{"id":10973,"date":"2009-09-20T19:53:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T03:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10973"},"modified":"2009-09-20T20:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T04:00:29","slug":"why-are-some-teams-always-finesse-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10973","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Some Teams Always Finesse Teams?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys, no matter the coach, have been a finesse football team for about 50 years now. By contrast, the Pittsburgh Steeler have always been a brutal force team.<\/p>\n<p>Why has this never changed? The teams have been successful. They&#8217;ve been losers. But they never change this identity.<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense that stadium and weather will be the primary determinants for a football team&#8217;s identity. Pittsburgh has lousy weather and an outdoor stadium, so power football makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas only rarely has snow. It&#8217;s more suited to finesse football even though its stadium (until now that it has a choice) was under the stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys, no matter the coach, have been a finesse football team for about 50 years now. By contrast, the Pittsburgh Steeler have always been a brutal force team. Why has this never changed? The teams have been successful. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10973\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[19023,10685,19024,7024,19022],"class_list":["post-10973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-brutal-force","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-finesse","tag-football-team","tag-pittsburg-steeler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10975,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10973\/revisions\/10975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}