The packers are NOT America's team just because you want them to be. And Wikipedia is a place where anyone can put info on.......true or not. Packers fans are everywhere? So are every other team in the NFL. But the Cowboys' remarkable playoff consistency during the Landry era helped justify them as "America's Team," while Schramm took care of the marketing side by making sure the Cowboys played in the marquee games such as on Thanksgiving Day and "Monday Night Football."
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Love them or hate them, the Cowboys are still the most polarizing franchise in the NFL. Even during the lean years of the late 1990s and early 2000s, the networks still craved the ratings generated by the Cowboys. That's why I laugh when people talk about how the Steelers or Packers should be in the running for "America's Team."
I don't think Art Rooney would've wanted that at all in Pittsburgh. He wanted the Steelers to be Pittsburgh's team. And that's exactly what happened. Green Bay and Pittsburgh fans will travel across the country to watch their teams. And when you talk to them in the parking lots, you find that most of them spent time living in those areas.
It's different with the Cowboys. You show up at a hotel in downtown Charlotte, N.C., and there are 400 Cowboys fans roaming the lobby. Maybe a handful of that group made the trip from Dallas. No team in the NFL casts a wider net than the Cowboys in terms of fans. And that's why the Cowboys remain the true "America's Team."
As far as the Packers are concerned, well they haven't done too much for many years.Certainly, the Packers wouldn't qualify as America's Team if you based the claim on pure numbers. Green Bay is the nation's 260th-largest city (population just under 101,000), and the Packers generate their base in the mid-sized state of Wisconsin. Intuitively, it's hard to imagine their fans outnumber those of the Dallas Cowboys or Pittsburgh Steelers.
It's also easy to understand why more fans across the country would identify with the Cowboys or Steelers. Green Bay is known as "Titletown" and the Packers have won an NFL-high 12 championships, but 11 of them came before the television-aided surge in pro football's popularity. Since the 1970 merger of the NFL and AFL, the Packers have one title: Super Bowl XXXI after the 1996 season.
Whether you like it or not, the cowboys are the most sought after team. The sell more than all the other teams. Period.
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