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.
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.
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.
Sam is happy after the last game because Jerry got it shoved up his ***
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
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.
Too harking hot in Tx to wear dark blue.
Why would a practice-squad player like Michael Sam have anything to do with this?
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.
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.
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.
Camel-nose-under-the-tent kinda thing
We’ll give you Dan Snyder to replace Jerry ...
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.
Isn’t that stadium indoors?
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...
My theory is that it was easier to clean the light at "home", not so easy to keep clean "on the road", hence the darker variant.
Probably started with baseball way back.
“Jerry Jones is supposedly a marketing genius, but I think he is an ahole.”
How about both being correct!
Jones made probably the biggest bonehead move in the history of the NFL. When Johnny Manziel dropped to nearly the free level in the draft, Jones had a chance to grab him. Instead he took some nobody. The fact is, Manziel is no where ready to be an NFL quarterback, but you could probably say as much about the current guy. And let’s face it, this team only gets to the Superbowl if somebody buys them tickets and they sit in the stands. Manziel would have at least created some excitement, and probably wouldn’t have lost any more games than the current bunch.
Realizing that the poor saps that pay to watch his half-a$$ed team will soon figure this out - the marketing genius takes over. He brings in the rope sucker, and that’s all anyone is talking about. He’s executed the perfect mis-direction play. Too bad they can’t execute any on the field.
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.
He needs to shut up sit down and let a GM and the coaches run things.
Micro managing arsehole.
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