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Old 12-20-2010, 09:17 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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And if you don't see that this is a problem, you must be a Cowboy fan. There is no way a team from another city, regardless of sport, should be featured in front of a team from the home city (save championship games). That's small time.
It was me who mentioned that the Spurs season doesn't start until February. The thing with the "Spurs season doesn't start until February" is that sure we're playing and this year the Spurs are doing very well...but it's consistent. They were so/so last year (and for rabid Spurs fans horrid).

I think if the Cowboys were a consistently good team the Cowboys wouldn't get as much coverage as they do here. This year has been particularly turbulent, injuries, coaches coming in and out and a pretty big name as a draft pick. With the Cowboys only playing 15ish games a season and all the trouble they've had this season I see why they get the coverage. When I lived in northern Wisconsin (about an hour and a half away from Green Bay) it was Packers coverage all day everyday during football season.

If all that was happening with the Spurs it would be front page news every game. I hesitated to post it earlier, but we also have to remember that Spurs play 80 games a season. If the EN spent 80 days a year covering the Spurs win/loss of the front page that would be dumb. The Cowboys, while not "our team" do contribute quite a bit to our economy with training camp so coverage is warranted (at least during that time frame).
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Old 12-21-2010, 06:15 AM
 
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It was me who mentioned that the Spurs season doesn't start until February. The thing with the "Spurs season doesn't start until February" is that sure we're playing and this year the Spurs are doing very well...but it's consistent. They were so/so last year (and for rabid Spurs fans horrid).

Spurs season doesn’t start until February (4 months after NBA season started)
But Cowboys season starts 1 month before NFL preseason (Training camp) and 2 months before NFL season starts?

Am I the only one that sees something wrong with that?
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Old 12-21-2010, 07:00 AM
 
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Spurs season doesn’t start until February (4 months after NBA season started)
But Cowboys season starts 1 month before NFL preseason (Training camp) and 2 months before NFL season starts?

Am I the only one that sees something wrong with that?
Your missing the point. It's not about the Cowboys or Spurs, it's the sports. Football is king in the United States. It's not anyones opinion, it's a fact. All you need to do is look at TV ratings. It's all about money.

Our local news stations are very aware of this fact. People watch and follow football (all levels) over basketball and baseball combined. The ratings and advertising statistics prove that.
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Old 12-21-2010, 07:03 AM
 
Location: San Antonio
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It was me who mentioned that the Spurs season doesn't start until February. The thing with the "Spurs season doesn't start until February" is that sure we're playing and this year the Spurs are doing very well...but it's consistent.
So since the Spurs are playing their best basketball, with the best record in the NBA, and they're consistent, they don't deserve as much coverage as the worst Cowboys team in years? In their hometown?

I mean come on! That's crazy! This is, literally, the best team in the NBA right now, the best record the Spurs have EVER had at this point in the season, and you think the Cowboys should be getting more coverage because they suck?!?

Welcome to San Antonio, you fit in just fine. ugh!

I apologize if I sound rude, I just can't relate, it doesn't compute for me.
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Old 12-21-2010, 08:14 AM
 
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Wasn't it Jerry Jones himself who a few years ago said that 95% of San Antonians pull for the Cowboys? I happened to see some of the training camp on TV in August...it was like an MTV special with a 20-something woman interviewing/fawning over the athletes who looked like they were at Club Med.
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Old 12-21-2010, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX via San Antonio, TX
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So since the Spurs are playing their best basketball, with the best record in the NBA, and they're consistent, they don't deserve as much coverage as the worst Cowboys team in years? In their hometown?

I mean come on! That's crazy! This is, literally, the best team in the NBA right now, the best record the Spurs have EVER had at this point in the season, and you think the Cowboys should be getting more coverage because they suck?!?

Welcome to San Antonio, you fit in just fine. ugh!

I apologize if I sound rude, I just can't relate, it doesn't compute for me.

It's part of the small town market. I would love it, as a Spurs fan, if we talked about the Spurs 24/;7 since they are doing so wonderful this season. But we've talked about he this 100001 times. San Antonio is a small market. If the Lakers were off the wall crazy good like the Spurs are right now we wouldn't hear the end of it. But because we're in the small market no one cares. If it were Lakers, Celtics, Miami, even the Knicks, oh my gosh would it be the end of the world and if one of those teams didn't win the championship it would be a travesty. But because we're a small market not too many people jump on the bandwagon early. It goes, again, back to my February statement.
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Old 12-21-2010, 08:51 AM
 
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Your missing the point. It's not about the Cowboys or Spurs, it's the sports. Football is king in the United States. It's not anyones opinion, it's a fact. All you need to do is look at TV ratings. It's all about money.

It’s the other way, you are missing the point.
San Antonio TV stations should support San Antonio teams first.
If San Antonio only had one professional sports team and it was a men’s volleyball team…
I would say the exact same thing.

Why?
They live in our city, they represent our city, they do charitable work in our city, they eat in our restaurants, they pay taxes in our city, they are our neighbors, their kids go to school with our kids, etc, etc, etc, etc.

First San Antonio’s teams, second anybody else.
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Old 12-21-2010, 09:16 AM
 
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It’s the other way, you are missing the point.
San Antonio TV stations should support San Antonio teams first.
If San Antonio only had one professional sports team and it was a men’s volleyball team…
I would say the exact same thing.

Why?
They live in our city, they represent our city, they do charitable work in our city, they eat in our restaurants, they pay taxes in our city, they are our neighbors, their kids go to school with our kids, etc, etc, etc, etc.

First San Antonio’s teams, second anybody else.
I actually agree with you. But the fact remains that football is big business and that's where the money is. As they say, it is what it is.
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Old 12-21-2010, 09:35 AM
 
Location: NW
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The Spurs season really doesn't start until February. Everything up until then is just practice.
Agree 100%. The NBA is irrelevant until the playoffs. Football is at the peak time of the season.
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Old 12-21-2010, 09:35 AM
 
Location: San Antonio-Westover Hills
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I don't support either team. Thankfully.
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