The Frakking Cowboys?

Poll:

What is the most popular NFL team among the league's players?

The same one that's the most popular among its fans: the Dallas Cowboys.

The Cowboys came out on top in a Sports Illustrated poll asking players which team they would most like to play for. The poll of 296 players conducted in September did not allow them to vote for their own teams.  ...

A Harris poll released in October revealed the Cowboys were the fans' most popular team for the third consecutive year.

This is really quite distressing. Indeed, it shakes one's faith in the goodness of human nature. It's like learning that most Americans rooted for the Soviet hockey team in 1980. Or that the USC Trojans are the most popular college football team. 

Comments

[Christian Word]

This should not be terribly surprising (or distressing) since, last I heard, more NFL players hail from Texas than from any other state.

[roger Byrne]

Pforff. Bainbridge,
Just look at sales of Yankee hats....I have been a Yankee fan since the late 60's whaen they were awfull and I used to be a cowboys fan since the early70's but I left being a Cowboy fan When they treated Landray so badly. I went to a Boston Yankee game in the early 90's( The Stumep Merril years) with my Yankee hat on and a boston fan said to me "How can you root for them they are terrible?" Ireplied "If the Red Sox were bad would you still root for the?" He said "You're right and left me alone....

[Allan]

I believe that the players would like most to play for the Cowboys for a combination of two reasons:

1. They like the team. Although there are a lot of other teams they probably like.
2. The stadium. By all accounts, it is the best in the world.

This is sort of like asking law students where they would like to go to law school, if they had an unlimited choice. Harvard would probably rank at the top, to the chagrin of Yale.

As for college football teams, if my son's elementary school is any indication, it is the University of Texas as top choice (we live no-where near Texas, let alone Austin).

[Mike]

Obviously the dementia caused by concussions is not limited only to retired players.

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/concussions_promote_dementia_in_retired_football_players_9059