Is Every NFL Blogger Jealous Of The Dallas Cowboys?

It sure seems that the unoriginal thing to do in the NFL blogosphere is to write up some idiotic post about the Dallas Cowboys, and how much they suck, or how bad their players are or how Michael Irvin snorted coke.

In the FANsided Network we have witnessed the Chiefs, the Jaguars, the Giants, the Eagles, the Redskins, the Vikings, the Panthers , the Packers, and now the Miami Dolphins have all taken unwarranted stabs at the famed Dallas Cowboys or their players. I am sure I missed a few times because the hate got overwhelming for a little bit there.

So, what brings these bloggers to write such drivel? ENVY. ENVY does. The Dallas Cowboys are the most-glorious NFL team in the history of the game. Not only do they have more Super Bowls, they have more playoff victories, more divisional titles and more fans.

But here are the top 5 reasons why so many NFL bloggers are envious of the Dallas Cowboys:

  • 5 Super Bowls in 8 appearances. The minority of NFL fans who do not like the Cowboys drool over this statistic. It drives them bonkers. All they can do is talk about how the Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game since 1996, yet they easily forget how the Cowboys dominated the 1990s. Success fluctuates. But none of you guys can claim the same fame the Cowboys can. And it bothers you so much. Envious.
  • Michael Irvin. How this class-act Hall of Fame receiver brings so much angst from fellow NFL bloggers is beyond me. Certainly it is envy. So, Michael had a few off the field problems. Big deal. So have hundreds of other NFL players. Big whoopdy doo. Irvin was an incredible NFL force who other NFL bloggers love to hate. Not only was he one of the best receivers in the game, he now can claim fame to giving one of the best Hall of Fame speeches ever. Yeah, we forgave him for his sins ages ago. But the minority anti-Cowboys fans just love to hate him. Where are your three rings?
  • Jerry Jones. For some reason, NFL bloggers love to hate geniuses. Don’t ask me, but if that’s not ridiculous, I don’t know what is. Jerry Jones is an NFL mastermind. Unlike Daniel Snyder, who breaks everything he touches (See WSJ Monday edition about how Six Flags is in shambles ever since Snyder bought ownership into the amusement park franchise), Jerry Jones brought the Cowboys out of the gutter for its greatest Super Bowl run ever. He is about to do it again. Envy is dripping from the minority Anti-Cowboy crowd.
  • “How About Them Cowboys?” Yes, the famous words out of former coach Jimmy Johnson sums it up. Those words continue to ring through the NFL, irking the minority anti-Cowboys crowd, all of whom are so original all they can do is talk about how the Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game since 1996. How about them Cowboys is a quote that will live in NFL history and it will be reborn time after time after time after time. But they hate it.
  • Class. The Dallas Cowboys are the classiest NFL team. It all started with the suit-wearing, well-dressed Tom Landry. The silver and blue uniforms with the magnificent star makes the best uniforms in the league. Other teams hate it because they look so classy. So do the bloggers.
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No, their PR people just thought it sounded better than the original nicknames, the "City of Brotherly Sodomy," or the "City who's men can all go fuck themselves." :) 

Hahahaha! :-)

So why is it called the "City of Brotherly Love"? Would that classify as an oxymoron? ;-)

Exactly. Having the worst fans in the known universe is a burden the Eagles team have to deal with every year.  Also, they have to live in or at least near Philadelphia. No wonder that one guy is depressed. I would be too.

RG,

The Eagles fans boo Santa Claus and would boo Mother Teresa if she were still alive ;-)

Dan...you've changed things.
Forever. 
To them, you're just a freak... 
Like ME!
HaHAHAHAhaHAhAHaahahahahah!!!!

Staub, thank you for realizing what it's about here. I do tend to be hyperbolic and know how to succeed with it. It seems like I truly irritated someone, which is of course, what I am here to do on occasions.

Username3000, Welcome. I have been waiting patiently for your arrival. Please, do away with the scum invading my site. Please, as the Joker caused havoc in Gotham, so are Redskins and Eagles fans causing damage here.

