Cowboys Vs. Giants

[Y2KPewterSS]

you must be a cowgirls fan

[Chaos]

Yea a term coined by the cowboys and their fans I'm sure

[SleeperC5]

Time for someone to get lynched.

Now that's no way to talk to a fellow TEXAN pardner !!

[Y2KPewterSS]

Yea a term coined by the cowboys and their fans I'm sure

Thank ESPN, CBS and the NFL for that term It was their way or marketing the NFL back in those days.

[FuhBreezeE]

Now that's no way to talk to a fellow TEXAN pardner !!

I wonder where your loyalties lie....

[Sarge]

Detroit Lions FTW

[SleeperC5]

I wonder where your loyalties lie....

It's here in TEXAS but not with the cowgirls or the spurts for that matter !

[Y2KPewterSS]

It's here in TEXAS but not with the cowgirls or the spurts for that matter !

Rockets and Texans?

[FuhBreezeE]

Rockets and Texans?

[Chaos]

from wikipedia

Bob Ryan, the Vice President and editor-in-chief of NFL Films, coined this for the Cowboys in 1979. After preparing and editing the team’s 1978 season highlight film he had to come up with a title for the film. He was quoted as saying:

"I wanted to come up with a different twist on their team highlight film. I noticed then, and had noticed earlier, that wherever the Cowboys played, you saw people in the stands with Cowboys jerseys and hats and pennants. Plus, they were always the national game on television."
Drawing upon this inspiration and that of other nationally followed sports teams, such as the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in college football and the Boston Celtics in pro basketball, which Ryan said "are all America’s teams," he decided to use America’s Team as the name of the highlight film.

During the Cowboys' first game of the 1979 season, a nationally televised game against the St. Louis Cardinals (which Dallas won 22-21), the television announcer introduced the Cowboys as America’s Team and the nickname stuck.

Dallas’ Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry originally did not approve of the appellation. He felt that it would give opposing teams extra incentive to play harder. Eventually he gave in and actually came to like the name

[Y2KPewterSS]

from wikipedia

Good post, just like I said, the NFL and CBS, not the Dallas fans coined the phrase. ESPN did a lot to carry on the term for many years, they just had no part in originating it.

[Chaos]

Good post, just like I said, the NFL and CBS, not the Dallas fans coined the phrase. ESPN did a lot to carry on the term for many years, they just had no part in originating it.

NFL Films did, not the NFL itself, although it's owned by the NFL. it's not like the people who run the NFL itself came up with it.

It's a marketing ploy to sell a film. hey...suckers are born every minute, and become cowboys fans!!

[SleeperC5]

Rockets and Texans?

Mavericks and Rockets for basketball and Texans for football.

[Y2KPewterSS]

NFL Films did, not the NFL itself, although it's owned by the NFL. it's not like the people who run the NFL itself came up with it.

It's a marketing ploy to sell a film. hey...suckers are born every minute, and become cowboys fans!!

NFL owning NFL films, means the NFL came up with it

[Y2KPewterSS]

Mavericks and Rockets for basketball and Texans for football.

[FSANE]

sooo any more bets?

[Chaos]

NFL owning NFL films, means the NFL came up with it

no it doesn't

[blue02Z]

fabrizi, you going to the game sunday?

[Y2KPewterSS]

no it doesn't

Agree to disagree then.

[FuhBreezeE]

fabrizi, you going to the game sunday?

I wish!!! I'll be watching