Anybody who knows anything about sports in the Washington, DC metro area knows that in this town there are two NFL teams, the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys. More important than how all of these Cowboys fans got here, is why? Why does a city more than 1,300 miles away have just as many fans in the District of Columbia as a team that plays its home games just a few metro stops from the National Mall?

There are those that fall into the first school of thought: “We like the Cowboys because they’re better than the home team.”

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