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)
“Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average county in Kansas or Nebraska.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“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)