America's Team

SkinsLaVa® · Post by **SkinsLaVa®** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 7:39 pm

If you're Amurca's team, u better start acting like it.

welch · Post by **welch** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:44 am

The Cowboys are, indeed, "Texas's Team". And Texas is big and empty enough that perhaps Texans don't get away much. I know...it gets hot. They scurry from the centrally-airconditioned house to the car, turn on the airconditioner, and drive to the airconditioned shopping mall, and back. In the mall parking lot, they run from their car to a mall entrance.

OK, it's a flat, ugly, empty, brutal-looking place. Why would anybody want to fight the Mexicans for it? I don't know.

Maybe we're dealing with post-ers who have a believe that the rest of the country is a myth, a story.

Sure, Austin is a fine place, where a great synthesis of musics happened. Texans are generally nice, although maybe a little belligerant and paranoid. My son, PFC Welch, says he is astonished at how many Texans quiver as they point to their guns and say, "Those Arab terrorists are coming to get us!". Gee, Dan says, they blew up buildings in New York and Washington...they probably can't spell "Texas". What are these people so frightened about?

Maybe Texans are sensitive about their cities...Dallas is kind of a smog-blob...driving north on I35 is like approaching Mordor: see the haze? We're getting closer.

So, Redskin fans, I suggest we go easy in the Dallas-ians. They have "issues", and perhaps we shouldn't torment them.

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Oh, regarding wiley George: he had an answer for Gentleman Tom Landry: he said, "Diron, grind Staubach's face in the dirt".

tcwest10 · Post by **tcwest10** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:04 am

Oh, Welch. ROTFALMAO

I had no idea you were capable of such Smack.
You can pile on a little more newfound respect from me. I already had plenty for you.

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:19 am

I think they need a new nickname. I suggest "Steve."

tcwest10 · Post by **tcwest10** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:24 am

I was thinking, "Norman". It sounds good in a bar, if you shorten it some.

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:27 am

Perhaps we can compromise. How about a combination of the two, like Nervan.

tcwest10 · Post by **tcwest10** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:31 am

Sounds suspiciously like our coach from a few years back.
How's about "Cliff" ?

Primetime42 · Post by **Primetime42** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:39 pm

I recommend we move this to Smack before we go any further... :evil:

DallasCowboysFan · Post by **DallasCowboysFan** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 2:46 pm

cvillehog wrote:I can see why the Cowboys would be called "America's Team." I mean, it is the most valuable franchise in all of professional sports...

Oh, wait. No it isn't. The most valuable franchise in all of professional sports is based in D.C. and is owned by a Mr. Daniel Snyder.

Hmmmmm, only since he got the new stadium..........

Our new one is in the making, better tell Danny boy to get his check book ready!

Primetime42 · Post by **Primetime42** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:03 pm

DallasCowboysFan wrote:
cvillehog wrote:I can see why the Cowboys would be called "America's Team." I mean, it is the most valuable franchise in all of professional sports...

Oh, wait. No it isn't. The most valuable franchise in all of professional sports is based in D.C. and is owned by a Mr. Daniel Snyder.

Hmmmmm, only since he got the new stadium..........

Our new one is in the making, better tell Danny boy to get his check book ready!

Don't worry, when the new stadium is completed, we will be on top of the Redskins in all facets again, just the way it should be.

DallasCowboysFan · Post by **DallasCowboysFan** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:20 pm

welch wrote:The Cowboys are, indeed, "Texas's Team". And Texas is big and empty enough that perhaps Texans don't get away much. I know...it gets hot. They scurry from the centrally-airconditioned house to the car, turn on the airconditioner, and drive to the airconditioned shopping mall, and back. In the mall parking lot, they run from their car to a mall entrance.

Let's see I am guessing you have never been to Texas......

We are used to 100 degree days but right now it's a lovely 70 degrees with the sun out! I have never run from place to place to escape the heat, that's how you pass out. That is how we point out Yankee's in Texas, running from place to place to turn the air on! We Texans can handle it and don't mind it!

welch wrote:OK, it's a flat, ugly, empty, brutal-looking place. Why would anybody want to fight the Mexicans for it? I don't know.

