When I was growing up Baltimore didn’t have a football team. Most would assume that I would look down the road to DC for a team to cheer for, but no. I looked all over the league and decided to become a Cowboys fan. (I was 12 and thought Troy Aikman was cute.) I dropped my Dallas Star for a Baltimore Raven in ’96. But there’s still a soft spot in my heart for the Cowboys.
I am saddened by their 1-7 record this season. I scoffed at their claims of going to the same Super Bowl that they also happen to be hosting. But I never thought they’d have a worse record than the lions (so far). Things are so bad that I’m suggesting that they give up their title as America’s Team.
Our nation has already sent a message to our elected officials, lets send another one to the Cowboys. Perhaps the Cowboys are a metaphor for our country’s current state. Their inflated ego matches our inflated deficit. The cost of the Cowboys stadium could send The President to India for at least a week. And both our country and the Cowboys have a high unemployment rate, what with Wade Phillips being axed.
So do the Cowboys really have the right to still be called America’s Team? And if not, who does? This may be the real decision of 2010.
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Absolutely first rate and copper-bottomed, gneltmeen!