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Dallas Cowboys Are Still America’s Team

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Every year ESPN, or some random site, polls around 500 to 2,000 people and asks them who their favorite team is, and every year after getting the results they put in bold headlines that the Dallas Cowboys Are No Longer America’s Team”.

Well, I hate to break it to them, but more than 2,000 people follow the NFL and no other team in the league draws the interest of fans on television or in person like the Cowboys do. One year it was the Green Bay Packers, the next it was the Pittsburgh Steelers, and now it’s supposed to be the Denver Broncos; search all you want but no team will ever dethrone Jerry’s boys for the top spot.

These sites fail to understand that people will watch every game and follow every transaction the Cowboys make even if they hate them. I don’t know about you but if I hate ice cream, the last place you will ever see me is at a Baskin Robbins. But that’s just how polarizing the Cowboys are. If you love them, you bleed blue and can’t stop talking about them, rooting for them or buying their merchandise; no matter how bad they are. And if you hate them, you find yourself uncontrollably drawn to them and everything they do just so you can blast all sorts of negative comments on social media and heckle your friends that actually do like them.

In 2013, a year in which the Cowboys went 8-8, they still had four of the top-six rated games in the NFL that season. And this year, a season in which they have started off with a 7-3 record, you can only expect those numbers to improve. When they defeated the Seattle Seahawks last month, they drew a higher overnight than every college football game since 2006, every MLB game since 2004, and every NBA game since 1998, a stat that comes courtesy of Sports Media Watch. Think about that, that’s over 30 million viewers just hoping and praying that the Cowboys either win or lose; hardly any of them were impartial viewers.

I happened to be at a music festival called Austin City Limits the weekend of that game, a festival that draws people from all over the world, and half of the festival was glued to the screen screaming “Let’s go Cowboys!” over and over again. When I was searching for photos from last week’s game in London, I had to filter through dozens of celebrity arrival and popular musician photos before I finally found pictures of the game. When looking at photos from the previous games played in London, they had more pictures of the hot dog stand man than they did of actual game action. So as you can see, their popularity extends across the pond.

So please ESPN, or whoever else is out there pushing their own agenda on us, stop the nonsense! It’s almost impossible to pull a fast one on the public in this age of information and all you are doing is starting to lose credibility with the public. Now if you will excuse me, I have to see if my Cowboys stocking cap has arrived.

Kelly Anderson is a blogger for www.RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @bgipp01 or add him to your network on Google.

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