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)
“He bends to the order of the seasons, the weather, the soils and crops, as the sails of a ship bend to the wind. He represents continuous hard labor, year in, year out, and small gains. He is a slow person, timed to Nature, and not to city watches. He takes the pace of seasons, plants and chemistry. Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)