Tanking is a dirty word in the NFL. This is not just for the Dallas Cowboys. The idea is simply not as acceptable as it is for other professional sports, where many franchises clearly throw in the towel with weeks, or even months, to go in the season. Some even seem to enter the year with the idea of just accumulating lottery picks or whatever. Pro football is different, though, in that it only has sixteen games a year from each team to generate revenue, and at least before COVID came along and messed it all up, the other sports had so many more games to fill arenas and stadiums, or at least put enough fans in the seats to make that a much bigger part of the economic equation.
Cowboys hot topic: The subtlety of tanking
