Dallas Cowboys as a metaphor for Trump voters
I know that many of the people here really do not care about football. That is perfectly fine. However since we do search for metaphors that people do understand in common, allow me to offer you an example of something you might find useful the next time you're trying to speak to someone who is a football fan.
This year, the Dallas Cowboys were a serious contender for the Super Bowl. Indeed their loss to the Green Bay Packers was less than seven points, which means that it was not a touchdown that beat them, but a few field goals. However they were brought to this point not by Tony Romo,, that all American white quarterback. Tony got injured, so they brought in the fellow by the name of Dax Prescott, a rookie quarterback of mixed race heritage. Now true to form the owner, Jerry Jones was unhappy about this, and so were many fans in Dallas who really did not want some mixed race quarterback running their beloved Dallas Cowboys.
A funny thing happened, tthis new quarterback got them to the playoffs,, somewhere where they were not used to being. He defeated many other teams, and the actual victories, all the while Tony Romo was from the sidelines speaking as if he would be ready any minute now restore the old order. Indeed many Dallas cowboy fans, even as they were enjoying the victories this new quarterback and gotten them, kept wanting Tony Romo to come back. It sure didn't that the Dallas Cowboys,, who were known for encouraging a rather reckless culture, and being proud of it did not know what to make of this very soft-spoken, clean-cut, mixed race quarterback.
The ended literally two games from the Super Bowl, the new quarterback scored a lot of points, but again the same problems involving defense that put Tony Romo on the sidelines wound up allowing Green Bay to score points. Now does Jerry Jones blame the fact that he had neglected the defense in favor of trying to turn the Dallas Cowboys into a Tony Romo glory machine? No the think this rookie quarterback, who made history by doing so well as a rookie for putting him within two games of the Super Bowl? No, what he did is that he went on another rant about how Tony Romo was still his choice, and how Tony Romo would have beaten the Green Bay Packers.
Again, no respect for mixed race quarterback who actually gave you better victories than you enjoyed in years. No, Jerry you had to go ahead and talk about Tony Romo.. It was bad enough that you made a personal promise that Tony Romo was going to be in the Super Bowl, regardless of the fact that he was absent most of the blood season, no Mr. Jones you had your vision of your all American white quarterback, and so did many of your same cowboy fans, actual victories be damned! And let's not even talk about the fact that you were able to focus on the less sexy actions like making a defense, your team would've actually gone farther, instead sportscasters were really getting sick of Cowboys fans chanting open quote how about damn cowboys!" Made a point that you looked foolish! They know that billionaires in America never have to admit that there sorry, because America somehow thinks that someone who can make $1 billion is automatically a genius and a hero. Nevermind the years where the Dallas Cowboys word joke because of Jerry Jones trying to go ahead and act like he is a genius.
So,, the moral of the story is, billionaires, and the he seeds that drove her pennies at the billionaires do not actually care that much about actual results, actual victories, but instead seek that ending were they are the heroes of the story and all their heroes look like the idealized image of the all American white quarterback. Nevermind any mixed-race person who actually can give them results, and not be a tabloid embarrassment, as Tony Romo often was.
Right now, we have a billionaire controlling our "team", and like many billionaires that use professional sports arena as a substitute for competence,, and a way to compensate for their small amount of, let's just call it testosterone, though many ladies out there not only know the type of man, but suffer because of that type of man; these are the sort of men that kept saying "all Trump was doing was "locker room talk." The thing to keep in mind is, these folks believe that they do not have to listen to reason, because frankly, they see the reason is just a tool to get money which is not but a tool to increase for vanity. Part of the problem is in this culture of ours, if you can become a billionaire, or even the sort of millionaire that flatters white people's vanity, (as opposed to being mixed-race and competent) then you can literally do no wrong, reality be damned! After all, we know that next season, Cowboys fans will file into that new stadium that their tax dollars bought for Jerry Jones, and that they will be looking forward to the return of Tony Romo, who will do his best to make the Cowboys great again. Of course, while I fly the sarcasm flag over that last sentence, I am sure that many cowboy fans would not.
By the way here to paint sources in case you are wondering what that heck I am talking about:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/columnist/bell/2016/12/16/jerry-jones-dak-prescott-dallas-cowboys-tony-romo/95539120/
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlington/2010/07/11/20100710-Tax-income-to-pay-Cowboys-Stadium-9172
I think even nonsports fans will see how this is a very fitting metaphor for our country at the moment.
PS: if you happen to be one of those levels in Dallas who is saying "I hate the F**ing cowboys!" I offer sincere apologies. I'm fully aware that there are many in Texas who are liberals of the first order, sons and daughters of Molly Ivins and Khris Khristopherson. as a Florida boy, I can really sympathize with you whenever a bunch of northeasterners demonize anyone not in the Northeast,, despite the fact that California made Reagan, and now New York made Trump.
