Don't compare us to you. We are different and better. Having lived in both Pittsburgh and Dallas, I know that there is an ocean of difference between the reverence Pittsburghers hold for Steelers, and what Metroplexans claim to have for the Cowboys. YOU DTOWN do not understand passion for a team until you have lived in a city like Pittsburgh where the team almost defines the city. See in Dallas I can get in my car, close my eyes, and in no time at all I will be in place where they do not give a fuck about the Cowboys. In Pittsburgh, you have the same 2.5 million people who have derived from the area, whose parents came to the place 250-300 years ago, and you cannot tell them that there is any other place in the world than Pittsburgh. The black people in Dallas come from Louisiana, Nacogdoches, Palestine etc etc, and only a small percentage can claim to be native Dallasites, if the expression even has meaning....Dallas is hodge-podge city, started in the late 1880s, that barely has identity or beauty, that is in a fight to define itself...How can there be true loyalty to such a place. In the time I have been here, the City has grown be almost 50% Mexican...And you want to know why the love of the Cowboys is so superficial..
The benefits of Dallas are more to a foreigner like me than to a person who was born here like you. Because of the intinerant nature of many of the residents, there really is not a defined "Dallas-kind". People come and go, and this constant flux pretty much makes this place the property of everyone and no-one, rather simultaneously. In Pittsburgh there is characteristic Pittsburgh type; when people who are isolated from everyone and everywhere by distance and mountains, and fuck each other long enough, they begin to share genes, and therefore similar characteristics. For that reason the black people of Pittsburgh are a slight shed of a certain odd red colour, which not less than a few of them attributed to their Indian heritage; the white people are also peculiaror in their own ways; they live in little ethnic Hamlets like Polish Hill, Or Oakland where Italians like Marino and Montana came from, there is also huge German contigent, which produced the Kauers (there is no such name as Cohwer), Heinzes etc etc...Therefore, if you are a foreigner in Pittsburg, you feel it and you know it.
