Several sports team in Kansas City, Missouri have used the name Cowboys:
- Kansas City Cowboys (Union Association), a baseball team in the Union Association in 1884
- Kansas City Cowboys (National League), a baseball team in the National League in 1886
- Kansas City Cowboys (American Association), a baseball team in the American Association in 1888-1889
- Kansas City Cowboys (20th century baseball), a 20th century minor baseball team
- Kansas City Cowboys, a 1920s National Football League team
Famous quotes containing the words kansas city, kansas, city and/or cowboys:
“Kansas City is lost; I am here!”
—A. Edward Sullivan. Professor Quail (W.C. Fields)
“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.... Now I know we’re not in Kansas.”
—Noel Langley (1898–1981)
“‘Society’ in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, ‘good for this generation only,’ and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“What do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)