NBC’s Sunday Night Football Play-By-Play broadcaster Mike Tirico joins Shan and Bobby to preview the Cowboys vs. Buccaneers game. He was asked if he thinks that the Cowboys are still ‘Americas Team’ after Jim Nance said last week that Dallas is no longer the biggest draw in the country.
Tirico is very apathetic towards the term ‘Americas Team’ and does not think that it’s anything worth putting energy towards. He does give the Cowboys credit for gaining their fan base with their Super Bowls and playoff appearances, but understands why some want to see teams who don’t have that same legacy take the big stage.
Tirico is very apathetic towards the term ‘Americas Team’ and does not think that it’s anything worth putting energy towards. He does give the Cowboys credit for gaining their fan base with their Super Bowls and playoff appearances, but understands why some want to see teams who don’t have that same legacy take the big stage.
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00:00What does Jim Nance the other day said, the winner of Bill's Lions, it's time for them
00:22to be America's team.
00:24How do you define America's team?
00:28I don't care, I don't, maybe it's getting, maybe it's getting too old or maybe it's watching
00:37too much of the noise on TV in the mornings.
00:40I've stopped, I've stopped investing any emotional energy in circular conversations that don't
00:48mean a damn thing.
00:50I'd rather talk about, I'd rather talk about offensive lines and all that stuff.
00:55The whole America's team thing was generations ago and we understand it.
01:00Cowboys have always had a great appeal across the country because of the five Superbowls,
01:08because of more playoff games than anyone.
01:10So it's just developed generations of Cowboy fans.
01:13You know that the team America likes at the moment, the Lions and bills are great to root
01:18for.
01:19So too would a Cleveland be, I know what Jimmy said.
01:22I love Jim.
01:23Jim's a friend.
01:24I love him.
01:25I know exactly what he's saying.
01:26Like the team that America is rooting for pulling for because they'd like to see, I
01:30think we all like to see teams that don't win, get a chance on that big stage and have
01:36their moments.
01:37Those are great stories.
01:39But like we don't walk around with a trophy saying who's America's team at the moment.
01:44So I, I invest zero energy into such conversations.
01:49Cowboys will always draw, they still do.
01:51And I'm sure a bunch of people watching Sunday night.