ESPN.com is running a feature about which NFL team should be classified as “America’s Team.” The Cowboys have held the moniker for years, but considering they haven’t gotten out of the first round of the playoffs in over a decade, ESPN apparently thinks there is some room for debate.
The Cowboys, Packers, Patriots and Steelers are the four candidates the site deems worthy of being America’s team. Matt Mosley, James Walker, Kevin Seifert and Tim Graham debate each team’s case, while Mark Schlereth and James Hasty chip in with their usual meatless comments. (Seriously, does Schlereth ever say anything that knocks your socks off?)
This is a tough debate because with so much turnover from year to year in the NFL, teams really can’t build dynasties anymore. The Patriots could be considered a dynasty this decade (although if the Steelers win another Super Bowl this decade, they should be mentioned as well), just as the Cowboys were in the early 90s. You’d almost have to go decade by decade if you want to establish who America’s team is.
But personally, I don’t think there should be an “America’s team.” There are 32 teams in the NFL and I don’t think we need to have one classified as “America’s.”
Who travels better or represents better on the big stage than the Pittsburgh Steelers Fan Base!!
Go to any city in most countries and the Steelernation is recognized!
The Dallas Cowboys always have been and always will be America’s Team. For Pittsburg to take over that moniker is nothing more than wishful thinking on Steeler’s fans part. Yes, the Steeler’s have 6 SB (the 5th one being questionable due to bad play-calling…you know it’s true), but the Cowboys have 5 SB and have been to 8. The Cowboys have more fans than any other team and they sell more merchandise than any other team. People either love them or they hate them…there is no in between. The Cowboys are America’s Team, so get over it and quit whining like a bunch a little cry-babies.
Btw…we all know that ESPN is a joke.
dallas may have had the title of americas team for so many years, but i guarantee the saints have awider fan base than any other team
Dallas is Texas Team- not America
Dallas SUCKS! Go Colts!!!!!
@ highvoltedge: I was in New Orleans this past weekend (from Dallas) for the Cowboys vs Saints game. I shut down Bourbon St. as the Cowboys proceeded to whoop the Saints ass and silence a city…
when they say “Who Dat?” Tell’m “We Dat!”
AMERICA’S TEAM REIGNS SUPREME…HOW BOUT DEM COWBOYS…!!!
I was in Greeley, CO and found a Packer bar.
We could fill the Cowboys new stadium with people WAITING for season tickets.
The only professional sports franchise owned by the fans – now that’s America.
Sorry Cowboys fans, America hasn’t named you America’s team, your front office did as a marketing ploy back in the 70s. The circus clown you have as an owner is trying to keep his hold on the title but with every playoff loss, it slips further away. And the “travel well” theory of the Steelers is a joke…there are so many transplanted fans of every team, in every city, it gives the appearance fans made the trip when the cameras pan the stands. The Saints?? You’re kidding right? I would think you’d have had to win something to be considered “America’s Team”.
But I’m with you Anthony…there shouldn’t be an “America’s team”…nor is there one.
go teamThe Dallas Cowboys,are and always will be, Americas’s Team. The ratings and merchandise sales numbers don’t lie, wether you all like it or not! If America was a a team, it would be the Dallas Cowboys. The most watched, most valuable, most fans and quality organization, just like America. Everybody wants to come to America, just like all players want to play for the Cowboys. The Steelers, Packers and Patriots are never going to get this title, so stop and just let go. What other team, but the Cowboys, can go on a playoff win drought for more than a decade and remain atop in worth and rating! Only 1 America’s Team, and that is the Dallas Cowboys!
I have to say, Cowboys fans have a great sense of humor. They’re dillusional, as made obvious by Conrad, but damn funny.
Cowboy fans… Get over yourselves! You all sound like those players that get interviewed and claim they’re Soldiers! Dallas isn’t America’s team and those players aren’t Soldiers… Come to my world for a week and then tell me you’re a Soldier or that Dallas is America’s team… For all intents and purposes I can claim that the Falcons or Titans or Browns is America’s team… but they’re not… There is no America’s Team! and should not be one… You guys are worse than people crying over racism!
Conrad: there is a H in whether and thanks for the marketing sales lesson… I’m sure Dallas has the best sales in TX over your other TX team, but Nationally you need to recheck…
dallas is americas team. we have the most fans, most merch sold, and so on and so forth. the steelers always seem to find a way to s;’t into there wins. i’m from pa and i can’t stand he steelers. most of their super bowl wins were given to them by the refs or a lucky a’; play. look it up steeler fans
This is a complete joke…
Dallas is weak, Pittsburgh has become a joke with a friggin idiot at QB…
Regardless, there is only ONE Americas Team…
AND IT DOESNT RESIDE IN THE NFL!!!!
The 1980 United States Olympic Hockey Team is HANDS DOWN now and FOVEVER — AMERICAS TEAM!
without a doubt the Dallas Cowboys are America’s Team.Have lived in all parts of America and by far there are Cowboy fans all over it’s not even close.You either luv them or you hate them.Numbers don’t lie.
The Cowboys gave themselves the name not America and why would anyone want that title..Think about it. If their Americas team would that mean every American would just root for them. Excluding the Dallas fans most peopel hate the Cowboys…So maybe they should be called Americas Most Hated Team.if u ask me the Yankees would be fit to whole that title….Baseball America .apple pie heard that before
Pittsburgh steelers. End that debate, for the cowboys? Reallly I see so few cowboys fans, I see steelers fans everywhere I go. And the steelers sell the most nfl gear, look it up. Not the cowboys, as for the 5th ring being in debate, what about that bs call in the 90′s which gave the cowboys a ring? And about the QB? Really you have murders dog killers, just to name a few they were all charged he was not. Was it stuppid yes. Was the punishment worth the crime no.
this is the best team in the world no other team comes close
truth is that Packers have always been Americas team, since their first championship….the rest are only posers…