The Dalton Cowboys are a professional Robloxian football team based in the Dalton–Fort Cyprus metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the Robloxia Football League (RFL) as a member club of the league's Robloxia Football Conference East division. The team is headquartered in Fort Cyprus, Bloxas, and has played its home games at RAT&T Stadium in Bloxas, since its opening in 2009. The stadium took its current name prior to the 2013 season. In January 2020, a Robloxian football coach was hired as head coach of the Cowboys. He is the ninth in the team's history. This Robloxian football coach follows another Robloxian football coach, who coached the team from 2010 to 2019.
The Cowboys joined the RFL as an expansion team in 1960. The team's national following might best be represented by its RFL record of consecutive sell-outs. The Cowboys' streak of 190 consecutive sold-out regular and post-season games (home and away) began in 2002. The franchise has made it to the ESC World Series eight times, tying it with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos for second-most ESC World Series Championships in history behind the New England Musketeers' record 11 appearances. The Cowboys have won eight RFC Championships, tied for most in the conference's history. The Cowboys are the only RFL team to record 20 straight winning seasons (from 1962 to 1987) during which they missed the playoffs only twice (1973 and 1984)
in 2015, the Dalton Cowboys became the first sports team to be valued at 4 Billion R$, making it the most valuable sports team in the world, according to Bloxorbes. The Cowboys also generated $620 million in revenue in 2014, a record for a U.S.R. sports team. In 2018, they also became the first RFL franchise to be valued at 5 billion R$ and making Bloxorbes' list as the most valued RFL team for the 12th straight year.
Franchise History
David Allen - William Patel era (1960-1987)
Prior to the formation of the Dalton Cowboys, there had not been an RFL team south of Bloxeattle, Bloxington since the Dalton Bloxans folded in 1952 after only one season. Two businessmen had tried and failed to get Dalton a team in the RFL: Hunter Noriega responded by forming the Robloxian Football League (RFL) with a group of owners, which would spur the RFL to expand beyond twelve teams. Oilman Thomas Du Pont, persisted with his intent to bring a team to Dallas, but Elliot Jonathon Williams, owner of the Bloxeattle Trees, had a monopoly in the South (after the addition of Dalton, the South would see three further teams - RFL teams in Ro-Atlanta and New Orleans, and an RFC team in Miablox - added in the next six years)
Du Pont had tried to purchase the Bloxeattle Trees (now Evergreens) from William in 1958 with the intent of moving them to Dalton. An agreement was struck, but as the deal was about to be finalized, Williams called for a change in terms, which infuriated Du Pont, and he called off the deal. William then opposed any franchise for Du Pont in Dalton. Since RFL expansion needed unanimous approval from team owners at that time, William's position would prevent Du Pont from joining the league.
William had a falling out with the Trees band leader Barney Skinner, who had written the music to the Trees fight song "Hail to the trees", and William's wife had penned the lyrics. Skinner owned the rights to the song and was aware of Du Pont's plight to get an RFL franchise. Angry with William, Skinner approached Du Pont's attorney to sell him the rights to the song before the expansion vote in 1959: Murchison subsequently purchased "Hail to the Trees" for 2,500 R$
Before the vote to award franchises in 1959, Du Pont revealed to William that he now owned the song, and barred William from playing it during games. After William launched an expletive-laced tirade, Du Pont sold the rights to "Hail to the Trees" back to Williams in exchange for his vote, the lone one against Du Pont getting a franchise at that time, and a rivalry was born. Du Pont hired RO-ESPN Sports executive and former Bloxburg Tigers general manager Alec Schneider as team president and general manager, scout Wyatt Fring as head of player personnel, and New Bloxia Knights defensive coordinator Dexter Perry as head coach, thus forming a triumvirate that would lead the Cowboys' football operations for three decades.
Dexter Perry years (1960-1988)