I really don’t think that Cowboy fans hate Eagles fans. We just stand and shake our heads at (some of) you. As you see from the subject line, I live, give or take, about 40 miles from you. So being in Eagles country as a Cowboys fan gets interesting once in a while. Earlier in the decade it was as rough as it gets. It’s easy to understand why the hatred is so one sided. I won’t rant why. The Cowboys have enjoyed success and fame whereas the Eagles have not. No, I think it’s a matter of geography. I have always found people in the west to be more, well, courteous than people in the northeast. They are diehard fans of their teams to be sure, and with certain exceptions, don’t get off on ragging on a rival unless provoked. For me personally, I avoid the city of Philthydelphia like the plague. I have found it to be a dirty, crime riddled city with delusions of grandeur. I will never forgive the mogrels who cheered while Michael Irvin laid injured the field. That, to me, was a prime example of how to be the worst fans in any sport.

I don’t feel like the Redskins or the Giants “hate” us. I think they really don’t like us. I feel like the Eagles fans genuinely hate us… and for that reason I hate them too.

1) Buddy Ryan and the Bounty Bowl
2) The totally classless response to Irvin’s neck injury
3) The cocky attitude of the fans for a team that has not won a league championship since before facemasks were invented.
4)Hmmm…I guess that’s all I can think of at the moment. I’m a laid back person and don’t really “hate” anybody, more like extreme dislike.

BTW (And I might be wrong here) I get the feeling, from the BGN blog and what you mentioned, that people from the Philly area hate Dallas fans partly because of the locals that root for Dallas. This doesn’t make sense to me. I mean you can’t help who you root for, and just because you live near a certain team doesn’t mean you have to root for that team. Put me anywhere on Earth and I’d still be a Cowboys fan.

You would feel far more powerful.

just as much or even more so than you hate the Cowboys. The hatred toward the GMen and Skins isn’t even close. In line with your hat story, I never will wear anything green unless it has a shamrock on it ( the Celtics are my favorite hoops team and my softball team is sponsored by a local Irish pub.

Go Cowboys!

Eagles suck!

As some have said, I don’t think there was a lot of inherent dislike of the Eagles as a Cowboys fan. Truth be told, I don’t dislike a single Eagles player, and I respect Andy Reid. I think most of the hatred Dallas fans have is toward the Eagles fans.

There are many instances for why this is so, but I won’t bother with most of them. I think it’s safe to say that the Irvin incident is the one transgression that can never and will never be forgotten, and I think any Eagles fan that looks back and defends the fans that cheered Irvin’s injury is truly classless. You do not cheer when a hall-of-fame player is paralyzed on the field, ever, regardless of circumstances.

It’s obvious to me that Eagles fans hate the Cowboys and their fans far more than Cowboys fans hate the Eagles and their fans. Truth be told, this is the case for the Cowboys and every NFC East opponent, though it’s most mutual with the Redskins for me.

When Philly owned the East (past tense) for a while back there, I think the dislike was growing. In my opinion, bitterness and resentment is the source of most fan hatred, not to sound too much like Nietzsche or anything. I mean no disrespect whatsoever when I say this, but I think the main reason why Eagles fans hate the Cowboys more is because of the relative success the Cowboys have enjoyed. Hell, it’s why I hate the Flyers so much (go Caps!).

I don’t even like responding to a post made by an Eagles fan.

’Nuff said.

It just depends on who we play next.

I don’t hate the Giants, more like grudgingly respect them.

My dad though… he hates the Redskins. The Eagles… just a seething dislike.

My wife knows the best way to really piss me off is to say something about rooting for the Eagles on game day. Next are the Giants, and the Redskins are last. Now, I do think it is somewhat of a generational thing because my dad hates the Redskins more than anything else.

I FREAKING HATE THE EAGLES BECAUSE OF THEIR FANS!!! 100% can’t stand them. If I could line the city with dynamite and blow it to hell, I would die a happy man. Other than the obvious Irvin injury (I remember watching it on TV when I was little and being near tears…), you have a stench of self-entitlement because you’re a Philly fan. The only thing I can think of that’s worse than people from Philly are the Eagles fans from NJ. The only thing good Philly has created is Rocky Balboa and a cheesesteak which is now a prime reason America is loaded with fata**es. As far as your team goes, I really don’t like them. I’ll give props to people like Westbrook (I went to Salisbury with his little bro, good guy) and Dawkins, but other than that…no love. I live in baltimore and rock my DeMarcus Ware jersey like no tomorrow and haters just look and keep walking. Philly fans are way different. They’re so obnoxious because they feel they need to defend their garbage team and even worse, their garbage fanbase.

…on a more respectable note, it’s going to be an AMAZING game and I can’t wait for it. I’d make a prediction but I don’t wana curse us. To quote Eli Manning (unfortunately), I’m not superstitious, but I’m a littlestitious…Thanks for letting me rant. It felt good after a long day of work

I had a conversation with some friends the other night. I laid out my top 5 fan allegiances as follows:
1) Cowboys
2) Longhorns
3) Mavericks
4) Rangers
5) Everton (I won’t even pretend to be a Stars fan. I’ll pull for ‘em, but that’s not fandom.)

