The whole country is rolling with laughter. The richest club in the world turned out to be a meme again

This story has been repeating itself for a quarter of a century, but Americans still enjoy and entertain. Not only ordinary fans, but also journalists who do not hide their fan affiliations in the USA. Number 1 among Cowboys haters is definitely Stephen A. Smith of ESPN. He himself declares himself as a Pittsburgh Steelers fan and comments on each mishap by Cowboys with great love. Now he did not say no to himself, although he has been in isolation since December 21, having tested positive for COVID-19. The video he posted after the match has already been broadcast over 2.7 million on Twitter.

The favorite lost through bizarre mistakes

The journalist repeats the words he said throughout the season on ESPN’s flagship program – First Take that the Dallas Cowboys will not win even one play-off this season. And it was confirmed on Sunday. Cowboys, although they were a clear favorite and played on their own field, lost to San Francisco 49ers 17:23. In addition, they lost in bizarre circumstances. One that they lost a lot of yards by the record-breaking penalty for 14 offenses in the playoffs, and two that in the last seconds of the game they did not know how to behave in order to have one more chance to tip the tide in their favor.

“Oh my God, oh my God,” only CBS expert Tony Romo, a former Cowboys quarterback, kept repeating. “What a bizarre end to the match,” he added.

The quarterback Dak Prescott is entirely to blame for the failure of the last action, incidentally the richest player in the NFL. Before the new play, the quarterback Cowboys, instead of giving the ball to the referee, gave it back to the center to Tyler Woe, who wanted to resume the game as soon as possible. Only that the regulations say that the place where the next service starts is the judge. It is he who should place the ball on the playing field. Romo couldn’t believe that such a basic mistake happened to the Cowboys players. Had Prescott not made a mistake, the Dallas team would still have time to stop the clock and set a last-ditch action.

Cowboys blame the judges for their failure. One more bizarre situation

Of course, many Cowboys fans are convinced that the judges took their victory. After the game, they threw bottles and other garbage at them. By the way, the Cowboys players also got in.

Prescott and coach Mike McCarthy added oil to the fire, who also had a grudge against the judges. It wasn’t just about the last action. The former – according to media reports – was even supposed to praise the fans for throwing bottles at the judges.

But that’s just making excuses. It was just a bad match for America’s most popular team. Before the fourth quarter the team from Dallas was already losing 7:23 and it was only the spurt in the last part of the game that gave it an illusory chance to win. Illusory, because the chance that the last action of the match would bring the Cowboys success was minimal.

American schadenfreude festival after the failure of the Dallas Cowboys

The failure of the Cowboys caused a sudden rush of joy in America – except Texas, of course. Nothing in sport unites fans of different clubs as much as the defeat of a tycoon. On the twitter account of SportsCenter – the most popular television sports news in the US – you can admire a gallery of sad Cowboys fans.

And this is how the Cowboys’ defeat was adopted by Barstool Sprots, followed on Twitter by 3 million people.

The aforementioned Stephen A. Smith literally rolled with laughter in his program “First Take”, to which he returned after a break of several weeks.

Cowboys are the richest sports team in the world, although they have not won anything in 27 years

Cowboys – also called “America’s Team” since 1978 – is without a doubt the most popular team in the USA. He has fans not only in Texas but in every corner of the United States. Several factors contributed to the popularity of this team. First of all, the fact that she won it in the 1970s, when she played five times in the Super Bowl, and the NFL was becoming the most important television entertainment in the US.

But the strangest thing is that this popularity has remained, even though the team has not won the championship since 1995. Moreover, she rarely entered the playoffs, and even less often she managed to get through even one round. Paul Hembekides of ESPN has compared the achievements of the Cowboys in the last 25 years to the number of play-off victories by quarterbacks whose skills have been average at best.

Even Colin Kaepernick, who has been in the NFL for a short time, has more playoff wins than the entire big Dallas Cowboys club.

The television phenomenon of Dallas Cowboys matches

But with all this sports mischief, the Cowboys are breaking records in terms of viewership. Last year, out of the 10 most watched games of the regular season, as many as five were played by them. Two of them in the first two places.

A little digression here. In recent weeks, the movie “Don’t Look Up” with a star cast has made a huge sensation in the world. All over the world – according to Netflix – it was watched from the premiere to January 9 (the latest data) for 327.8 million hours. The five Cowboys matches I mention above were watched for approximately 440 million hours, and only in the USA. This gives an even more complete picture of the popularity of this band.

According to the business magazine “Forbes”, the Cowboys are worth a total of USD 6.5 billion, and according to the Sportico website – USD 6.97 billion. In this respect, it is the No. 1 club in the world. The richest football clubs – Barcelona and Real – are valued by Forbes at 4.75 billion.

And that only fuels the schadenfreude even more – joy over someone else’s misfortune – like the Americans do.

Stephen A. Smith’s ESPN Television calls Dallas the happiest man in the world after his defeat and cites his long tirade in which a journalist is simply furious that Prescott and McCarty cannot take the blame for the time. ¿Kę, and they are explained by bad judging. – This club is hañba!

– I am very disappointed. I am disappointed because of our fans. They deserved our victory and a promotion to the next round – said club owner Jerry Jones after the game, who, according to The Athletic, looked sick after the game. When asked when was the last time he was so disappointed after losing, Jones replied, “I don’t remember.”