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Originally Posted by ChiliConCarnage
Its shortened from South Americas team. They are huge in Caracas.
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I thought "South America's Team" was started when Michael Irvin was singlehandedly boosting the entire GDP of Colombia.
The "America's Team" (in my opinion) came a lot from Roger Staubach being such a Boy Scout personality who had been at the Naval Academy and the Navy. Then you combined him with good ol' southern boys like Bob Lilly and Lee Roy Jordan in an era not long after the rural glamorization of TV (Beverly Hillbillies, Andy Griffith, etc.), and you had a team that seemed quintessentially American.
Also, the star and uniform were clean and crisp, the Cowboys name was American compared to some of their conference competitors, and they wore white when some of their key competitors wore black (Steelers, Raiders, etc.)