Dallas Cowboys were dubbed “America’s Team” in the late 1970s because they were arguably the NFL’s most visible team on television.
Although the team lived up to this moniker, winning three Super Bowls from 1992 to 1995 and making three trips to the NFC Championship Game in the 1980s, it has been a long time since Dallas gave fans anything to cheer about.
For this reason, ESPN’s Courtney Cronin recently said on “First Take” that the Cowboys should no longer be allowed to call themselves “America’s Team,” and that title truly belongs to another team.
Definitely not, and ever since they lost the last Super Bowl, they haven’t represented America as a team, Cronin said. “You are aware of who ‘America’s team’ is? The Kansas City Chiefs.
In an era that has been defined by often-forced parity, you’ve got a dynasty. We don’t have dynasties in the NFL all that often anymore.
The Cowboys were that back in the ’90s, back when I was a toddler not even watching the NFL yet. We saw it before the Kansas City Chiefs with the New England Patriots. And we haven’t seen it since.”
To Cronin’s point, the Chiefs have had a Cowboys-like run since Patrick Mahomes took over as the team’s starting quarterback in 2018.
In that time, the Chiefs have played in six straight AFC Championship Games, winning four of them, and they’ve played in four of the last five Super Bowls, winning three of them.
Kansas City also has a chance to be the first team in NFL history to three-peat as Super Bowl champions in 2024.
The greatest play of all time from a player like Patrick Mahomes, along with the inclusion of Travis Kelce, is what defines “America’s Team” because of their winning consistency and capacity to succeed even with a rotating roster of players, according to Cronin.
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