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The term '''''America's Team''''' is a popular nickname in American sports that most often refers to the [[Dallas Cowboys]] of the [[National Football League]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/NFL-Films-Cowboys-Complete-History/dp/B0000C8AO2/ref=pd_sim_dbs_sg_1/105-6879553-0982814|title=NFL Films: The Dallas Cowboys|accessdate=2007-02-03}}</ref> The nickname originated with the team's 1978 highlight film, where the narrator opens with the following introduction:{{quote|They appear on television so often that their faces are as familiar to the public as presidents and movie stars. They are the Dallas Cowboys, "America's Team."<ref name="NFL Network">{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-top-ten/09000d5d8074cf30/Top-Ten-Nicknames-America-s-Team |title=NFL Top Ten, Top Ten Nicknames: America's Team|accessdate=2009-10-09|publisher=NFL Network}}</ref>}} The term is recognized and often used by media outlets, including [[ESPN]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2833317 |title=NFL announces 2007 MNF schedule|accessdate=2007-04-11|publisher=ESPN.com}}</ref> [[Yahoo!]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/76481/the-hottest-numbers-top-20-jersey |title=The Hottest Numbers: Top 20 Jerseys|accessdate=2007-10-05|publisher=Yahoo!}}</ref> [[HBO#Sports|HBO Sports]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/news.cfm?id=C59439FA-F1E3-059B-29D191DCD4BF9E0C|title=HBO's 'Hard Knocks' Returning To Cowboys Camp|accessdate=2008-05-08|publisher=DallasCowboys.com }}</ref> and ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''.<ref>{{cite |author=SI|title=America's Team: A Week In the Life of the Dallas Cowboys |date=December 12, 1994|publisher=Sports Illustrated}}</ref>
The term '''''America's Team''''' is a popular nickname in American sports that most often refers to the known felons that are the [[Dallas Cowboys]] of the [[National Football League]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazon.com/NFL-Films-Cowboys-Complete-History/dp/B0000C8AO2/ref=pd_sim_dbs_sg_1/105-6879553-0982814|title=NFL Films: The Dallas Cowboys|accessdate=2007-02-03}}</ref> The nickname originated with the team's 1978 highlight film, where the narrator opens with the following introduction:{{quote|They appear on television so often that their faces are as familiar to the public as presidents and movie stars. They are the Dallas Cowboys, "America's Team."<ref name="NFL Network">{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-top-ten/09000d5d8074cf30/Top-Ten-Nicknames-America-s-Team |title=NFL Top Ten, Top Ten Nicknames: America's Team|accessdate=2009-10-09|publisher=NFL Network}}</ref>}} The term is recognized and often used by media outlets, including [[ESPN]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2833317 |title=NFL announces 2007 MNF schedule|accessdate=2007-04-11|publisher=ESPN.com}}</ref> [[Yahoo!]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/76481/the-hottest-numbers-top-20-jersey |title=The Hottest Numbers: Top 20 Jerseys|accessdate=2007-10-05|publisher=Yahoo!}}</ref> [[HBO#Sports|HBO Sports]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dallascowboys.com/news/news.cfm?id=C59439FA-F1E3-059B-29D191DCD4BF9E0C|title=HBO's 'Hard Knocks' Returning To Cowboys Camp|accessdate=2008-05-08|publisher=DallasCowboys.com }}</ref> and ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''.<ref>{{cite |author=SI|title=America's Team: A Week In the Life of the Dallas Cowboys |date=December 12, 1994|publisher=Sports Illustrated}}</ref>


On their Top 10 show, the [[NFL Network]] named the Dallas Cowboys' "America's Team" as the #1 nickname in NFL history. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story?id=09000d5d8087044e&template=with-video&confirm=true |title=Top 10 nicknames in NFL history|accessdate=2009-07-31|publisher=NFL Network}}</ref>
On their Top 10 show, the [[NFL Network]] named the Dallas Cowboys' "America's Team" as the #1 nickname in NFL history. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/nflnetwork/story?id=09000d5d8087044e&template=with-video&confirm=true |title=Top 10 nicknames in NFL history|accessdate=2009-07-31|publisher=NFL Network}}</ref>