And writing that a player is likely out for the year when all credible sources say the player will be fine in a few weeks? Do you have some other euphemism for how he lies in those situations?

I appreciate your situation Staubach. You don't want to piss Dan off.  But it's a little hard to read reports of outrage over bias after choking down so many of Dan's uses of...extreme hyperbole...or whatever you want to call it.

Anyway, once again you're a calm rational voice in a sea of insanity. I'll happily conceed that the Cowboys are under the microscope and that people are quick to criticize, but -- much like Dan -- that's exactly where they want to be.  JJ admitted as much on Hard Knocks last night.  You have to take the good with the bad.

And it's not like other teams aren't placed under a microscope.  The media loves to bash Dan Snyder every chance they get.  I'm not saying some of it isn't justified, but the media is vicious towards other teams too. The New York media is hard on the Giants.  The Eagles fans boo their own players when they're drafted.  Every team has it's own problems.

Dearest Redskins Tulip...

You know, you like to come on here and try to smack around my faithful with your absurd intellect.  But I know its all to mask the fact that like your shit squad in our great nations capital, you too have no balls.

Everyone, I am the Username3000 and resident terrorist exterminator.  I've been summoned here by The LandryHat Enforcer Lance in an effort to rid our beloved Texas team of this grotesque abomination we refer to as non-Cowboys fans.  I'm excited to meet you all and get to work... We got any Philly degenerate trailor park crud here? 

as for "terroists" that is what is known as extreme hyperbole ;-)

RG, I am speaking in general. The Cowboys have a HUGE microscope on them. Things can happen with other teams and are not noticed while they get magnified on this team.
If a guy plays ten years with another team, and one year with Dallas. If he screws up the media will say he was a Cowboy. Very disproportionate. It just is.
Bias just means absense of objectivity. Of course we all do that. Anyone that says they write objectively is kidding themselves. We can try like heck to stay in the middle, but always will lean in the way of our preferences. Human nature. I guess this is what happens with a franchise that there is no middle ground opinion on. They will get either too much credit or too much blame. Extreme on both ends. Just an observation not a whine (irritating at times but I get it). Most of my whines go back to the 70's but that is neither here nor there. :-)

I will not get into personalities cause frankly I like most of you guys. Each has it's own unique slants or quirks if you will. You all bring something different to the table

RG, give it up man. Give it up.

Staubach, have you been reading? Nobody's denying that we hate the cowboys. I'm certainly biased against them. But how can you complain about bias when Dan is calling football players terrorists? 

At least what we're reporting is based on actual reports from actual real people and not fabricated hallucinations, like when Dan just decides to claim that Donovan McNabb is most likely done for the year because he was held out of practice for a day. 

You can't claim it's unfair that other people have a bias while remaining silent when your own lead blogger is the worst offender of them all (and by a large margin).  You know better than that Staubach.  You strike me as one of the most fair and level-headed people around here. Tell me I'm wrong about him.

The Haley "story" does give support to what LH is saying here. The "act" occured while Haley was a SAN FRANCISCO 49er!!! Yet everyone is talking about it as it were a Cowboy thing. How can one deny this obvious bias?

Mike777VSP -

Just to let you know I am the one providing the site with videos for Hard Knocks so you might want to watch who you call a loser.

Dan's just insecure because he isn't from Dallas and started rooting for the Cowboys in the 90s. Deep down he knows he's not a real fan. The Cowboys might have five rings, but what do you have? I was born in Kansas City. We haven't even been to a Super Bowl in 40 years, yet we lead the league in sellouts. We don't play the game, so I'm talking about what we do do--support our team. The Chiefs have the best fans in the league, so go Charles Haley yourself with your five rings. You know we have better fans. Not just a bunch of bandwagon punks.

how bout them cowboys!~!!!!!!! yehaw. there does that sound better. i still like the shine from them there tropies.....lets see that be 5, count em 5. hahahahahahahahahahahahhaha

well gayskins dude this is a COWBOYS site..not a gayskins..i know why you hate witten so much...everyone knows that one of your best players is tight end chris cooley and he is not even consider to be in the top 3 best tight ends..hahahahaha he led the gayskins with 66 passes last year..while Witten had 96..hahaha you hate witten because he makes your player looks bad..and if you dont like how this web site is..well then get out!!!

