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So tell me Dallas Fans, does Michael Sam have anything to do with this?
1 posted on 09/08/2014 3:37:26 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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Jerry Jones is supposedly a marketing genius, but I think he is an ahole.

Stop worrying about Micheal Sams and let you coaches run the organization.


2 posted on 09/08/2014 3:40:56 PM PDT by mylife
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Here’s one thing that has always bothered me: Why don’t the Cowboys play in their dark blue uniforms at home? I hardly see them in their blue uniforms, only the white ones.


3 posted on 09/08/2014 3:41:23 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Sam is happy after the last game because Jerry got it shoved up his ***


4 posted on 09/08/2014 3:42:08 PM PDT by mylife
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If he does, my bet is that those In power who stand to lose big from this kind of loss, are well compensated by the dual income no kids for life loaded gay militia


5 posted on 09/08/2014 3:42:16 PM PDT by stanne
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As soon as Joe Buck started the Michael Sam hoo ya talk yesterday on the game and showed his stinking face, I changed the channel and NEVER went back to the stinking game. They show the homo and start that crap, I am gone. Simple as that.


6 posted on 09/08/2014 3:42:41 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (MARANATHA, MARANATHA, Come quickly LORD Jesus!!! Father send thy Son!! Its Time!)
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Why would a practice-squad player like Michael Sam have anything to do with this?


8 posted on 09/08/2014 3:43:04 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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I know Sam the ram made me turn against the Cowboys.
Other former die hard fans I know are also disgusted.
That’s just anecdotal of course, but the media would never admit it anyway.


9 posted on 09/08/2014 3:43:37 PM PDT by Clump ( the tree of liberty is withering like a stricken fig tree)
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I say put Michael Sam in as a first string player. Let him show the world his lack of talent and then maybe, maybe, people will shut up.


10 posted on 09/08/2014 3:43:59 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie ("Demons run when a good man goes to war.")
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It could be a factor, but overall, we’re pretty tired of the way JJ runs the team. At this rate, we won’t see another Superbowl this decade or maybe next. JJ needs to let someone else manage or he needs to sell the team.


11 posted on 09/08/2014 3:44:21 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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Many fans were extremely upset with Jerry Jones for his firing of Tom Landry and the manner in which it was handled. Three Super Bowl titles later, that ill will was mitigated somewhat.

Based on the comments of those at my church after services last night, the hiring of Michael Sam is a bridge too far. One of the deacons, a lifelong Cowboy fan, removed the Cowboy window sticker from his car and vowed to never watch another game until the sodomite is fired. A quick survey that I did of the members revealed that 100% of those I asked were glad that the Cowboys lost. Of course, While none categorically stated that God punished the Cowboys with the humiliating loss, the hope is that they go 0-16 as long as Sam is on the roster.

14 posted on 09/08/2014 3:46:27 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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I’ve been a Cowboys fan ever since I could walk, and I didn’t even watch it. I’ve just lost interest in football over the past few years.

Had nothing to do with them hiring an ass pirate for their practice team. I couldn’t care less about that...


16 posted on 09/08/2014 3:50:21 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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LOL!

I don’t know why that question of yours struck me as funny. Probably because the answer is “yes”, because it is likely the final straw of a convergence of straws. Tony Romo is one straw. The criminal element that composes the team is another and the longest running last straw is JERRY JONES, himself.

Blech. The Dallas Cowboys are incongruent with the term, “Cowboys”, giving the real cowboys a very bad name.


19 posted on 09/08/2014 3:52:20 PM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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Not a Dallas fan but no. Sam had no association with the team when season tickets went on sale. With their last SB win 20 years in the rear view mirror, and 2 whole playoff wins since, coming off 3 8-8 seasons in a row even the mighty Cowboys marketing machine is going to have problems selling tickets.


21 posted on 09/08/2014 3:53:04 PM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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Jones needs to look across town at The Ballpark at Arlington.

Last year, the Rangers went to the World Series. They dumped many of their good players ‘to reorganize’. This year they are the bottom team in both the American and National leagues.

Watch their next home game and count the EMPTY seats and entire sections of empty seats.

Fans may not matter much with all the big money in TV rights, etc., but if those home seats go empty too long, those TV moneys shrink also. No major network wants to play an evening game if one or both teams are losing their season.


23 posted on 09/08/2014 3:56:50 PM PDT by TomGuy
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Lots of San Francisco fans at that game means that lots of Cowboy fans dumped their tickets. Some may have done so in response to the Michael Sam signing.


28 posted on 09/08/2014 4:01:12 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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No, it’s not Sam. He’s irrelevant, a footnote.

It’s Jerry, and has been for years.


33 posted on 09/08/2014 4:04:57 PM PDT by Jedidah
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I'd say overpriced tickets and a mediocre (at best) team are a bigger factor, based on my own experience.

The New York Giants used to have a waiting list for season tickets that stretched out for decades (not just years). Fans would put their children's names on the list in the hopes that they might get to the top of the list by the time they were adults.

That's all gone now. Once they built the new stadium in the Meadowlands and forced their fans to pay thousands of dollars for "personal seat licenses" in order to buy tickets, the waiting list disappeared. You can now buy single-game tickets for a Giants game -- something that was unheard-of in the old stadium since it opened in 1976, and prior to that in Yankee Stadium back to the late 1950s.

35 posted on 09/08/2014 4:07:05 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
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Jerry Jones absolutely has to have media attention. Signing Sam to the practice squad gives him that, without impacting the salary cap. Jerry's usual in season way of creating headlines is to give an already overpaid veteran a contract extension with a massive signing bonus.

Which is one reason why the Cowboys are over the cap every off season, and then have to give already overpaid veterans contract extensions with massive signing bonuses, but with a reduction in annual salary after the signing bonus, for an extended period of years, so that when the signing bonus is prorated over a period of years far longer than the guy is actually going to play, it frees up space under the current year's cap. Of course when the guy retires or gets cut all of the signing bonus that was prorated into future years hits the current year's salary cap, causing the Cowboys to be over the cap, and the whole process to repeat.

36 posted on 09/08/2014 4:07:11 PM PDT by Pilsner
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First of all, Arlington is a HORRIBLE place for a stadium, it’s in the middle between Dallas and Fort Worth, which means that it takes most people in the Metroplex at least an hour to get there, and that’s assuming the traffic is good.

Also, it costs an arm and a leg to park there, and there is no mass transit there.

Plus the huge TV over the field means you basically wind up watching the game on TV, which you could do if you just stayed home.


44 posted on 09/08/2014 4:19:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Nope. It’s because the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders are not that ‘hot’ anymore.


48 posted on 09/08/2014 4:23:43 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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