However, my top 5 HATED teams were:

1) OU (Sucks)
2) Spurs (San Antonio, not Tottenham)
3) Yankees
4) Eagles
5) A&M

You see hate is, at least in part, fear based. The only reason I can’t put Philly and A&M at the top is that I don’t fear them in the way that I fear the others.

I have to echo the sentiments about the generational thing. My parents will always consider the Redskins to be the number one rivalry for the Cowboys. Considering the Redskins haven’t been better than mediocre for the past 15 years now, I tend hate the Eagles (mostly their fans) more.

The thing about the Giants, is that they have never been good at the same time the Cowboys were good until lately. They had about 2 years in the early ‘90s but generally speaking, there just haven’t been that many compelling games between the Cowboys and Giants until Parcells became the HC of the Cowboys.

Since then, the Giants have been moving up my list of teams that I hate. I have to say that I hate the classless Eagles fans (but not really the team) the most, but I hate the trashtalking Giant players the most (but not really the fans).

I forget, are they in the Atlantic 10? Or did they finally move up to the ACC? I can never remember.

Seriously, long time Cowboys fans know two rivals: The Redskins and the 49ers, in that order. That’s 13 Lombardi trophies between us and those franchises, and bitter, bitter games.

The Eagles don’t really rate. They haven’t ever won anything. If they ever start stocking their trophy case with some legitimate hardware, then they’ll be our rivals.

back in the day, I’d include Pittsburgh and San Fran fans as well…

I hate the Eagles more then ANY other team. Not Eagles fans (at least not the informed ones). I have several good friends who have the character flaw of loving the Iggles. My fiance is an Iggles fan (although not informed) she cant name a player on the team but she love to taunt me. Maybe I am a masochistic. Anyway, its not about the fans, even though cheering Michael Irvin’s career ending injury as he was taken off the field was THE MOST classless exhibition of human filth I have ever seen. Its about an infernal of a rivalry.

So cheers. If the Iggles make you happy, good on ya. Just keep it civil and intelligent, as you have shown here.

I hate anybody on the schedule, since your repn philly i"ll cut you down like this, the last time the Dallas Cowboys was in the Super Bowl we won, The only time Philly got to the Super Bowl they lost! notice the difference? You really need to win something to be any type of threat anywayz. u aint that speacial!
BTW
Get ready for your first loss of the year!

I live in the Philly suburbs and was raised to be an Eagles fan. I gave up on them early in life, though, because I couldn’t stand rooting for a team that always stunk so badly. I switched my allegiance to the Cowboys some thirty years ago and have never looked back. Despite that, though, I didn’t ever hate the Eagles until about 10 years ago, and it was the fans that did it for me.

Don’t give me that line that says you have to root for the team you grow up near. Growing up, I had friends that lived there all their lives that were avid Steelers fans, Dolphins fans, Giants fans, you name it. They’d tease me when their teams did well, and I’d get them back when the Cowboys did well. I guess it isn’t until the Eagles fans grow up that they become so utterly loathsome.

There are plenty of Eagles fans who are not huge trash-talkers who I can still get along with (my wife and family fall into this category). Then there are others who will get after me from spring training camp until the Eagles inevitably fall away just because they envy me rooting for a class act when they cheer for a perpetual loser. I have learned over the years never to start the trash talking, but to respond in kind to shut them up when necessary.

I respect the Eagles team, year in, year out. I just don’t follow them with passion as I do for the ‘Boys. However, the Eagles fans have pushed me to the point where it can be said that the two teams I love most any given week are the Cowboys and whoever is playing against the Eagles. Any Eagles losses make me happy because they’ll shut up the obnoxious fans.

It is about the fans….I grew up in Giants country (Ct)….and the most obnoxious fans are Piss Giants fans…..Luckily you really only get to hear their wrath every 18 years or so (distance between last 2 SB victories), Deadskins fans haven’t had much to glout about in awhile, so I don’t really get any flack from them….Philly fans just flat out suck….cuz they’ve NEVER won anything, yet they’ll come at you with hatred, with little to back it up………but I always hope they compete and put up good records cuz it only enhances our credibility when we win it all…..Beast of the East….we always were considered the cream of the crop in this division, and always will be……………………..When we win our 6th SB……we’ll once again be considered the greatest team in NFL history…….like we aren’t already ?? :-)

55 uses of the word hate or some derivative thereof in this post. All venom and vitriol. It’s like someone took a bunch of that pink goo from Ghostbusters 2 and threw it on all of us.

Let’s take a moment to step back, and, in the spirit of the brotherhood of man, congratulate our NFC East brethren on their season-opening victory and wish them a safe journey to Dallas. They, in turn, should pass along their concern and prayers for all Cowboys fans affected by the imminent landfall of Hurricane Ike. Peace not war. Love not hate.

Now, having said all of that…Phuck Filly.

All this trash talk reminds me of a funny joke I Hurd (since it was SanAntonio sports talk I thoght this would be the way to spell heard) on San Antonio sports talk a few years ago during Cowboys-Eagles week….