I'll stop terrorizing your site as soon as you stop shoving your junk in everyone's face,  and pretending like your delusional Cowboys fantasies have some basis in fact. 

Tell me, have you ever had an off season where you didn't predict the Cowboys were going to win the superbowl? Or at least contend? Did you ever rank them less than 1st in the NFC east? EVER???  Even during the Campo years?

We both know you were sitting there thinking "Dave Campo can turn it around! If we can win these games we can sneak into the playoffs and we'll get hot and win it all and WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE SUPERBOWL AGAIN!!!"

As T.O. might say, "Getcha hand lotion ready."

stop terrorizing my site Guy.

Dan, I'm sorry if my comments get you "out of the mood" but I can't help but call you out when you make your absurd statements. 

But I'm not one to deny you your homoerotic mastubatory fantasies of the Cowboys.  Let me try to make it up to you. If it helps,  close your eyes, bite your lip again, and think some more about those five superbowl trophies while we go over the basic points of your article again... 
That's it...yeah. Michael Irvin is a class act.  So what if he had a drug problem and smoked crack?  Even if he didn't deserve to be there, he gave a great speech when he actually did suck off Peter King and other voters and got himself inducted! 

And Jerry Jones looks so sexy with is facelifts...He's such a genius...they're all jealous of your five trophies. 
Tom Landry in a suit.  That's what I'm 'talkin about!
And just to put you over the edge...
How about them cowboys????

There. Better now?

That's great Mike. It's really clever when you steal my joke and use it against me two lines below my own entry.  Maybe next you should write a bitchy article about how everyone's picking on the Cowboys because, deep down, we're jealous.

Or even better, you could rub your two lingering brain cells together and pretend to have an original thought.  Yeah, change the idea ever so slightly so that it's not so obviously a pedestrian retread of Dan's own limited creativity.  You could, I don't know, call my penis orange or something and infer that I'm secretly a fan just like you guys.  That will make you look really snazzy and original.

Oh, and Mike, I hate to break it to you but Jason Witten didn't start a trend by doing united way commercials.  It's something that the NFL has been doing for decades. Sorry to burst your bubble, but not everything is about you.

Redskin Guy...LMAO...I can just picture you there in your gold & burgundy...one hand typing, a bag of Cheetos nearby...the keyboard is orange and so is your penis...you had to have been masturbating as you typed, and I bet deep down you have Cowboys socks on as we speak, because deep down YOU TRULY ARE A COWBOY!
And Gene/Jeannie/Jean/It - I saw an episode on NFL Network were one of the 'Skins players (which one, who knows, who cares) was having a camp for UNITED WAY!  Go figure "IT".  He must have wanted to be like Witten.  Go find your crackhead wide receiver (that wasn't my bag/line/coke/) since we know your skanky ass likes the "crackpipe" as well.
And Zach, watch HBO tonight son and see what A REAL TEAM LOOKS LIKE ON HARD KNOCKS...YA LOSER!

5 bowls bitches= 5 bowls. we are the greatest football team of all time. i love it. say the truth and all these other blogging sites cry and whine like little bitches. even the women are here cryin their ass off too. oh no we offended someone here???? well how the hell does it feel for a change???????? the shoes on the other foot

On no, evil Chiefs twin brother No 2 pops his head in.

Stop terrorizing my site.

You know, after getting caught up with Dave's articles from Riggo's Rag and your articles here, I had a revelation.  Dan I know your secret of success.  You like to pull a Charles Haley when you write articles.  You masturbate into your readers faces and we never even realized it.
I can just see you at the computer, typing...
Dan <typing>: Dallas is the Best Team in the NFL

Dan: Ohhh. Yes! Yessss! That's it baby! We're the BEST....

