Rapper, singer and songwriter Post Malone posed for a photo with Cowboys players Brandon Aubrey (from left), Trent Sieg and Bryan Anger before the team’s game against the New York Giants at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Sept. 26, 2024. Malone, a longtime Cowboys fan, grew up in Grapevine.
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The NFL is back and soon, the Dallas Cowboys will be, too.
Fans from across the country will be tuning in for the Cowboys’ Sunday night opener against the New York Giants. That’ll likely include some famous names, too.
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Here’s a look at some of the big names who have said they root for America’s Team over the years:
Post Malone
The Grapevine-raised rapper is a huge Cowboys fan. He even played the halftime show at the Cowboys Thanksgiving game against the Chiefs in 2025. Before that, Malone partnered with Raising Cane’s on a Cowboys-themed restaurant in Dallas.
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President George W. Bush
The former president is a longtime fixture in the North Texas sports scene. He owned the Texas Rangers in the 1990s and can still be seen at sporting events across D-FW. He was even on the field for the coin toss as recently as Nov. 2025.
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Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett talks with Miami Heat’s Lebron James before a game between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Sunday, September 8, 2013. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
LeBron James
While the Ohio native has a strong connection to his local Cleveland Browns, James has also rooted for the Cowboys before. However, his fandom might be on ice. James said in 2022 that the franchise’s response to mid-2010s anthem protests turned him off from the team.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones poses with singer and actress Selena Gomez, who will perform at halftime of the Thanksgiving Day game before the Minnesota Vikings vs. the Dallas Cowboys NFL football game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Sunday, November 3, 2013. (Louis DeLuca/Dallas Morning News)
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Selena Gomez
The singer and actress grew up in Grand Prairie and once said supporting the local team was “natural.”
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“I don’t think you can be from Texas and not watch a Cowboys Thanksgiving game,” she said in 2013.
Much like her fellow D-FW artist Post Malone, Gomez performed for the team’s iconic Thanksgiving game back in 2013.
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Musician Jay-Z stands on the field before an NFL football game between the Washington Commanders and Dallas Cowboys, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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Jay-Z
The famous New York rapper has said he’s a Cowboys fan in the past, even showing up on the sidelines at games. He said on a radio show in 2013 that he roots for the team because of his father, who gravitated toward the franchise during their glory years in the 1970s.
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His company Roc Nation has also represented Cowboys players, including Dez Bryant, in the past.
Shaquille O’Neal
Long before he moved to North Texas, “Shaq” played high school basketball in San Antonio. He’s long claimed the Cowboys as his team and in 2017, confirmed his allegiance is permanent when asked by Deion Sanders if the Cowboys were still his favorite team.
“Always, baby,” O’Neal said. “You know that. Always.”
Since then, O’Neal has made his mark in North Texas in various ways, including with two larges homes he purchased in the region.
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Singer Kelly Clarkson performs the national anthem before the first half of NFL football action between the Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas on Nov. 23, 2006
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Kelly Clarkson
Another D-FW-born singer with allegiances to her hometown team, Clarkson has shown her support in various ways through the years. In 2012, she released “Get Up (A Cowboys Anthem)” for the team. More than 10 years later, she made an impression while hosting the NFL Honors award show when she came out wearing a unique Cowboys-themed gown with the names and numbers of various players.
Like Gomez and Malone, Clarkson also performed for the halftime show at the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving game, doing so in 2007.
Clarence Thomas
The Supreme Court Justice’s Cowboys fandom has been a matter of public record since his Senate confirmation hearings in 1991.
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“I have been a Dallas Cowboys fan for 25 years,” Thomas told then-Sen. Joe Biden during the hearing.
His fandom recently resurfaced when a replica Super Bowl ring that Thomas received as a gift from Jerry Jones in the 1990s made headlines.
Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy visits with actor and fan Jamie Foxx following training camp practice in Oxnard, California, August 9, 2022.
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Jamie Foxx
The Terrell native grew up just east of Dallas and played football growing up. So naturally, he gravitated toward the hometown team, too.
“We eat, we breath, we sleep, we die Cowboys,” Foxx told WFAA in 2022.
“Stone Cold” Steve Austin
The Texas native and WWE Hall of Famer is a longtime Cowboys fan. In 2015, Austin, who played college football for North Texas in the 1980s, joked to The News that he could step in at quarterback for an injured Tony Romo.