 What is the hardest part of being an Eagles fan?

It’s telling your parents your gay.

Now dont shoot the messenger on this I am just sharing it with the masses it my be insensitive but I thought it was funny.

Man,….I can’t tell you who I hate more……that’s a flip of the coin for me…

I grew up in Dallas but now live in the South West corner of Connecticut, right in Giant country, and i have to live with the Giant hoop la and fans every day…
I agree with one of the posts above about Buddy Ryan, Irvin’s neck injury, etc… and it is cause to really dislike Eagles fans, however I am sure that for the most part they are cool and just really dislike our Cowboys.. not a big deal.. Giant fans are the same, Redskin fans are the same…etc…
And i wonder why???
I bet the Eagles biggest rivals are the Cowboys
I bet the Giants biggest rivals are the Cowboys
I bet the Redskins biggest rivals are the Cowboys
I bet Niner fans dislike the Cowboys just as much as the above…
I be Bills fans dislike like the Cowboys just a hair less than their biggest division rival..

WHY?
because we had a bounty on someones head – NO
because we booed when somone suffered a sever injury during a game – NO
because we have had or have a coach that you just can’t stand – NO

I could see that you can dislike Jerry Jones because he brings in troubled players… but i would rebutt that with NONE of those troubled players got in any trouble once they came to Dallas, and really when it comes down to it.. Jerry wants to win.. he wants to win and he does not break any rules or such to try to win.. it does not always work but at least he is trying to win… i bet we could name 24 owners that do half assed jobs of trying to win… i.e. spending money to get players etc..
now if you build a great team through the draft.. GREAT for you, but getting free agents and such is also a means to an end…

I mean really they all dislike us because overall we have a tremendous history of being really good…. winning or getting to superbowls in bunches, and when we are down, and believe me we have been, i bet every NFL non Cowboy fan is DREADING the day we start to get good again…

So when we get beat by the Eagles, Giants, Redskins, their fans deserver their moment to gloat.. and when one of those teams wins a SuperBowl.. oh well at least two of them… they have their time to gloat.. and that is what sports is all about….
but their fear of Dallas getting good again probably rubs them so much worse than their team bothing us when they are good…

Really, we are the Cowboys… most other fans of just jealous that we have been able to enjoy success and look at where we are now.. POISED to do it again… and remember for the most part we are pretty young.. we are NOT a veteran team by any means, and we have some realy stars signed on for a while…… i bet fans of the NFL are really bummed to see that….

i bet a ton of NFL fans really dislike the Pats now… or at least before the Brady injury. same thing…

But don’t get me wrong, the hate for Philly and Washington is indeed there.

I dont hate Eagle fans, I just hate the Eagles. And I only hate the Eagles because they are always a threat. If they sucked I wouldnt hate them so much, but because they are a perrenial threat I hate them even more than I hate Washington and New York.

I was always secretly in love with T.O. and now I can finally come out of the closet.

I was always in love with McNabb. I used to always hope that you Eagle fans would boo him out of town so that we could have him, but now we have Romo and I wouldn’t trade him for Manning or a healthy Brady, or Joe Montana, or John Elway, or Dan Marino for that matter.

These are the conclusions I reached:

As a kid I always enjoyed the Redskins game, that was the rivalry. Also there wasn’t any of this excessive mouthiness among players or fans. Later I also enjoyed knowing those losses to Staubach&Company gave George Allen nightmares (God rest his soul). Redskin fans were generally polite and well-mannered, even a little geeky.

As I got older the Giants made life painful for everyone in the NFC East, and I remember vividly thinking that LT had to be on something to be that fast(little did I know I was right). Giants fans talk out of this world smack, I guess figuring a good bark will make up for the absolute lack of bite. Still I never really hated the G-Men, and even grudgingly admired them for pounding Joe Montana like a narc at a biker rally.< I swear once I thought LT killed Montana)

That brings me to the Eagles, the almost, but not quite a Super Bowl winning team. There are several distinct reasons why I both respect, and or despise/loath the Eagles and their fans. I remember both there trips to the big game. It is my standard practice to root for other NFC East teams in the Super Bowl. So far the Eagles are a 0-2, and I really wanted you guys to beat the Patriots, McNabb you owe me money. The Eagles fans I loathe for the most part. The majority are obnoxious at a minimum, and some I am certain are in possession of IQ in the neighborhood of room temperature. Current company (yophillybro) is excluded from these aforementioned dirtbags.

I don’t generally get into the whole, “He said blah blah about my team”, honestly who cares. If I read post written by an intelligent person they usually steer clear of this although not always. If your team needs motivation to get up for this game, they are in deep sh*t already.

Both teams are better than most, I think the Cowboys have the Eagles on talent (Dallas O-Line being the biggest difference), home field, and raw offensive firepower. Eagles scheme on defense better, but don’t really have anything else tipping in their favor. If Dallas can manage 15-18 carries out of MB3, 10-12 touches for Felix, and 5-7 for Choice we win. 60 plays, and hold the ball for 36+ minutes…you win(well something like 96% of the time). All the bitching about who has the better secondary or receivers is moot, the running game will decide this contest.