So, when I moved to Texas and started to hear the Dallas Cowboys over and over again referred to as "America's Team" I figured it was just more Texas hyperbole.
At one point in time, years ago, I added a page about this subject to my Eyes on Texas website, titled "Dallas Cowboys: America's Team?"
This morning I was looking for an "America's Team" image and was surprised to see the webpage I made years ago Googled in the 2nd spot, right after Wikipedia's article about "America's Team."
I was looking for an "America's Team" image because I'd just read an article in the Seattle P-I which made me want to blog about this subject.
According to the Harris polling people and an interactive poll they conduct, yearly, the Dallas Cowboys are America's favorite football team. A position the Dallas Cowboys have held for 5 years in a row.
The top five favorite football teams are....
- Dallas
- Pittsburgh
- Green Bay
- New England
- Chicago
America's least favorite professional football team is the Jacksonville Jaguars.
I've never heard of this lowly Jaguar team. All I know about Jacksonville is I think the town is in Florida.
The Seattle P-I made what seemed to me a slightly lame explanation as to why the Seattle Seahawks are at such a lowly 27th place ranking in such a serious matter. Apparently fewer people on the West Coast follow football than people who live in the East, the Midwest and the South.
In 2006 the Seattle Seahawks reached their most favored position ever in the Harris poll, coming in as the 12th most favorite the year they lost the Super Bowl to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
That particular Super Bowl is probably the only football game I have watched, start to finish, in this century. It was painful viewing.
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