Jerry Jones’s new stadium is big and fancy, but it
doesn’t necessarily give the Cowboys much of a home-field advantage.
That’s the word from Hall of Fame former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman,
who says he doesn’t think Dallas fans are the type to loudly cheer their teams
but are more the type to go to sporting events as social occasions.
“I think for a large part – and the fans don’t want
to hear this – a lot of the people that attend sports in this
town, they’re there because it’s kind of just a place to be seen,” Aikman
said.
Aikman’s comments came after the Cowboys home game
lost against the Bears that featured thousands of fans from Chicago making the
trip to Dallas to support their team. Some of the Bears players said that it
felt like a home game in the stadium.
Dallas isn’t so much a sports town as it is a
winner’s town,” Aikman said. “And that’s not that unique. Most towns are like
that. There are very few towns like Chicago where you can go out there and go
4-12 and they’re stilling selling out stadiums. That’s pretty unique.”
“I don’t think Dallas has ever really had a great
home field advantage,” Aikman said. “What I’ve heard is that, ‘Wow, they really
lost home field advantage when they left Texas Stadium.’ Texas Stadium really
wasn’t that different. Having played playoff games in Texas Stadium, that
stadium was rocking, it was great. . . . But when we would play in
Philadelphia, New York and walk out of the tunnel, I would have to be yelling
at the top of my lungs for guys to hear me. And you get on the plane for the
flight home and your head would be pounding, you wouldn’t have a voice, and
that’s just the way that it was. There was no way you could go down there near
the goal line and use hard count in an opposing stadium. And yet in Texas
Stadium, teams did it all the time.”
That won’t be a popular opinion for Aikman to
express in Dallas. But that doesn’t make him wrong.
How do you feel about this, Should he have said it
or just left it to himself ?
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