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I'm from NOLA, so I'm not allowed to root for those guys, even as a bandwagon fan. Oh darn"For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Quoth mjr View Post"I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Quoth mjr View PostThat "joke" is kinda old.
How did YOUR NFL team do, by the way?
My local NFL team is the Redskins, but I have no idea how they are doing."I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Quoth EricKei View PostI'm from NOLA, so I'm not allowed to root for those guys, even as a bandwagon fan. Oh darn
Quoth Ironclad Alibi View PostMy local NFL team is the Redskins, but I have no idea how they are doing.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Quoth wolfie View PostI've heard the Cowboys referred to as "America's Team" - since NOLA is in America, you should be allowed to root for them.
Do you know why they're called "America's Team"?
Back in the late 60's and 1970's, some front-office guys noticed that everywhere around the country that they went, they saw Cowboys fans and Cowboys jerseys. Then there was a "marketing effort" where they were labeled "America's Team" based off of that. The head coach at the time (Legendary Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry) did NOT like the idea.
The NFL having cheerleaders on their teams is also thanks to the Cowboys. As is the little arrows next to the numbers pointing to the End Zones, and a number of other things. The Cowboys are such that people in sports media have (or had) a phrase: "When in doubt, give 'em the Cowboys".
The reason Dallas wears their white jerseys as their "home" jerseys (white is usually reserved for "away" games)? So that the fans of the Cowboys could see the "home" colors of the other teams, and not the same colors (dark blue & white) week after week.
The Cowboys also have approximately 6,576,378 colors on their uniforms...I kid, but they do have somewhere around eight.
From Wikipedia:
The Dallas Cowboys' white home jersey has royal blue (PMS 287 C) solid socks, numbers, lettering, and two stripes on the sleeves outlined in black. The home pants, according to the Dallas Cowboys official media guide, are a common metallic silver-green color (PMS 8280 C) that help bring out the blue in the uniform. The navy (PMS 289 C) road jerseys (nicknamed the "Stars and Stripes" jersey) have white lettering and numbers with navy pinstripes. A white/gray/white stripe are on each sleeve as well as the collared V-neck, and a Cowboys star logo is placed upon the stripes. A "Cowboys" chest crest is directly under the NFL shield. The away pants are a pearlish metallic-silver color (PMS 8180 C) and like the home pants, enhance the navy in the uniforms. The team uses a serifed font for the lettered player surnames on the jersey nameplates.
The team's helmets are also a unique silver with a tint of blue known as "Metallic Silver Blue" (PMS 8240 C) and have a blue/white/blue vertical stripe placed upon the center of the crown. The Cowboys also include a unique, if subtle, feature on the back of the helmet: a blue strip of Dymo tape with the player's name embossed, placed on the white portion of the stripe at the back of the helmet.
Another side tidbit: When Clint Murchison was ready to start the Cowboys in the late 1950's (their inaugural season was 1960), the vote to join the league had to be unanimous among the other owners. Murchison played chicken with George Marshall (owner of the Washington Redskins at the time) regarding the Redskins fight song "Hail to the Redskins", having purchased it from the Redskins' disgruntled band director.
And a rivalry was born.
More on that here.Last edited by mjr; 01-14-2017, 12:46 PM.Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.
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