Posted on 09/08/2014 3:37:26 PM PDT by 11th_VA
ARLINGTON, Texas – The swaths of red, San Francisco 49ers red, spread and leached through the stands at AT&T Stadium. It was all over the end zones. It dominated the third deck and standing room areas. It even scattered through the most expensive club seat sections.
Red here. Red there. Red everywhere.
It didn't just speak to the traveling might and national appeal of the Niners. It wasn't just about the power of a Super Bowl contender that would cruise to a 28-17 victory that was far more lopsided than the score suggests.
It also said plenty about the willingness of Dallas Cowboys fans to unload their tickets, or never bother to buy them, for the opener of a season that seems to carry so little promise.
Fifty-percent red? Sixty-percent red? Whatever it was, the number was big, shockingly big for the first game of the season when seemingly every team has hope and the excitement of a live game and a full tailgate is in full swing.
Jerry Jones said he didn't notice.
"Did you count," he asked of the number of Niners fans in attendance?
He owns the Cowboys and owns the building so he was getting paid no matter what. There were 91,174 here, so it was a good day for business.
He's also the team's general manager, so from his luxury box where he entertains friends and business contacts, he says he's watching like an actual football executive and that requires tunnel vision.
"I just pay attention to the field," he said.
Maybe it affects his hearing because in the first quarter as the Niners kept taking Dallas turnovers and scoring touchdowns, the roars for the visiting team were, you'd think, impossible to ignore – 7-0 just 54 seconds in … 14-3 with 5:54 to go in the first quarter … 21-3 not 90 seconds later … 28-3 just before the half …
"I didn't have my eye on the crowd," Jones said. "I had my eye on those turnovers … I don't have any knowledge or information about red shirts or anything."
What Jones can't seem to see or hear or fathom – that this Cowboys season appears bleak and long and hopeless – his fan base has apparently come to accept.
It isn't unusual for customers to bail on a loser and save money for an autumn, but Dallas hadn't lost a game yet when the fans decided to stay home or go fishing or just not care.
Of course, their lack of faith was rewarded by the dreadful start that saw a fumble returned for a touchdown followed by three Tony Romo interceptions, each seemingly worse than the last, that killed any fleeting hope.
50 Most Valuable Sports Franchises - 2014
The Yankees are #4 at $2.5 billion, and the Cowboys are #5 at $2.3 billion. Here's the money quote:
The Yankees are the most valuable non-soccer team in the world with a worth of $2.5 billion.
The article doesn't specify what is included in a team's balance sheet when it assesses its value. Maybe they leave the stadiums out of the calculations for this list?
Who said anything about the capabilities of a single billionaire versus shareholders in handling $3.2 billion?
Not me. There is far more at issue than “handling” a large “amount of money.” You made an erroneous assumption about my point, jumped to a few erroneous conclusions, and then decided to be hateful, insulting, and manipulative because of your errors.
Sounds like butthurt syndrome to me. You know what to do. Grab a form, fill it out, and submit it.
You channeling Ray Rice today? Do please give me more of what I “deserve,” darlin’.
I believe the New York Yankees and Giants, at #4 and #10 on the Forbes list, respectively, are the only North American teams in the top ten that play in public venues. It's no surprise that New York teams are the most valuable franchises on their own, since they play in the largest consumer and media market in the U.S.
After the Yankees, the top four North American teams on that list are the Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Dodgers, New England Patriots and Washington Redskins ...
But taxpayers still paid for them. Idiots.
The Yankees are the most valuable non-soccer team in the world with a worth of $2.5 billion.
That was July. The Cowboys have surpassed the Yankees.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2014/08/20/the-nfls-most-valuable-teams/
For the eighth consecutive year the Dallas Cowboys, worth $3.2 billion, are the league’s most valuable team. The only sports team worth more is Real Madrid, valued at $3.4 billion,1. Real Madrid - $3.4 billion
P.T. Barnum was right.
Indeed. It’s pure insanity.
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