Is this game ever going to start???

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by 12thMan

Hey, great segway into tonights game - New Orleans is now officially America's team. How did the Cowpokes get that name anyway??

some idiot in the media probably called them that once and it was all over after that.... tends to be how it goes down...

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by That Guy

some idiot in the media probably called them that once and it was all over after that.... tends to be how it goes down...

yeah that's pretty much how it went down:

"JAN. 1979
Dallas completes their 13rd consecutive winning season, and enters into their record 5th Super Bowl. AND Pittsburgh beats Dallas, 35-31, in Super Bowl XIII. After the 1978 season, Bob Ryan, NFL films editor, names the Cowboys "America's team"."

http://www.geocities.com/alcus2/cowboys.html