Is Taylor Swift Stealing Cowboys ‘America’s Team’ Nickname?

We're all about all things "American.'' So good for the Dallas Cowboys, who were christened "America's Team'' in the late 1970's to the point where it's long been an "official'' nickname

And good for Taylor Swift, who is known in some circles as "Miss Americana.''

But bad on critics of the Cowboys who are creating some sort of imagined conflict that would have Dallas lose its title ... because the pop-icon Swift is helping the Kansas City Chiefs steal it.

So claims longtime sports commentator Bob Costas, who expounded upon the theory that the Chiefs have usurped the Dallas Cowboys as "America's Team" to basketball legend Charles Barkley and CBS News anchor Gayle King on their shared CNN program "King Charles."

“I think the Chiefs, now it can safely be said, are "America’s Team,” Costas said. “The Dallas Cowboys have had that moniker for a long time, and there’s still a glamour franchise, but they haven’t been at the Super Bowl since the mid-90s."

"But now the Chiefs have been to four of the last five Super Bowls. They have (in Patrick Mahomes) the best quarterback in the game, even though others are really good. He’s exciting. He improvises. He’s charismatic.”

Costas continued: “They’ve got Travis Kelce and his romance with Taylor Swift, and it’s a big deal to begin with and now it blows up bigger, plus, the State Farm commercials."

News flash for Costas: That's not how official nicknames work. As CowboysSI.com points out: "It's non-transferable. It's THE COWBOYS NICKNAME - just as Pittsburgh has "The Steel Curtain'' and just as Missouri is "The Show-Me State'' and just as Ali is "The Greatest.''

In fact, we'll use a baseball example to help out baseball guy Costas: "The World Series'' doesn't actually include "the world.'' But the name stays ... and if other countries wish to band together to play an earth-wise baseball tournament?

No amount of anybody's recency bias will allow it to be called the "World Series.''

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Kansas City and San Francisco play in Super Bowl LVIII on Feb. 11. Much is at stake. But the "America's Team'' monicker - non-transferable as it is - ain't one of them.