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Jerry Jones Will Rap For Pizza
A new Papa John’s commercial reveals that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is every bit as good at rapping as many fans think he is at being an NFL general manager. “It’s bad enough to make the Bears’...
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Jerry’s Secret? Cowboys Stadium Goes “PINK”
If you just happen to be an NFL team that’s as well known for its sexy cheerleaders and garishly appointed stadium as its performance on the field of late, well, then, this makes total sense: Monday,...
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Why the Cowboys Should Go Socialist
Editor’s Note: Another week, another Cowboys loss, and another round of fan unrest with Jerry Jones. This time, no doubt inspired by all of the secession talk in Texas, a desperate and disgruntled fan...
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In Praise of My Sports Town
Growing up in Dallas, I hated sports. I wore my disdain proudly, like a varsity letter jacket. I believed in arts and culture and binge drinking, and I had no time for the bloated gladiator spectacles...
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Kickoff: Eight Things to Know About This Blog
Longhorns and Aggies (and Cowboys and Texans) and Bears, oh my! Welcome to Texas Monthly’s football blog, helmed by me, Jason Cohen (there’s my Twitter handle, if you’d like to complain that your team...
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Houston And Cowboys Both Lose Because Of Interceptions, Twitter Freaks Out
It was a rough day for Texas football fans on Sunday. The last pass thrown by Tony Romo was an interception that set up a game-winning field goal for the Denver Broncos, and the first pass thrown by...
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Not Just Semi-Opinionated
Dan Jenkins is very likely the only person who started off writing for the afternoon newspapers in the forties and ended up as a maestro of Twitter. But although the Fort Worth legend’s longevity is...
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Small in the Saddle
Although Western novels started losing readers in the sixties, don’t blame the waning interest on Texas writers, who have since provided the flagging genre some of its best moments. Larry McMurtry’s...
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#JeSuisDez, Marinelli Moving on, and Other Notes From the Last Cowboys Game...
If you watch the replay one more time, especially the full shot of the entire play, you could be forgiven for losing your cool. With 4:42 left in the fourth quarter of the Cowboys’ divisional round...
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Cowboy Family Rescues Horses in Raging Flood, Proves Cowboys Still Exist
For anyone who believes the age of the cowboy is gone to Texas folklore, look no further than the Barrett family, who, on their way to Mother’s Day church service, stopped to rescue 31 horses and...
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So Long, Little Dogies
Their history was brief, but the trail drives live forever in the myths of the cowboy and the boundless West.Erwin E. Smith Collection, Library of Congress The importance of the trail drives, vast...
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Football Fan Advice From the Texanist
This article originally appeared in the September 2017 issue of Texas Monthly with the headline “Fan Advice From the Texanist.” Texanness and football fandom go together like tailgates and tailgating,...
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Let Us Now Praise Tony Romo, The Best NFL Color Commentator
Last night, the Green Bay Packers played the Chicago Bears on Thursday Night Football. The game was a clunker of a Thursday night matchup, which happens unfortunately often with NFL’s...
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Let’s Admit That the Packers Are the Cowboys’ Top Rival Now
It happened again. The Cowboys scored just after the two-minute warning in the fourth quarter against the Green Bay Packers, taking a late lead against the team after trailing. The team celebrated—but...
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Don Meredith’s Son on His Upcoming Documentary ‘First Cowboys’
On November 22, 1963, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy thrust Dallas into the national spotlight and gave the city a nickname that would take decades to shake. “It was the City of Hate...
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This is What Needs to Happen for the Cowboys to Make the Playoffs
By Thanksgiving, all hope seemed lost for the Cowboys. Dak Prescott looked like he might never throw a touchdown pass again. Dez Bryant played like he was heading toward retirement. The defense was...
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Congrats, Dez Bryant, the NFL Rules Committee Finally Admits #DezCaughtIt
Hi, Dallas Cowboys fans! What’s your most frustrating memory? Is it slamming your finger in the car door this morning? Being stuck for two hours in traffic on the Dallas North Tollway knowing that you...
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The Cowboys Cut Dez Bryant. Now What?
The current Cowboys roster was built by avoiding costly, splashy moves. The team’s current leadership has played unsentimental moneyball, parting ways with popular, but expensive, veterans whose best...
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Did The Cowboys Do Dez Bryant Dirty?
Last week, Cowboys Executive Vice President Stephen Jones told reporters that he didn’t know why the team’s former receiver Dez Bryant, who was released in mid-April, was still unsigned. Bryant, after...
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The Cowboys Need Earl Thomas Because Earl Thomas Loves Them So Much
Earl Thomas loves the Cowboys. And when we say he loves them, we’re talking about the kind of devotion that might spur someone to regularly don a giant foam cowboy hat or tattoo a star on his nether...
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Is Terrell Owens Serious About a Comeback?
In 2006’s Rocky Balboa, the iconic boxer—depicted by a then-60-year-old Sylvester Stallone—tells his confidante Paulie that he’s decided to step back in the ring. “There’s still some stuff in the...
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How the ‘Yeehaw Agenda’ Disrupted Texas Country Culture for Good
Last year, the Dallas-based pop culture archivist Bri Malandro declared—alongside a repost of King Kong magazine’s western-themed cover shoot featuring the singer Ciara—that “the yee haw agenda is in...
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How Hank the Cowdog Made John R. Erickson the King of the Canine Canon
Out on the range, rattlesnakes don’t bother John R. Erickson much. They’re a part of life on the M-Cross Ranch, Erickson’s home and working cattle operation, in the rough country of the northeastern...
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‘The Harder They Fall’ Is About to Bring New Excitement to the Old-school...
This week, Netflix released its first trailer for The Harder They Fall, a film with a to-be-announced premiere date that the streaming giant is trumpeting as a “new school Western.” Watching the...
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Dale Brisby’s Netflix Show Teaches Viewers How to Be Cowboys for the...
Dale Brisby’s Facebook bio describes him as a “legendary bull rider and Snapchatter”—a twenty-first-century duality of man if there ever was one. There’s some debate about the former: although Brisby...
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