The remarkable story of how Dallas went from “city that killed JFK” to home of “America’s Team”

How a Thanksgiving football game, the Cowboys, the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, and "Dallas" transformed a city's reputation

This is an essay mostly about the Dallas Cowboys. If you stop reading right now, I won’t mind. If this becomes my least-read post, it would actually make me happy. But in all likelihood, it’ll become one of the most-read posts.

The Dallas Cowboys are like the Kardashians. They are famous for being famous. It doesn’t matter if the topic is an actual game,…