How ‘bout them Cowboys? I’m so old I remember when America’s Team was better at football than bragging.

So why is Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, while Broncos owner Pat Bowlen isn’t? Beats me. Here’s the best explanation I can give you. During the past two decades, Jones has beaten Bowlen in only one category:

Louder mouth.

The last time Dallas won the Super Bowl, Broncos linebacker Von Miller was 6 years old.

“1995,” Miller said Wednesday, correctly identifying the most recent NFL season when the Cowboys won it all.

Dallas beat Pittsburgh on Jan. 28, 1996, to win Super Bowl XXX.

“I remember it,” Miller said. “My dad was going crazy.”

In the 21 NFL seasons since their last championship, the Cowboys record is 175-161. Dallas has won three playoff games since Miller was in the first grade.

I don’t speak Texan, but I believe the proper term for the NFL team with the most oversized ego in relationship to its chronic mediocrity is:

Big hat, no cattle.

So I asked Miller, a native of Dallas, to explain to me why the Cowboys are America’s Team.

“I don’t know,” said Miller, born in 1989, the same year Jones purchased the Cowboys for $140 million. “From Day 1, it’s just how it’s been. When you’re raised in Dallas, you feel like Texas is America. Dallas is the team, so it’s America’s Team.”

Without prompting, Miller can rattle off the names of all the stars who wore Cowboys helmets during the 1990s. Deion Sanders. Michael Irvin. Troy Aikman. Emmitt Smith. Nate Newton.

There is hope down in Texas that the Cowboys are finally back on top, riding high on the talent of quarterback Dak Prescott and running back Ezekiel Elliott. Dallas went 13-3 last season, then promptly got bounced from the playoffs.

Big hat, no cattle.

The Broncos are not America’s Team. They have been far better than America’s team, at least since Miller was a child learning to ride a bicycle. Anything Jones has done in Dallas, Bowlen has done better in Denver. And done it longer. In 33 seasons of Bowlen’s ownership, the Broncos have had more Super Bowl appearances (seven) than losing seasons (five).

Remind me again: Who’s the real big D?

When Broncos running back Terrell Davis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, there was grumbling from the likes of former NFL player Corey Dillon and longtime Dallas journalist Rick Gosselin that giving T.D. a gold jacket lowered the bar by which future Hall candidates will be judged.

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George “Papa Bear” Halas was a true football pioneer, and Jones is no Halas. Without Al Davis, there probably would be no NFL in Denver. But Jones? Well, he did hire Jimmy Johnson and has chased every last dollar, even if it meant abandoning loyal fan bases in St. Louis, San Diego and Oakland.

Maybe I’m nuts. But I go to NFL games to watch the players who score touchdowns and make tackles, not the owners who sign their paychecks.

Davis got his Hall pass the old-fashioned way. He earned it, by leading the Broncos to two championships, rushing for 2,008 yards in a single season and being named to the all-decade team of the 1990s.