Why do they still call Dallas "Americas team? Most American football fans do not like them?

Question

I think Green Bay should be Americas team as they are owned by the city of Green Bay

Answer 1

Just wait until they start to win, then all the "fans" that did'n't even know how to spell Dallas will be jumping on the bandwagon.

Answer 2

Bob Ryan, the Vice President and editor-in-chief of NFL Films, coined this for the Cowboys in 1979. After preparing and editing the team’s 1978 season highlight film he had to come up with a title for the film. He was quoted as saying:

"After the '78 season, the Cowboys had just lost a crushing Super Bowl to the Steelers. 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."
Drawing upon this inspiration and that of other nationally followed sports teams, such as the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in college football and the Boston Celtics in pro basketball, which Ryan said "are all America’s teams," he decided to use America’s Team as the name of the highlight film.

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 introduced the Cowboys as America’s Team and the nickname stuck.

Dallas’ Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry also did not approve of the appellation. He felt that it would give opposing teams extra incentive to play harder. Eventually he gave in and actually came to like the name.

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.

Other claims to the name
Originally, the Pittsburgh Steelers were offered the title but the then owner Art Rooney dismissed the suggestion by someone who thought the Steelers were worthy of the title, 'America's Team,' before NFL Films gave it to the Cowboys. 'We didn't want that,' Rooney said. 'We're a Pittsburgh team. We feel strongly about that'[1]
The Atlanta Braves laid claim to the name due to their games being broadcast on cable television systems nationwide on WTBS. These broadcasts built a Braves fanbase in areas of the U.S. far removed from a Major League Baseball team.
The term is occasionally used by some fans to describe the Green Bay Packers.
The term is used by some fans to describe the Minnesota Twins.
The term is also used by fans of the Washington Redskins to refer to their team, because of their rivalry with the Cowboys.
The term was also applied to the New England Patriots by some fans after the Pats repeated a feat accomplished for the first time by the Dallas Cowboys several years earlier, namely winning three Super Bowl victories in a mere four years.
And in 2005, the name was briefly used as a term of endearment for the New Orleans Saints following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.
The term has also been conferred to the New York Yankees, Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics due to their large nationwide fanbases.
The Fabulous Sports Babe dubbed the Hartford Whalers America's Team on her ESPN radio show.
The Oakland Raiders are occasionally called by this name, but more often an equivalent term, Raider Nation, is used to expressed similar widespread fandom.
In 2004, ESPN christened the University of Utah's football team America's Team during their improbable run to an undefeated season and a BCS bowl game. The Utah Utes became the first non-BCS team to play in a BCS game.

Answer 3

The reason the Cowboys are America's team has nothing to do with winning. It has to do with the fact that you can go to any state in the union and see Cowboy's gear on the shelf. I don't see Packers gear everywhere. America loves a winner, true, but bandwagoners don't make a national team.

Answer 4

Bob Ryan, the Vice President and editor-in-chief of NFL Films, after preparing and editing the team’s 1978 season highlight film he had to come up with a title for the film. The title he chose for the film was "Americas Team" He is quoted as saying:

"After the '78 season, the Cowboys had just lost a crushing Super Bowl to the Steelers. 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."

Answer 5

Green Bay was also the first football team. The NFL grew out of meat-packing plants in GB that had an intense rugby league around 1900.

Answer 6

Sorry, but there is no America's Team. We have 32 teams and they're all in the US.

Answer 7

Why do we call bush the president, even though most of the people think he's an idiot? because its always been like that and people don't like changes made to old traditions. they're not ready for it.

Cheers!!!

Answer 8

I like dallas i dont know why they call it that but i love that team.
no effence but greenbay sucks i really dont like them and i grew up in that town!

Answer 9

Because they have Emmit Smith, the all time leading rusher dancing around like a fairy on Dancing with the Stars.

Answer 10

It's a name they gave themselves.