storyteller, note that at no point did I ever even imply I would want the iggles to win another football game…ever again. Cowgirls / Iggles just means the NFL needs a way for both teams to lose.
While we don’t agree on whether or not Eli is a bust, on this we can certainly agree.
I’m not a sports fan. I barely pay any attention to sports.
But while I have nothing really against the Dallas Cowboys, I’m well and truly tired of hearing their fans calling them “America’s Team.” Without that, they’d just be another football team that isn’t one of the ones I sometimes remember to root for.
So, I can’t say I hate the team. I do have a grudge against the more outspoken Cowboys fans. Which often translates to a good deal of schadenfreude when the Cowboys lose.
Because they wear white at home. God meant for home teams to wear dark colors at home.
Because they’re illogically placed in the NFC East
Because of that stupid little mass pop-up the offensive line used to do before every snap.
Because their cheerleaders are way oversold.
Because they’re from Texas. Between the Cowboys and Bush family, I’d be in favor of taking that Lone Star out of the US flag and going back to 49 states.
I thought that the Oiler front office was Houston’s arch rival. Growing up in Houston made me a Bud Adams hater, not an Oilers fan.
I hated the Cowboys from the '70s until a few years ago. Back then I used to say that rooting for the Cowboys was like rooting for Exxon. Dallas loved them like they loved Ross Perot, Neiman Marcus and anything else that was big and came out of Dallas. Also, at the end of an era with Vince Lombardis, Joe Paternos… players with heart and quarterbacks that changed plays on a hunch, they had computers and Tom Landry. The America’s Team stuff just clinched it–they were the team that the powers that be had decreed we were supposed to like.
In the past few years I’ve grown to like the Cowboys, but that’s just because my son loves them. Having Dat Nguyen helps since a late friend grew up with him.
Oh yeah, my sister lived in Hawaii through the '70s but came back to Texas to attend grad school. In 1980 at a party, she asked the immortal question:“Excuse me, but who is Tom Landry?” No matter what, I will always love her for that.
Yeah, and it’s certainly starting to look like I was a moron on the first point, too.
Agreed, which is going to make it an ugly scene in Week 9 – an Eagles win over Dallas would be a huge boost for the Giants.
I’ll be going back and forth between cheering for the Eagles and vomiting in a bucket.
Growing up in Houston made me both an Oilers fan AND a Bud Adams hater. In fact, the only entity in the NFL I hate more than the Cowboys is Bud Adams. I ceased to be an Oiler fan when Bud Adams left Houston with them. That was the last straw for me. As far as I know, they just dropped off the face of the earth. (Titans? Who are they? 
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IRC, you became an avid fan of the Giants later in life rather than as a kid?
If true, that would help explain why you hate the Eagles more than the Cowboys.
For me it is easy. Week 9, I will be rooting against the Cowboys.
Jim
The intensity of the Redskins-Cowboys rivalry goes back to the 1960s and has survived a number of NFL realignments and reorganizations.
By now, we Redskins fans hate the Cowboys because we always have.
The “America’s Team” bit certainly helped (regardless of whether the Cowboys started it, they’ve hardly been averse to it), as did their ‘our shit don’t stink’ attitude during the Staubach era. They paraded this clean-cut (and reactionary) image, but on the field, they were just as dirty as anyone else.
I asked my husband this question yesterday. His answer was, “If I wanted to watch a bunch of felons play football I’d rent The Longest Yard.”
Don’t much care myself. Then again, I’ve been known to wear the Cheesehead to the bar so there ya go.
He’s obviously confusing the Cowboys with the Bengals. 
But if you want to see a team that is praised far more than it deserved, you’d think the 1985 Chicago Bears won 8 Superbowls in 10 years while developing a cure for cancer. Sheesh.
(Sorry for going off topic, but this is important.)
Remember the poll that the Houston Chronicle did when Bud Adams announced the move? A minority of the respondents opposed the move; a larger minority supported it, but the most popular response was “Good riddance!” He finally screwed up and got a winning team, then fired Bum, sent the defense to Oakland and ran off everyone else.
The only thing * as bad as Bud Adams in the NFL is Art Modell, who [del]!@#$%^&[/del] I hate *even though * I am divorcing my wife/ex-wife who has family in Ohio.
Oh God, that was better than a safety.
Art Buchwald said it was American to hate the Cowboys.
So if you don’t hate the Cowboys, the terrorists win.
Just so you know, the Redskins wear white jerseys at home too.
Quite true – I grew up loathing all sports, and didn’t get into football until I was in my 30’s. And yep, that certainly goes a long way towards explaining things.
I was very much aware of the Cowboy hatred around my house in the 70’s and 80’s – I just didn’t give a rat’s ass about the game then. Now that I’m a fan on my own terms, I certainly can’t stand the Cowboys, but the true seething hate goes straight to Philly (proximity to their fan base plays a big part in that as well).
That is what I thought.
There will be a lot of age related stuff to this. I am betting that when today’s teens are in their 30’s and 40’s it will be New England that inspires a deep dark hatred most.
No one really hates teams like the **Giants ** or Jets as they have been largely inept or at most cyclical. They cannot outspend other teams and the fan base is largely local, just a very large local and relatively mild. It does not reflect the hatred that the Mets and especially the Yanks get.
The worst a **Giants ** fan will do is insist that LT was the best linebacker ever, which Bears fans will violently object to.
Jim
I think I would be VERY tempted to root for the Browns if they played Dallas.