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palhal

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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 4 at 6:10 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 3 at 11:29 a.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>palhal</b></div><div>Just to comment on the Dallas Cowboys. I'm 70 years old and am a fan of NHL, heck I was big fan of the AFL. When the Cowboys were successful, they had so much air time, They were always on Sunday (or Monday), and remember there were just two networks, CBS and NBC carrying Sunday games. ABC had the Monday night game.
Fans like winners, so many had the Cowboys as their team. Nothing like going to bed happy on Sunday night (Dallas won) before you went to work and suffering through five days of work the looking forward to another Cowboy win. Same theory why so many folks liked Tiger Woods. Nothing like supporting a winner, and going to bed happy on Sunday because your guy won.

But it sure is easy to have the tide change on teams. The arrogance of owner Jones to have the Cowboys called "Americas Team". (yeah the NFL encouraged it)
A rich owner/GM who has been awful with his coaching/player personnel for the past 20 or more....sure makes it easy for fans to have a hate for a particular team.

A comment on the Leafs. It is so unbelievable to me, that owners of the Leafs have hired so many poor GMs in manage such a valuable asset in the past 55 years. To me that has been the Leaf misfortune, poor personnel decisions in all aspects of the team.....for much of the past 55 years. In that way, the Cowboys and the Leafs are somewhat the same.</div></div>

I, unfortunately, am a 26 year old Cowboys fan born and raised in the DC area (family ties to Dallas, it was either Cowboys or Eagles for me growing up,) so not only have endured the trauma of everybody hating me for being a Cowboys fan, but I've never seen them even be remotely close to Super Bowl caliber. Only saving grace for me is that all my Commanders fan friends can't talk **** because they are usually worse lmao
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 3 at 9:29 a.m.