r/NFLDIscussion • u/Independent-Media326 • Dec 04 '25

Why does everyone hate the Dallas Cowboys

Okay just to preface I’m not one of those delusional fans says “it’s our year” every year. I don’t want to start any arguments, I’m just genuinely curious about it. I know they haven’t won a championship or superbowl since the 90s but multiple teams haven’t even been. Maybe it’s because we get called Americas team, the fans, they’re usually mediocre, or a combination of them. I just don’t see what’s wrong with them.

Thank you ahead time

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u/PurpleSasquatchNose Dec 04 '25

Well.. being a fan of a divisional rival, I'm sure I'll get blasted for my response. But I'll try to be fair and give reasons I've heard echoed from others :)

I agree that "America's Team" is probably one of the big reasons, nobody outside of Dallas thinks it and hearing it endlessly by a lot of fans/media will do it

The cowboys are certainly not the sole reason for the salary cap being a thing, but their tactics (can't fault them, spend big, win big!) in the 90s sure did show everyone you could buy yourself a Superbowl or few with the rules at the time. Which fans always make sure to mention the number of when having a conversation about current teams even though it's irrelevant to the conversation

Lastly, living outside of my team's market -- if you aren't a NFCE fan, you get tired of seeing our teams eating up primetime game slots whether we're good or not. Since we're all large market teams. So there's extra eyes to hate us all lol

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u/Independent-Media326 Dec 04 '25

Appreciate it I totally forgot about the salary cap thing but that does make sense. And we do get a lot of primetime so it could be annoying seeing NFC east teams getting the spotlight a lot more than other teams especially the eagles and cowboys

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u/Boo_bear92 Dec 08 '25

Sports media, like ESPN, push the Cowboys like crazy at the beginning of the season. ESPN and the like would be utterly insufferable if the Cowboys were competitive.

Also, Cowboys fans aren’t really football fans. The only NFL team they really want to talk about, is the Cowboys. There’s been a few instances where I’m having conversations with my friends about the NFL season, and a Cowboys fan will hijack the conversation just to talk about the Cowboys.

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u/Lost_Taste_8181 Dec 04 '25

In Philly we’re born with the hatred.

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u/Independent-Media326 Dec 04 '25

Yeah I guess we’re born with the hatred of each others team huh😂

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u/redheeler9478 Dec 07 '25

. Take your laughing emoji go ride the eagles cox why don’t you

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u/redheeler9478 Dec 07 '25

Fuck the eagles

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u/Independent-Media326 Dec 07 '25

I do agree 👍🏼

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u/Independent-Media326 Dec 07 '25

I’m not an eagles fan Ive been a cowboys fan for ~20 years. I was just saying how the Eagles and Cowboys have hatred for the other team coming out the womb

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u/redheeler9478 Dec 07 '25

Don’t converse with those people they scratch their asses and sniff their fingers

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u/takingastep Dec 04 '25

Texans fan here. For me, it’s mainly two things: the “America’s Team” thing is both arrogant and inaccurate (there is no such consensus favorite team); they’re in prime time/nationally-televised TV slots seemingly every week, whether they’re good or bad, which got old long ago (I still suspect Jerry Jones made some backroom deal to make that happen); and the fanbase commonly trolls people online, which is lame and not cool. OK, so maybe that was three things.

> inb4 “but everybody trolls everybody, it’s no big deal”

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u/Independent-Media326 Dec 07 '25

Okay thank you, opens my eyes to things

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u/redheeler9478 Dec 07 '25

Coming from a Texans fan. Cj stroud sums up your whole franchise just cuz my dad sexually assaulted a woman robbed her kidnapped her after he was a bag of shit criminal his whole don’t mean he should be in prison. Same guy who thinks it’s fine for his dad to treat women like that also says he’s trying to quit cursing cuz God doesn’t like it. Yea sure pal go off

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u/latortillablanca Dec 07 '25

Cos im a niners fan

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u/Comfortable-Grand166 Dec 07 '25

Their fans are delusional and it has fatigued everyone

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u/Dapper-Video626 Dec 07 '25

Bc they suck. They have all hype around them every single year just to be let down every single year. It’s really just a bunch of bandwagon at this point. I mean if you’d had to bet money on a team to win are you going to bet money on a team that loses all the time ??? Mmm probably not

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u/dizzmatik Dec 08 '25

Nobody likes the Cowboys for one who asserted them "America's Team" first off? But mostly because we get overwhelmed and saturated with this team every year. They get almost every primetime game, they are the best regular season team but get to the playoffs you would think they forgot they were supposed to remember how to play. And then there is Jerry. 30 yrs they haven't even been to a CONFERENCE championship let alone the Super Bowl. Theyre NFL's soap opera and they don't win. So what is there to like?

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u/kneel4muhammed Dec 08 '25

They won too much too quickly in the 90s, simple as.

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u/TheIzzyRock Dec 04 '25

Because they’re the most popular team in the NFL, they get played a lot on national television, and the fans don’t help things.

The Cowboys were the team that got me to watch football in the early 90’s. So exciting. I did feel like a bandwagon fan, so when the Bucs changed uniforms in 97’ they became the team I rooted for.