Dan <typing some more>: NFL's Best Tight End Jason Witten...
Dan: Oh God...Oh God, YES!!! He's gonna be in the halll of fame...better than Gonzalez...awww yeah...
Dan <Typing one handed by now>: Shaun Springs is afraid of Terell Owens

Dan: That's it baby! You're afraid of us! Afraid of how NAUGHTY we are! I've got something for you to fear...IN MY PANTS!!!!  YES...YES...GOD YESSS!!!!

Dan: <hits 'publish' button and grabs paper towel>

Seriously. Re-read those articles and tell me that they're not masturbatory fantasies.

Because you lie and distort the truth and provoke people with inflamatory statements? And then whine about it when people dare to fight back?

There is a reason I am one of the top Cowboys blogs, Redskins Guy. Now go make riggosrag a champ like this blog. Go do it.

As for Adam, there is nothing delusional about 5 rings, pal. Nothing.

Dan, you are such a whiny bitch. You devote your entire blog to making extreme, sensational statements that are often untrue and are designed to provoke people, and then you bitch and moan when people get provoked. 
Take some ownership of the situation.  People aren't jealous of you, they're pissed at you, because you go out of your way to piss people off.  
Let's take a look at some of the things Dan has said in his web site recently...
"Malcolm Kelly is likely gone for the year..." [By all accounts, completely wrong]

"Steve Smith is a terrorist."

"Washington Redskins Safety Shawn Springs." [He's a cornerback]

"Miami Dolphins are Rediculous"

"We know the Redskins ownership is as dirty as sewer water." [Had no bearing on the subject he was even writing about and offered no supporting evidence at all]

"The Arizona Cardinals are one of the most pathetic football organizations ever to exist."

"Bill Parcells Continues His Hatred For Cowboys"

"Donovan McNabb may be gone for the season with shoulder problems and you can here the crickets chirping over at our sister site here." [Again, this was completely wrong]
Please keep in mind that all of these quotes are from the LAST MONTH, during a particularly slow period of the off-season.  I found these quotes in about five minutes, and there are hundreds more.  I'm also not even including the "top ten reasons to hate the Redskins" style posts because at least we're divisional rivals that you're supposed to hate.  No, this is just irrational lashing out at people for ratings and for fun. 

Cowboys fans, people provoke and dislike you because Dan likes it that way.  It gives him more hits for his site. 

I wish my team was filled with degenerate crybabies too and that our owner was a sniveling rodent who'd had more plastic surgery than Joan and Melissa Rivers put together.

Sorry TLH, the only thing wrong with my posts is that they are true and unbiased. 

And I can't believe you used Envy. Maybe the worst movie I have ever seen.

Go Charles Haley to your team. You can think whatever you want, but the rest of the league hates the Cowboys because the fans, players and management are all a bunch of self-absorbed, delusional egomaniacs. I'm pretty sure what Charles Haley did is factual, too, given that there were witnesses.

Gene, why do you have to go start this again? Seriously? Go eat some sushi or something.

I still say that Jason Witten's ad is pretty lame.

Just a reminder dont forget to watch hard knocks tonight.

I don't post Suzy Kolber material because it is not funny, factual or worthy on this blog, Brian. Unfortunately, same is becoming true for your posts.

Irvin a "class Act" my lord that's like saying OJ didn't do it.  Class act...Now that is funny.  Pinch a few tears and everything is alright. 

Envy?  Yeah hardly.  You take yourself way too seriously.  Why shouldn't your division rivals hate your team?  As for my blog...no attack on the Cowboys or the organization,  in fact had it not been for your shortbus fan who took to his 12 yaer old attitude of calling someone names, you would likely have realized that my issue and beef was with Irvin and his HOF election...something that has nothing to do with one other member of the Dallas Cowboys.

I suppose the Cowgirl fans are still reeling from their Giant loss and jessica Simpson still hanging around...I guess i would be a little uptight as well.

Envious?  Please.  You make such an easy target.

Say, how come you haven't posted the Suzy Kolber article on Haley BTW? 

TLH,
Agree with Dave...and you...WE ARE THE ENVY OF THE NFL!  PERIOD!

AMEN BROTHER, AMEN.......I COULD'NT HAVE SAID IT BETTER. THERE IT IS BLOGGER BITCHES, COME EAT THAT FOR AWHILE