Maybe if you did a little research you would know that the highest point in NY is Mt Marcy at 5,344 Feet and the highest point in Texas is Guadalupe Pk at 8,749 Feet! Here is a kids almanac you can look at!

Yep, looks pretty flat to me

Maybe it's our clean rivers and lakes, or our scenic hill country, our wildlife, our forests and our ocean. I couldn't imagine some person from NY to know what any of that is, maybe if I put some bright neon on it and put a ton of cabs around it you would like it, maybe a couple thousand homeless people peeing on the streets, maybe rivers full of trash with barges full of more going up and down the river is what you like? I for one know first hand what 183 Texans fought for down in San Antonio!

welch wrote:Maybe we're dealing with post-ers who have a believe that the rest of the country is a myth, a story.

Sure, Austin is a fine place, where a great synthesis of musics happened. Texans are generally nice, although maybe a little belligerant and paranoid. My son, PFC Welch, says he is astonished at how many Texans quiver as they point to their guns and say, "Those Arab terrorists are coming to get us!". Gee, Dan says, they blew up buildings in New York and Washington...they probably can't spell "Texas". What are these people so frightened about?

It's not a belief that the rest of the country is a myth, just the rest of the country with ignorant yankee's that have no earthly idea what they are talking about! Maybe you should do a little Texas History research before you speak, better yet, read this post because ya'll our just full of Anti-Texas today!

welch wrote:Maybe Texans are sensitive about their cities...Dallas is kind of a smog-blob...driving north on I35 is like approaching Mordor: see the haze? We're getting closer.

So, Redskin fans, I suggest we go easy in the Dallas-ians. They have "issues", and perhaps we shouldn't torment them.

Wow, you live in New York and have the gall to say Dallas is a Smog Blob? Have you been outside lately? I lived in Connecticut for a few years and would take the train to NY all the time, you have no clue what you are talking about!

Smithian · Post by **Smithian** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:04 pm

I live in Arkansas; I hate all things Texas. Including that disgusting Longhon college of theirs.

DallasCowboysFan · Post by **DallasCowboysFan** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:05 pm

Of course you do, you live in Arkansas......

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:26 pm

DallasCowboysFan wrote:Maybe it's our clean rivers and lakes

That's Texanspeak for creeks and ponds.

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:26 pm

tcwest10 wrote:Sounds suspiciously like our coach from a few years back.
How's about "Cliff" ?

Ooh, I know. We can call them Robin.

Post by **admin** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:29 pm

This thread has absolutely nothing to do with the Washington Redskins... so I'm moving it.

DallasCowboysFan · Post by **DallasCowboysFan** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 6:16 pm

General Failure wrote:
tcwest10 wrote:Sounds suspiciously like our coach from a few years back.
How's about "Cliff" ?

Ooh, I know. We can call them Robin.

Why not Earl?

Primetime42 · Post by **Primetime42** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 8:31 pm

Josh, did you forget where I'm from? :oops:

And I LOVE Texas!!!

General Failure · Post by **General Failure** » Sat Jan 01, 2005 11:26 pm

DallasCowboysFan wrote:
General Failure wrote:
tcwest10 wrote:Sounds suspiciously like our coach from a few years back.
How's about "Cliff" ?

Ooh, I know. We can call them Robin.

Why not Earl?

That won't work, there was no character with that name on Cheers.

DallasCowboysFan · Post by **DallasCowboysFan** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 12:55 am

Primetime42 wrote:Josh, did you forget where I'm from?

And I LOVE Texas!!!

Yeah, one bad apple usually gets me all fired up.......

I have met some nice Yankee's though..... :oops:

welch · Post by **welch** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:08 am

A few clarifications:

1. The problem is that he thinks he's a big man because he comes from a big state. (Sorry, that was a crack about Walt Whitman, but it fits).

