Gameday for me, then vs. now

[Rynie]

I tend to drink more. In fact, it's 10:20 and I think I'll crack open my first Newcastle warewolf. Go Cowboys!

[Chocolate Lab]

I feel the same as many of you, but I don't think age has much to do with it. Like Mike Gundy, I'm a man, I'm 40, and I still get pumped for games. I've got an isolated gym/mancave where I can put on a game and get as excited and stupid as I want. I can, and do, still yell at the TV and jump around like an idiot.

But not for Cowboys games. Like many have posted, I'm sort of numb now. I think it was all those historic blown leads last year and the incredible late game bungling we all saw. This team is extremely stale right now and needs a real makeover.

And I guarantee you we aren't alone. For years I've watched most games at a Dallas-area bar/restaurant with some friends, and you can feel the apathy growing the last couple of years. From 2006-2009 or so, people would come in with their jerseys on, get really into the game, etc. Now there's just a scattering of people who even pay attention, and even they are pretty subdued.

The really bad thing I've noticed, and this just started happened last year, is that when watching a non-Cowboys game in which I have some kind of rooting interest, I now expect the worst. If a team I like is winning, I expect them to blow it. If a team I hate is losing, I expect them to come back and win. I'm naturally pretty optimistic, so when I caught myself feeling this way late last year while watching a game, it surprised me. I realized that my Cowboys feelings had bled over into games they had nothing to do with.

[Hardline]

Originally Posted by chip_gilkey

Please lets not turn this political. Politics have absolute nothing to do with what I started this thread about.

I have no intention of turning this thread political.
Lets just say country trump sports .While the gladiators were fighting in the arena, Rome was collapsing.

[Proximo]

Originally Posted by Clove

If you're a person who enjoyed some of the teams success as a lot of us has, this time in history is so depressing, that you have to become numb to it. I have no favorites on the team anymore, I don't know who we are as a franchise.

The wins don't mean anything to me, I still can't look away though. It's like a bad marriage, where you love the wife, but you have so much bad blood, you're just going through the motions. You don't want to leave her, so you just become bitter.

Wow, that's pretty sad. If you can't even enjoy the wins anymore then why watch?

I still get into the games every week, enjoy the wins, and hate the losses. No matter how poorly the season is going though my Sunday rituals are pretty much the same. Being a football/Cowboys fan is a hobby to me, I don't think I'll ever stop enjoying it, but if I did I'd probably spend my Sunday's doing something else during fall/winter. Ultimately it's all a matter of perspective I suppose.

[Hoofbite]

Here's my gameday.

Wake up just before the early kick off.....watch football all day.

[lane]

age

new stadium...i mean shopping mall

we have some soft ,stupid players that need to be benched or cut.

wussification of the nfl

crooked referees

jason and jerry

these are the reasons it's hard to get up for the cowboys for me.

still love the team though..it's not the player's fault who they have to play for.