How/When did you become a Cowboys fan?

[dfan32]

but I didn't see the early years. Not from Texas but I lived there in Dallas/Oak Cliff from 70 to 75. That's when I became a fan. Started watching when Craig Morton was the starter. Lost the Superbowl that same year to the Colts. That's of course when Staubach came into the scene and I've been a fan ever since.

[nake]

I've been a Cowboys fan for a while. I'll be honest though, if I knew I was going to be dead before the Cowboys got to the NFC Championship game, I probably would have done something else.

[PA Cowboy Fan]

I grew up in NC during the 1970's. I didn't really follow football until 1975 when I was 10. Before then I'd watch a game ever so often but that would be that. Back in those days the teams that were on tv all the time were The Cowboys, Steelers, Dolphins and Raiders. In NC back then it was Deadskin country. Their games were on every single week. I just liked the Cowboys. I was a big western fan and I liked the players...mainly Roger Staubach. what a leader he was. I liked Tom Landry too. I just started following them. The first SB I ever watched was SB X. I've been a fan ever since. We used to get the Cowboys on tv quite alot so I got to see most of their games. It was great being a fan back then. Every year we were in the playoffs and it was only disappointing when we didn't make the SB. But we could always say, "Wait until next year," because you knew we would be back.

[Aven8]

Originally Posted by CanadianCowboysFan

how did you react when his first pass was an INT

For me, became a fan really in 1977 although liked the name and team helmet earlier. I was 11 in 1977 when I first watched a lot of NFL. Stuck with them ever since.

I used to get a lot of their games on WCAX Burlington Vermont. When moved out west in 1980 was a little harder to see them as local CBS in Seattle thought local TV meant NFC West so I was stuck with Falcons, Saints etc. However, got enough Cowboys to keep me a fan.

Didn't bother me. That dang Strahan!!!! I knew we were in for a ride and Parcells old cronies were a thing of the past. Hope was reborn in Cowboy land that day!

[john van brocklin]

Originally Posted by Aven8

Being that the news is slow today I thought I would ask this question.

I was born and raised in TX so I've followed this team since birth. I know a lot of the board is from all over the country and just wanted to know how you became a fan, etc?

Also, for the older then the Internet, satellite tv, generation when you were fans before these inventions how did you see the games, etc.? Radio?

First Cowboys game I can remember watching as a young lad was the Hail Mary playoff win over the Vikings.

Have been hooked ever since !

[HoustonFrog]

Grew up in Ft. Worth and a fan since I could remember watching football 1976 or so.

[newlander]

Staubach, Tony D., The Manster, Harvey Martin and Doomsday....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh: those were the days. Beat Denver that year in the SUperdome in N.orleans and I was HOOKED.

[cajuncocoa]

It was 1968, and my Dad told his 12-year old daughter (me) that she would have to learn about football if she wanted to be able to talk to boys. (I think my Dad just wanted somebody to watch games with him). I started watching or listening to Saints games with him for a few weeks, but it got boring because they were losing all the time. Mid-season, the Dallas Cowboys came to town. My Dad told me about the Ice Bowl game that ended the previous season for the Cowboys...I think I kinda felt a little bad for them and decided right then and there that they would be my team. I dumped the Saints and never looked back.

[BHendri5]

born in Texas, everyone in my family is a Cowboys fan, therefore I am a Cowboys fan have been since I was a 1yr old toddler with a Bob Hayes jersey, over 40yrs of being and Cowboys fan, the only NFL team I have ever followed and will always follow, I am not one of those people that has a team in the NFC and the afc or just more than one team.

[Fritsch_the_cat]

I came into the world about the same time the Cowboys did, so I've been a fan since I was old enough to know what a football game is.

[The Natural]

Since conception

My papa is a diehard Cowboys fan. As a youth I witnessed the post superbowl era, the '97-98 is probably the first year I have any recollection. My mother is a diehard Eagles fan (imagine our house on Sundays). So I had two choices and two choices only, 21 years in I can say I lost either way.

[DallasDW00ds0n]

1992 got a Cowboys snapback hat, I was in second grade and I just watched Emmitt rip and tear apart my dads Giants. I was in love.

[SilverStarCowboy]

vs Greenbay 1975...Loss 19 to 17.

[TwoDeep3]

My father worked with a guy who at one time played guard for the Cleveland. His name was Don Goss. He was traded to the Giants, but he had a blown out knee. Evidently the system was different because the Giants had to take him.

His brother played pro baseball and somehow got into being an NFL referee.

Cool side note, the ref brought me a football that Namath threw to Don Maynard in a game. Naturally that became the official football of the sandlot games for several years. Have no clue where it ended up.

My father took me to a Dallas Texans game. I was pretty stoked about going to my first sporting event.

So once the Cowboys became a franchise my father started taking me to games.

I attended the first game against the Steelers.

Back then kids could sit in the end zones for 1 dollar.

[Lonestar94]

All the people who grew up in Texas and their family was cowboys fans - true fan

Others who grew up across the country and parents were not cowboy fans - bandwagon fan