When did the Dallas Cowboys become America's team and who gave them this title?
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"After the '78 season, the Cowboys had just lost a\ncrushing Super Bowl to the Steelers. I wanted to come up\nwith a different twist on their team highlight film. I noticed\nthen, and had noticed earlier, that wherever the Cowboys\nplayed, you saw people in the stands with Cowboys\njerseys and hats and pennants. Plus, they were always the\nnational game on television. If you think back, there has\nalways been one team in each sport that has support from\nfans nationwide: the Yankees in baseball, Notre Dame in\ncollege football, the Boston Celtics in pro basketball. They\nare all America's teams. So I put that name on the Cowboys'\nfilm, and in 1979 the TV announcer for their first game\nintroduced the Cowboys as 'America's Team.'\nThey took a lot of heat for it, but it stuck. Later other clubs\nlike the Atlanta Braves and the U.S. Olympic hockey team\nhave tried to call themselves 'America's Team.' But that\nname belongs to the Cowboys."\n-Bob Ryan, Vice President and editor-in-chief, NFL Films\n\nAnd I agree. There are Dallas fans EVERYWHERE. I live in Tennessee, and I will always be a Cowboys fan. We don't need to even address the haters.
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On November 16, 1959, Boston executive William "Billy" Sullivan was awarded the eighth and final franchise of the developing AFL.  They were first called The Boston Patriots. Hope this helps you.
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The Dallas Cowboys. I've been a fan since the Staubach days and I tend to be just a little bit loyal with my teams, so that's probably not going to change :-)
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1952, even though back then they were called the Texans. Yes, like the present Houston team, they jacked the Cowboys original name.
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An All-America team is a sports team composed of star players. It is usually used in U.S. team sports to refer to players that are selected by members of the national media. The term is used primarily with regard to college and occasionally (and more controversially) high school players; professional players are usually referred to as all-stars, or, in the case of professional football, "All-Pros", who are usually selected by the fans to compete in Pro Bowls. Selection to such a team is primarily of an honorary nature; All-America teams, unlike some other all-star teams, are generally not assembled for the purpose of playing games as a unit. The original usage seems to have been to a list of players regarded as the best of that year at their respective positions in college football selected by football pioneer Walter Camp in the 1890s; the College Football All-America Team is still selected annually by his successors and continues to be one of the most prestigious.
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I have been a Cowboy fan for over 20 years.  Been a fan through the good years and the bad ones.  As long as they beat the Washington Deadskins, I am happy.
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Dallas finished the season 9-7 and did not make the playoffs. They finished in 3rd place in the NFC east behind the 11-5 NY Giants and the 10-6 Washington Redskins.\n\nWay to apply yourself in looking for this oh so hard to find info. Darn the NFL for keeping things so top secret
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The league was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, which adopted the name "National Football League" in 1922
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I absolutly love the cowboys. Your talking about the NFL team right? well if you are then they are the best. except its too bad that they lost to the broncos. huh?
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The National Football League (NFL) is the largest professional American football league, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities and regions. The league was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, which adopted the name "National Football League" in 1922. The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues of North America.\n\nPrior to the 1960s, the most popular version of American football was played collegiately. After the 1958 NFL Championship Game (which went into overtime), the NFL's greatest spurt in popularity came in the 1960s and 1970s with the merger of the rival American Football League, or AFL (1960-1969).\n\nCurrently, the league's 32 teams are divided into two conferences: the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). Each conference is then further divided into four divisions consisting of four teams each.
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As a team, the NBA champions are the best team in the world. But I do think it is egotistical for Americans to call them world champions. Go Dallas.
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49ers. 5 SBs in 13 years that is absolutely unheard of. The other 2 teams with 5 rings(steelers and cowboys) won their first SB's in the 70's. The niners didn't win their 1st till 1981 but won so many in such little time they beat steel city and the 'boys to 5
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Dallas vs Minnesota, December 28, 1975 , QB Roger Staubach threw a last second pass to Drew Pearson to win the playoff game.\n\nAfter the game Staubach was asked in an interview what he was thinking when he threw the game winning pass, he replied, "I just closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary".....and the NFL officially recognized term was coined.
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THE COWBOYS ARE GAY!            I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THE  WASHINGTON REDSKINS!
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Nevada has never had an professional team. Houston had a team in the USFL called the Gamblers.
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I don't waste my energy focusing on teams, like the Eagles, that suck. Instead I just watch the greatest football team in history kick ass and watch everybody else try to catch up. Dallas Cowboys are and forever will be America's Team. Oh by the way only morons celebrate when people get hurt during a game.
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1964. Jerry Jones owns the Cowboys. Ken Hatfield and Johnny Majors went on the successful coaching careers in college and Jimmy Johnson went on to great careers in both the college ranks and the NFL.