2. Yankees: A yankee is someone native to Vermont, New Hamopshire, Vermont, and aya, part of Massachusetts. A New York Yankee plays for a baseball team in the Bronx, one followed by most New Yorkers. (For truth in reporting, there are a few Metsies somewhere). Some fans on Hogs Net cheer the Yankees baseball team, but few of us count as yankees. Some are Redsox fans, many were Balitimore fans. Hardly any real yankees, aya (I'm from Virginia, one one side going back to 1640's, on the Shenandoah Valley side probably only to the 1750's).

3. I have been to Texas, if Dallas, Temple, Killeen, Round Rock, and Austin count as Texas. As we drove up and down I-35, I honestly thought about the Alamo, and wondered why people chose to settle in Texas and fight for the land. Why not go someplace like Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, or Nebraska...or take the whole plunge, and go to Orgeon? There weren't trees as I know them, just scrubby short things. The only lake we saw as a man-made lake in Bell County, maybe called Lake Beltran. The only river was about three feet wide and an inch deep, running through Austin. I knew it was a river beccause there were so many signs saying, "Hey, look at our river" and "this is a river, y'all".

I invite our parched Texans to visit New York State. Camp on an island in Lake George. For grins, go tubing in a "creek", the Esopus Creek at Phoenicia. It's easy to find: just head yp the NY State Throughway to Kingston, tun west at Rte 28, and look for Phoenicia about 20 miles later. Experienced tubers take a sixback of cans with them, tied to the truck tube.

(Incidentally, you will pass Woodstock on Rte 28...the concert did not happen there.)

4. That slogan: Don't mess with Texas. A belligeranrt paranoic's slogan. It's on all variety of tee shirts. Always reminds me of the slogan, "Don't mess with Argentina", the motto of the losing side in ther Falklands Islands War. But who ever wanted to mess with Argentina? Who cared?

Other states have welcoming slogans:

- Virgina is for lovers

- Maryland is for crabs

- I love New York (with music)

- The spirit of Massachussetts is the spirit of America / the home of the red, white and blue

etc.

Hey, Texas...make me want to visit; otherwise, you are a long way out of the way.

Maybe, and this is a wild guess, the slogan orginally meant "clean up your trash", or "please don't litter", which are fairly clear. Maybe this thing got out of hand, got taken over by the paranoid crowd. Take it back.

5. The fear of a terroist attack. Everything else is just humpty-dumpty, but this one gets annoying. There are lots of pawn shops near Killeen, and they mainly advertise guns. OK, hunting is a fine way to get away from the women part of the family, and to sit around cabins drinking whiskey. No problem. Just don't tell me that some bozo in Texas is under threat himself, or is standing ready to protect us whimpy New Yorkers from Ahmed's Martyr Brigade. "They're coming to get me!"...no, they aren't.

And we've done just fine with the '93 and 2001 bombings. I was back at work the day they opened the Lincoln Tunnell. We all agreed that the only way to win is to go on working...no change.

Washington did the same thing with the Pentagon.

6. Oh, the smog in Dallas? Worse than NY. I drove north, dry and clear, but suddenly there was this pink/gray smear. Hurrah, Dallas. Compare the size, and imagine a Dallas the size of NYC. Maybe I'm lucky, but a third of the time I have a clear view up to Westchester and down, over the WTC, to Staten Islan, and sometimes even to Sandy Hook. We get a nice breeze down the Hudson from Ontario, and all the schmutz blows out to sea.

7. If there realy is an America's Team it is probably the NY Yankees. They are the second most popular team in Colorado...probably second most popular in the whole country.
Most valuable world sports franchise? Manhester United, followed closely by the Yanks.

Primetime42 · Post by **Primetime42** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:51 pm

Welch, you took too long. The crickets were chirping :roll:

Texas Hog · Post by **Texas Hog** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:19 am

Welch....it's ok to bash the pukes and the whole America's team thing, but can't you leave my beloved state out of this?

welch · Post by **welch** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:05 pm

but can't you leave my beloved state out of this?

TexasHog, if it's your state, then I'll stop teasing!

Texas Hog · Post by **Texas Hog** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:27 pm

thanks Bro