Revision as of 19:21, 7 January 2010

The Dallas Cowboys are commonly referred to as America's Team

The term America's Team is a popular nickname in American sports that most often refers to the known felons that are the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League.[1] The nickname originated with the team's 1978 highlight film, where the narrator opens with the following introduction:

They appear on television so often that their faces are as familiar to the public as presidents and movie stars. They are the Dallas Cowboys, "America's Team."[2]

The term is recognized and often used by media outlets, including ESPN,[3] Yahoo!,[4] HBO Sports,[5] and Sports Illustrated.[6]

On their Top 10 show, the NFL Network named the Dallas Cowboys' "America's Team" as the #1 nickname in NFL history. [7]

History

Bob Ryan, now Vice President and editor-in-chief of NFL Films, coined this for the Cowboys while preparing and editing the team’s 1978 season highlight film.[8] 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.


Ryan told the NFL Network, for their Top Ten Nicknames show:

I saw all these fans in away stadiums. Hey, they're the most popular team in the country. How can I use that? Why don't we call them "America's Team"? [2]

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 for CBS introduced the Cowboys as America’s Team and the name stuck.

Dallas' Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry originally did not approve of the appellation of America's Team. He felt that it would give opposing teams extra incentive to play harder. Eventually he gave in and actually came to like the name.[9]

Records and Media

NFL Films The Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys: The Complete History of America's Team 1960-2003 DVD Cover
Directed byNFL Films
StarringThe Dallas Cowboys
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
November 25, 2003
Running time
73:00
LanguageEnglish

In 2003, NFL Films released a DVD collection chronicling the Dallas Cowboys franchise entitled The Dallas Cowboys: The Complete History of America's Team 1960-2003. In 2008, NFL Films would release an updated DVD of The History of the Dallas Cowboys.

The popularity of the Cowboys as America's Team has been supported somewhat by such NFL records as "Team with Most Consecutive Sold Out Games", a streak of 160 home and away games (including playoffs) that began on December 23, 1990, at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium and came to an end on December 24, 1999, in a Christmas Eve game against the New Orleans Saints in the Louisiana Super Dome.[10] Other examples are the NFL games featuring the Cowboys that result in record-breaking ratings at the time of broadcast, such as 7 of the 8 Super Bowl games featuring the Cowboys and the NFC Championship Game between the Cowboys and 49ers, the only non-Super Bowl NFL game to be ranked in the Top 45 Primetime Telecasts of All Time.[11]

Other claims to the name

The Atlanta Braves laid claim to the name due to their games being broadcast on cable television systems nationwide on WTBS, building a fan base in areas of the United States far removed from a Major League Baseball team. A 1982 issue of Sports Illustrated had referred to the Braves as "America's Team II".[12]

Franchises with long histories and large nationwide fan bases are occasionally referred to as America's Team. The most prominent example is probably the New York Yankees, who rose to prominence in the United States in the 1920s.

Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney dismissed the suggestion that the Steelers were "America's Team". "'We didn't want that,' Rooney said. 'We're Pittsburgh's team. We feel strongly about that.'"

References

  1. ^ "NFL Films: The Dallas Cowboys". Retrieved 2007-02-03.
  2. ^ a b "NFL Top Ten, Top Ten Nicknames: America's Team". NFL Network. Retrieved 2009-10-09.
  3. ^ "NFL announces 2007 MNF schedule". ESPN.com. Retrieved 2007-04-11.
  4. ^ "The Hottest Numbers: Top 20 Jerseys". Yahoo!. Retrieved 2007-10-05.
  5. ^ "HBO's 'Hard Knocks' Returning To Cowboys Camp". DallasCowboys.com. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
  6. ^ SI (December 12, 1994), America's Team: A Week In the Life of the Dallas Cowboys, Sports Illustrated
  7. ^ "Top 10 nicknames in NFL history". NFL Network. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  8. ^ "DALLAS COWBOYS". The The Handbook of Texas Online - The University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved 2007-02-03.
  9. ^ Guinn, Jeff (1996), Dallas Cowboys: Our Story, Summit Publishing Group
  10. ^ "Cowboys Mystique by the Dallas Cowboys Fan Club".
  11. ^ "List of Most Watched Television Episodes".
  12. ^ Wulf, Steve (1982-08-09), America's Team II, Sports Illustrated

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