Reply #25: I blame the media for the hate -- really

[Auggie]

IMO it started with all-American Navy hero Roger Staubach -- who came along just as TV realized what a money earner it had in pro football. And the media, as it will do, hyped him and Landry and the Cowboys ad nauseam until they built up an audience. It continued through Aikman and Smith and Johnson and persists in Romo and Jerry Jones and that billion dollar stadium. They did this at the expense of other teams who earned and deserved the recognition but didn't get it even when the Cowboys were playing flat. That tends to piss people off who follow other teams. To make matters worse, the media canonized all the cowboy/swagger/Texas big thinking cliches and then wrapped the American flag around it. If you're not on the Cowboys sideline it can be odious to observe.