ESPN's Colin Cowherd is a fucking retard. But even the blindest squirrel finds a nut.
He said:
"It's interesting. Everybody thinks their town is a great sports town. We don't have a single e-mail form Dallas today about the Rangers. Yeah, I was reading a column earlier this week, Oh, they love the Rangers here. No, they conditionally like the Rangers. If the Rangers get red hot, it's sort of like Colorado with baseball. Colorado and Texas are football states, Broncos and Cowboys. They'll like fall in love with their team in August if they start playing well, but I mean, you know, Texas right now, watch the ratings fall off the cliff. It is a football town."
He's right. This town could give two shits about the Texas Rangers and only care to show up to games (well, about 25,000 of us) when the Rangers are in remote contention.
In one year, if the Rangers are second in the division and the Cowboys are 5-3, it'll go back to the way it's always been. A football town.
Dallas-Fort Worth isn't sophisticated enough for football. It's a fragmented area. Too spread out. It's full of transplants, young people and troglodytes. It's also a town of frontrunners and the biggest band of bandwagoners since the Californian gold rush.
Baseball isn't elitist or for just "smart" people. It's for patient people. It's for people that like subtle nuances and drama. It's for people that like going to the ballpark and looking at stats until their eyes bleed.
It's basically a nerd's sport. And Dallas-Fort Worth aren't nerds. If anyone tries to deny this, they are A) idiots, B) in denial or C) not lived here long enough.
Cowherd's still an assface, though.
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