We're not ones to miss out on an opportunity to needle Cowboys fans on this site, but this time it wasn't us -- it was one of their own (and now we're going to pile on).
Okay, so Troy Aikman didn't exactly call Cowboys fans bandwagoners. He was talking about Dallas fans, the people who actually have a geographical reason to root for the Cowboys, not the actual bandwagon fans that you and I all know. Well... I guess it's really one in the same.
Anyway, right before he basically called Dallas fans a bunch of bandwagoners, Aikman was remarking how much more difficult a place to play Philadelphia or New York were compared to what a road team would go through at Cowboys Stadium. His explanation for why wasn't the building's acoustics, by the way -- It's a people problem.
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Dallas, you're just not very good sports fans. Via Deadspin from a sports radio interview transcribed by the Dallas Morning News:
"I don't think Dallas has ever really had a great home field advantage. What I've heard is that, 'Wow, they really lost home field advantage when they left Texas Stadium.' Texas Stadium really wasn't that different. Having played playoff games in Texas Stadium, that stadium was rocking, it was great. ... But when we would play in Philadelphia, New York and walk out of the tunnel, I would have to be yelling at the top of my lungs for guys to hear me. And you get on the plane for the flight home and your head would be pounding, you wouldn't have a voice, and that's just the way that it was. There was no way you could go down there near the goal line and use hard count in an opposing stadium. And yet in Texas Stadium, teams did it all the time."
Any theories as to why, Troy?
"I think for a large part – and the fans don't want to hear this – a lot of the people that attend sports in this town, they're there because it's kind of just a place to be seen. I didn't know anybody who went to Rangers games, and then when they started winning and going to World Series, everybody's wearing Rangers hats and saying, 'Oh yeah, I'm a big Rangers fan.' I've always said Dallas isn't so much a sports town as it is a winner's town."
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So to summarize: Cowboys fans in the Delaware Valley, you were always bandwagoners, but I guess it's okay now because apparently a lot of the folks who frequently attend games in Dallas are bandwagoners, too. You have more in common with them than we ever knew.
