Let’s Celebrate Michael Irvin, The Most Cowboys Player Of All Time

[Scurrilous]

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"The Dallas Cowboys from the 1990s were supremely polarizing to anyone growing up in that time. The America’s Team thing put off some people, anyone who hated the Cowboys to begin with hated them even more, and everyone else seemed spellbound by the cast of characters and the fact that they were just so dang good.

Nowhere in those days save for maybe “The U” Miami teams had this much energy – good and bad – in one place self-sustaining for a number of years. And the only way that can work in the first place is if the team has so much talent (and knows it) that hubris isn’t even an issue.

Just imagine what it would’ve been like had social media and the news cycle as it exists today been around. But then again, had those things been in place, the Cowboys wouldn’t have been allowed to be the Cowboys. Inevitably something would’ve mucked it up.

The Dallas Cowboys won three Super Bowls in four years likely because this was the only time in history when that group of players smashed together could win three Super Bowls in four years. And as I get older, I’m more and more thankful for that, even if I was one of those individuals who was preconditioned to hate the Cowboys when I was younger."

http://uproxx.com/sports/2015/03/michael-irvin-its-your-birthday/

[madinmaryland]

1. All I can say...

[trumad]

2. Miami Hurricanes helped make that team