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HighTechDave · 11-06-2006

With all this "jumping off the cliff" posts (including myself) today,can you imagine the day after each of our SuperBowl loses to the stupid Steelers, if we had the Internet and forums back then?

Good god the Moderators would not have been able to keep pace!!!!!!

GTaylor · 11-06-2006

Or when Tom Landry was fired, when Jimmy Johnson was fired (True we have usenet back then but it wasn't nearly as popular as internet boards are today)

joseephuss · 11-06-2006

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Originally Posted by HighTechDave

With all this "jumping off the cliff" posts (including myself) today,can you imagine the day after each of our SuperBowl loses to the stupid Steelers, if we had the Internet and forums back then?

Good god the Moderators would not have been able to keep pace!!!!!!

At least they were in the big game. The playoffs are 3 seasons past(all because of Quincy). Playoff success is even further back. Losing in the Superbowl was tough, but it at least showed that it was a successful team. This team has yet to show that type of success. I think if they do, they may find that they like it.

diehard2294 · 11-06-2006

I would have failed all of my classes

that Jackie Smith drop still sickens me

HighTechDave · 11-06-2006

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I would have failed all of my classes

that Jackie Smith drop still sickens me

That is EXACTLY what I was looking for. We would be yellign for his head. Wait, we did.

Haley94 · 11-06-2006

I know i would have been crying about that bogus pass interference penalty on Benny Barns. Or there would be tons of Jackie Smith should be hung in the center of Dallas threads.

joseephuss · 11-06-2006

Cut Randy White for fumbling a kick off return. Or fire the coaches for having him in there with a cast on his arm. I bet those would be long threads.

Another would be that Hollywood has to go. We can't have a cokehead on the team. And of course we would instantly know that he was high during the game because these days we know just about everything instantly.

HighTechDave · 11-06-2006

i know it wasn't the Steelers, but can you imagine the Staubach/Morton threads? Or Duane Thomas Must Go threads?

Ya know, not having the internet back then wasn't such a bad thing after all...

Yeagermeister · 11-06-2006

This thread must be for Juke and CBZ only

Hostile · 11-06-2006

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Originally Posted by HighTechDave

With all this "jumping off the cliff" posts (including myself) today,can you imagine the day after each of our SuperBowl loses to the stupid Steelers, if we had the Internet and forums back then?

Good god the Moderators would not have been able to keep pace!!!!!!

I will be dead honest with you. I don't think it was near as bad back then to lose. I flat out do not remember Cowboys fans turning on their own players the way fans do now. Yes, we criticized when they did bad, but I don't think it ever got personal. I couldn't stand Steve Pelleur, no one ever responded to me there the way Q, Hutch, Vinny & Bledsoe fans have. You could actually talk calmly and rationally about what you wanted from your team.

**ABQCOWBOY** · 11-06-2006

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I will be dead honest with you. I don't think it was near as bad back then to lose. I flat out do not remember Cowboys fans turning on their own players the way fans do now. Yes, we criticized when they did bad, but I don't think it ever got personal. I couldn't stand Steve Pelleur, no one ever responded to me there the way Q, Hutch, Vinny & Bledsoe fans have. You could actually talk calmly and rationally about what you wanted from your team.

Well, I think the QB position in Dallas has always kinda been that way. Dandy Don, Morton, Roger, White, Pelleur, Hogenboom, all of em. Seemed like it was always drama for those guys. For the rest of the team, I kinda agree. I honestly think it's because you drafted guys in those days and they made less money. They didn't show up on another team every 2 years. The press didn't villanize them. Lots of things never got reported so they stayed heros longer. Today, the press reports and creates news to sell product, many times at the expense of the players, franchise and fans. Just the way it is now. Can't say I'm not sorry to see those kinds of changes take place. Like it much better then as opposed to now. JMO.

Cbz40 · 11-06-2006

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Originally Posted by Hostile

I will be dead honest with you. I don't think it was near as bad back then to lose. I flat out do not remember Cowboys fans turning on their own players the way fans do now. Yes, we criticized when they did bad, but I don't think it ever got personal. I couldn't stand Steve Pelleur, no one ever responded to me there the way Q, Hutch, Vinny & Bledsoe fans have. You could actually talk calmly and rationally about what you wanted from your team.

I don't remember myself turning on coaches & players but Merdith was give alot of grief by fans and as well as Landry in the early years. End of the "64-65" season there were people ready to run him out of town on a rail.

bbgun · 11-06-2006

It's a shame Meredith retired so young (31), but he was a crash test dummy for too long.

Cbz40 · 11-06-2006

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It's a shame Meredith retired so young (31), but he was a crash test dummy for too long.

Yes it is.......The Cowboys were just another NFL Team until Meredith came along. He put us in the National spot light......Center stage.