Super Bowl LIX- The slippery slope to the Superdome

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The patriots donā€™t have anywhere like the universal appeal of the Cowboys and were a mediocre franchise for the most part until BB and the patriots way.

The giants have to contend with another franchise in their city.

The Cowboys due to their history and success in multiple decades have a huge following across the country due to being a prime time team. Like there are as many states if not more wothout an NFL team as there is with them - the cowboys gobbled up these fans

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Thereā€™s an excellent book called the Ten Gallon War (you can probably only ship it via the U.S. Amazon store) which details the war between the Cowboys and the Dallas Texans (now Kansas City Chiefs) in terms of the overall AFL vs. NFL conflict of the 1960s. Boys will be Boys will also give you a sense of it in the Jerry Jones era. Thereā€™s a few reasons;

  • Tex Schraum knew marketing and branding, they were the first to do cheerleaders. Dallas Stadium was iconic at the time with the roof. The star was also iconic
  • Roger Staubach was an American hero (he also played at Navy in the time the Army- Navy game was one of the biggest American sporting games) played the game in a unique way
  • Sustained success meant they were on tv all the time in the 60s and 70s which gave them an appeal in cities with no teams when colour tv was just starting. So the branding and timing was key- even if you moved into the 1990s they were also fortunate to get good again just as Fox launched and built their whole network around the NFL. ESPN was also growing quickly- that was the era of more wall to wall consumption but still less audience fragmation
  • they cornered the Texas market really, smartly moving training camp to San Antonio etc.
  • further to the above, the overall strength of college football in Texas meant it was deemed hard to set up new teams there. The old South Western Conference was full of Texas schools and brands. They played on Saturdays though. So whilst there was some brand saturation there was also an opening on Sundays- isnā€™t a clamour for somewhere like Austin to get a team because they already have the Longhorns but also because the Cowboys successfully planted their flag all over the States
  • they did things like be the first to broadcast games with Spanish announcers, cornering the Latino market
  • Jerry Jones continued that push for innovation - even something like AT&T Stadium was other worldly when built and every other franchise has been chasing them
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No Rams or Chargers :rofl:

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Raiders still covered like a local team in North California from my limited experience.

Understand the Rams but thought the Chargers might sneak in there

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The Raiders will always be an Oakland team.

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Whats the connection between the Bills and Wyoming?

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Josh Allen

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D Hop to the Chiefs

oh yeah GIF

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Would have been something 3-4 years back.

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https://twitter.com/pissvortex/status/1849139636645376425?t=6wUiiSXZvkPs6SlfvOwxrg&s=19

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106 seconds and the length of the field for the Vikings to pull this out

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Darnold gets facemasked and the refs donā€™t see it. Game over

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teams that have played the lions are 0-5 the following week.

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Fantastic performance from Matt Stafford, donā€™t think Iā€™ve seen as good a qb performance against this much touted Brian Flores defence since the last three times Jared Goff played against them

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Vikings looked in control going into second half.
. Thatā€™s a big win and slight upsetā€¦Kupp and Puka back are some weapons. Thought Puka would be on a snap count. I didnā€™t start him :rage:

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The Zebras ensured the Hollywood outfit got back in contention, some horrendous calls against the Vikings all game rounded off with a blatant facemask on Darnold for a safety.

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The facemask could be seen from outer space

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Il take ya brain to another dimension, pay close attention!

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https://archive.ph/VrQDX