answer is “When they are the same person.” ---
**Author:** ![Texascowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Texascowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Texascowboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/108 "2015-04-13T23:26:22Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Speaking as a Packer fan… > > One big thing that factors into my personal dislike\* for the Cowboys is the outsized amount of attention that they have received from the sports media, for as long as I’ve been a football fan (i.e., about 40 years). > > When they’re good, it seems like NFL coverage is massively obsessed with them – in the 1990s, when they were winning Super Bowls, it felt like they were the “Game of the Week” **every single week**. Even when they aren’t very good, it feels like the media spend an inordinate amount of time on the soap opera that comes out of Dallas. > > How much of this is driven by the team themselves (particularly Jerry Jones), versus the media feeling that anything Cowboys will draw eyeballs, I don’t know. > > (Now, I note all of this, fully acknowledging that “Favre Watch” was an obsession with the media for several years, though at least that moved on from GB when he did.) What did you expect?? many of those who are now media idiots grew up where it was customary to watch the Cowboys on Sunday and many began liking them, either out of their own choice or? their families like of them, so of course many of them are going to pick Dallas to win So the real question is why do you care who they pick/like/hype? I mean it’s not like they really care what you think, or even tend to disagree with them on when it comes to Dallas they see what they want, the same way you see and hear what you want it comes to them…neither side is persuaded to budge on how they see You’d have better luck pushing a penny using telepathy then you would changing their minds regarding the Cowboys > [@What\_Exit](#): > > So what is worse a Dallas Fan or an dopey internet Troll? I think the answer is “When they are the same person.” to easy, our answer is? when a poster can’t do anything but complain cause they can’t refute what is being said ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/109 "2015-04-13T23:29:11Z")
> [@Texascowboy](#): > > You got me chief die hard to the corp as they come > > heard it all before so bring it on > > The real reason is why the fan hate? and for that the answer is…because > Dallas fans can say things others can’t > > - winning record vs the entire NFL > > - 20 consecutive winning seasons > > - 34 playoff wins > > - division titles > > - 5 Lombardi titles > > \*10 conference titles > > we back up our claims of greatness with things that are > factual and real, the rest talk and whine putting themselves > ahead when they don’t belong in the same league as us All true but what have the 'pies done since they won the Super Bowl after the 1995 season? Answer: not a whole lot except make Tony Romo out to be a GOD and - get ready for this - pretty much SUCK. But then people like YOU come around to remind us all of the ‘pies’ “glory days” which all happened over two decades ago, now. Thank you for living up to the Wal-Mart Cowpie “fan” reputation for not being able to resist telling everybody just how great the Cowpie organization is (WAS). ---
**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:** [April 13, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/110 "2015-04-13T23:32:47Z")
I have one to add, since this thread has been resurrected and my post has been addressed point-by-point: I hate the Cowboys because their fans are mouthbreathing illiterates. I know the education system in Texas is hurting, but I assume they teach English. Capital letters, commas, periods, complete sentences, and sentence structure are GOOD things. God will not smite you for not being stupid, though apparently He will for learning about evolution. Thank you ever so very much. ---
**Author:** ![Texascowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Texascowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Texascowboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/111 "2015-04-13T23:35:17Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > All true but what have the 'pies done since they won the Super Bowl after the 1995 season? Answer: not a whole lot except make Tony Romo out to be a GOD and - get ready for this - pretty much SUCK. But then people like YOU come around to remind us all of the ‘pies’ “glory days” which all happened over two decades ago, now. Thank you for living up to the Wal-Mart Cowpie “fan” reputation for not being able to resist telling everybody just how great the Cowpie organization is (WAS). :smack: my response is? doesn’t matter to me what they haven’t done Dallas doesn’t have to worry bout no titles, like Jacksonville, Carolina, Philly, Buffalo, Arizona, San Diego, Atlanta, Tennessee, Houston, Cleveland, Detriot and Cincinnati players come and go glory lives on even if no other player wearing that star has been able to achieve it No expiration dates on the Lombardi title ---
**Author:** ![Texascowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Texascowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Texascowboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/112 "2015-04-13T23:37:16Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I have one to add, since this thread has been resurrected and my post has been addressed point-by-point: > > I hate the Cowboys because their fans are mouthbreathing illiterates. > > I know the education system in Texas is hurting, but I assume they teach English. Capital letters, commas, periods, complete sentences, and sentence structure are GOOD things. God will not smite you for not being stupid, though apparently He will for learning about evolution. > > Thank you ever so very much. mouth breathing 2 words not 1 whole word and yes I get it, I can talk, and back up what I say, you whine and talk smack achieving nothing in the end ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/113 "2015-04-13T23:40:50Z")
We hate them because their fans are like you. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/114 "2015-04-13T23:41:09Z")
