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Lions vs. Cowboys series history: Random Stats

The Cowboys are America’s team like Chicken Pox is America’s disease. I don’t know where both came from and both make me itchy. Okay, I do know where it came from. The term “America’s Team” literally came from the Cowboy’s themselves in their own 1978 highlight video. The Cowboys are your friend that says he lost his virginity at 14 and says it “lasted for like three hours.” Let’s get to the history.

Once upon a time, Elvis Presley asked all the ladies of the world, Are You Lonesome tonight? On that same day, the world went and saw Swiss Family Robinson, and Kenneth Branagh, the bad guy from Wild Wild West, was born.