> [@Texascowboy](#): > > mouth breathing 2 words not 1 whole word and yes I get it, > I can talk, and back up what I say, you whine and talk smack > achieving nothing in the end This almost reads like poetry. Maybe a haiku… _You whine and talk smack Achieve nothing in the end While I prove your point._ ---
**Author:** ![Texascowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Texascowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Texascowboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/115 "2015-04-13T23:42:14Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > We hate them because their fans are like you. Excellent you continue down your little road of fantasy hate and I’ll just continue to comment and set the record straight > [@TroutMan](#): > > This almost reads like poetry. Maybe a haiku… > > _You whine and talk smack > Achieve nothing in the end > While I prove your point._ only point I prove is my own, please be clear about that…this is 1 advantage of having dealt with this sort of crap before nothing is really a surprise, nothing jumps out just the same spew, followed by the same sets of facts that everyone just loves to hate ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/116 "2015-04-13T23:44:19Z")
> [@Texascowboy](#): > > :smack: my response is? doesn’t matter to me what they haven’t done > Dallas doesn’t have to worry bout no titles, like Jacksonville, Carolina, > Philly, Buffalo, Arizona, San Diego, Atlanta, Tennessee, Houston, > Cleveland, Detriot and Cincinnati > > players come and go glory lives on even if no other player > wearing that star has been able to achieve it > > No expiration dates on the Lombardi title Just sayin’ that Cowpie fans don’t seem to be able to admit that the 'pies have NOT been the paragon of excellence that they want to believe they’ve been throughout their entire history. Until about 1985, yes - they were certainly one of the league’s top teams. Then they suffered through 5 straight LOSING seasons before fleecing the Vikings for all those draft picks and then winning 3 S.B.s in 4 seasons (not bad, even I have to admit). Since then, though, they’ve been pretty much like most other teams in the N.F.L. - they’ve existed, and they haven’t done much. For over TWO DECADES, now. Meaning? That for over two decades the Cowpies have been pretty much like every other N.F.L. franchise - no better, no worse. Whether Cowpie Wal-Mart “fans” want to admit that or not. ---
**Author:** ![Texascowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Texascowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Texascowboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/117 "2015-04-13T23:49:16Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > Just sayin’ that Cowpie fans don’t seem to be able to admit that the 'pies have NOT been the paragon of excellence that they want to believe they’ve been throughout their entire history. Until about 1985, yes - they were certainly one of the league’s top teams. Then they suffered through 5 straight LOSING seasons before fleecing the Vikings for all those draft picks and then winning 3 S.B.s in 4 seasons (not bad, even I have to admit). Since then, though, they’ve been pretty much like most other teams in the N.F.L. - they’ve existed, and they haven’t done much. For over TWO DECADES, now. Meaning? That for over two decades the Cowpies have been pretty much like every other N.F.L. franchise - no better, no worse. Whether Cowpie Wal-Mart “fans” want to admit that or not. If fans want to rant and rave over Romo and 2 playoff wins be my guest… i’m not into discussing mediocrity and celebrating it like others remember they need a bed time story that makes them rest easy at night. I am more than comfortable knowing that any season w/o a super bowl win isn’t a season worth discussing But the ones that did result in titles I am more then glad to discuss. those are the ones who deserve it, not the ones who fail ---
**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:** [April 13, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/118 "2015-04-13T23:50:25Z")
> [@Texascowboy](#): > > mouth breathing 2 words not 1 whole word and yes I get it, > I can talk, and back up what I say, you whine and talk smack > achieving nothing in the end I’m a Steelers fan. In case you missed it in math class, 6 is greater than 5 (Lombardi Trophies) and 2 is greater than 1 (head-to-head Super Bowl victories). My favorite team has achieved more than yours. Tough luck for you. Incidentally, did it occur to you that hating another team is irrational on its merits? You’re coming in here trying to refute something that is by its very nature irrefutable. People tell me I take it too seriously. I even start my own thread about the Steelers every year. You’re making me seem sane and rational. ---
**Author:** ![Texascowboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Texascowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Texascowboy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/119 "2015-04-13T23:51:36Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I’m a Steelers fan. In case you missed it in math class, 6 is greater than 5 (Lombardi Trophies) and 2 is greater than 1 (head-to-head Super Bowl victories). My favorite team has achieved more than yours. Tough luck for you. > > Incidentally, did it occur to you that hating another team is irrational on its merits? You’re coming in here trying to refute something that is by its very nature irrefutable. People tell me I take it too seriously. I even start my own thread about the Steelers every year. You’re making me seem sane and rational. yea yea I heard all the news bout you being a steelers fan and Dallas is still considered better…anything else? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622/120 "2015-04-14T01:26:27Z")
> [@Texascowboy](#): > > Dallas is > still considered better. I’m sure we all value your opinion. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-hate-the-dallas-cowboys-so-much/423622.md?page=7)