How/When did you become a Cowboys fan?

[lurkercowboy]

Originally Posted by burmafrd

Grew up in the midwest and of course where I was at the Bears were always on TV and always stinking as the 60's were ending and 70's were beginning.

I was 12 when SB V was played. First time I watched the whole game. I loved the Star on the Helmet and though the Boys lost (Billie Ray Smith conned the refs) from that moment on I was a Boys fan. I started the next season trying to get all the info I could get; back then there was so little outside of the yearly Football Magazines.

Local papers covered the Bears and that was it. If the game was not on TV it was not talked about.

Back then not living around Dallas and being a Boys fan was tough.

I scrimped up and got a subscription to Sports Illustrated; and that was my lifeline.

Those yearly football magazine were like gold. I would always get several of them and read them cover to cover. The only newspapers in the vending machines where I lived either covered the Redskins only (VA Pilot) or ignored the NFL (Raleigh N&O). Local TV sports rarely if ever mentioned anything about the NFL.

It was a different world back then.

[dupree89]

Thanksgiving. 1974. Staubach leaves with-I believe- a concussion. Clint "the mad bomber" Longley goes 50 yards to Drew Pearson for the game winner against the Redskins..final score 24-23. Dallas severely outplayed the Skins that day but Dallas had a large number of turnovers to keep the game close.

Back in the days where the NFL Ticket, Internet, Sports talk, etc didnt exist..it was obviously much harder to follow. Luckily, the Cowboys were often aired in my market on CBS (pre-Fox days). Days when they werent on, I would be glued to the CBS game that was aired, waiting for updates. Back then, the announcers might say something like "Dallas trails in Atlanta in the 4th Qtr but they are driving". Then, you'd get highlights from Brent Musberger, Phyliis George and Irv Cross on CBS..and of course Monday night highlights from Howard Cosell. The monthly magazine "Fooball Digest" was also key.

[lurkercowboy]

Originally Posted by dupree89

Thanksgiving. 1974. Staubach leaves with-I believe- a concussion. Clint "the mad bomber" Longley goes 50 yards to Drew Pearson for the game winner against the Redskins..final score 24-23. Dallas severely outplayed the Skins that day but Dallas had a large number of turnovers to keep the game close.

Back in the days where the NFL Ticket, Internet, Sports talk, etc didnt exist..it was obviously much harder to follow. Luckily, the Cowboys were often aired in my market on CBS (pre-Fox days). Days when they werent on, I would be glued to the CBS game that was aired, waiting for updates. Back then, the announcers might say something like "Dallas trails in Atlanta in the 4th Qtr but they are driving". Then, you'd get highlights from Brent Musberger, Phyliis George and Irv Cross on CBS..and of course Monday night highlights from Howard Cosell. The monthly magazine "Fooball Digest" was also key.

Monday Night halftime highlights were the only highlights I saw during the week. Also remember when the pregame shows were 30 minutes and were only on NBC and CBS?

[curboys]

When: the beginning of the 1966 season

Where: El Paso, Texas

Why: I was Packers fan until a childhood friend of mine told me about the Dallas Cowboys. I watched one of their games and have been hooked ever since. I've been a loyal Cowboys fan for years but from 1996 to present have been the most difficult. With the exception of the early 90's, the current Dallas Cowboys don't come close to the Tex Schramm and Tom Landry era.

[SilverStarCowboy]

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?

Not in the last 16 Seasons....thank God!

[fivetwos]

Maybe some of you fellow oldtimers can recall a really bad vibrating board game from the 1970's.

Anyway, my friend down the street had that game, and the two included teams were Pittsburgh and Dallas. Being his game and a Steelers fan, I naturally was stuck with Dallas.

Then, in that years' Super Bowl, all of my family was rooting against Dallas as they were a huge favorite against Denver. I took them on as a me-and-them-against everyone else type of thing, unaware of the success of the team.

When I started to pay closer attention beginning with the following season, what hooked me was how the offensive line would lean up in unison before the snap. No one else did anything like that.

I have no regrets regardless of what Jerry's ego is currently putting us through.

I was around way before him and intend on outliving him.

[punchnjudy]

I was real, real little...couldn't have been older than 3. I remember being drawn to the flashy uniforms and the professionally dressed, benevolent looking man in the funny hat. To a three year old's mind, they seemed like "the good guys." The Skins, Steelers, etc...they all belonged in hell, lol.

[lurkercowboy]

Originally Posted by fivetwos

Maybe some of you fellow oldtimers can recall a really bad vibrating board game from the 1970's.

Anyway, my friend down the street had that game, and the two included teams were Pittsburgh and Dallas. Being his game and a Steelers fan, I naturally was stuck with Dallas.

Then, in that years' Super Bowl, all of my family was rooting against Dallas as they were a huge favorite against Denver. I took them on as a me-and-them-against everyone else type of thing, unaware of the success of the team.

When I started to pay closer attention beginning with the following season, what hooked me was how the offensive line would lean up in unison before the snap. No one else did anything like that.

I have no regrets regardless of what Jerry's ego is currently putting us through.

I was around way before him and intend on outliving him.

Loved that game. A friend and I had all the teams and played it constantly. We would play seasons (4 games per team) and keep stats. I think Dallas won the super bowl 90% of the time.

[CowboyChris]

Originally Posted by Parche

I was born in 1985, and in 1992 or so, I had the sega genesis. I asked my uncle to buy me a soccer game, and here in Argentina, we call soccer "Fútbol" and its pronounced the same way that Football, of course. Well, my uncle went and buy me an old American Football game, and by the time, I thought it was rugby :P I was little, 7 yrs old or so. I picked the best team in the game of course, and it was one with a star, but didnt understand much of how the game should be played so I played two or three days and left it.

Years later, when I was 15 or so, a friend of mine went to the USA and brought a small football, it was a Buccaneers one. He learnt bout fooball and explained me a few rules, we watched some games on tv. Then I saw that star logo again, and followed the boys since then.

I remember watching cowboys games on tv since the last Aikmans games.

[View Full Quote]earliest i remember being a fan was the superbowl vs Denver, i was a huge Tony Dorsett and Too Tall Jones fan.

And in 2011 I fulfill one of my dreams, went to Texas and entered Cowboys Stadium. I have some photos of my trip but Im always too lazy to make a thread and upload them :P

great sig parche, that is one of my favorite albums of all time.

[PA Cowboy]

Started really watching football during the '77-'78 season. Winning SBXII got me going. Living in the D.C. area sealed it with all the pathetic, whiny, degenerate Redskin fans.

[dupree89]

Originally Posted by fivetwos

Maybe some of you fellow oldtimers can recall a really bad vibrating board game from the 1970's.

Absolutely had the electric football game. We kept losing the little football.
After electric football, we graduated to APBA football and also Strat O Matic. They were much better as each team actually played to the level of the previous year's stats. With APBA, you really got a sense of strengths/weaknesses of not only each team, but also each player. Taking over at your own 15 YL and trying to drive 85 yards against the Steelers "D" was nearly impossible. Those games were where I first learned exactly how key it was sometimes to just play the "field position" game.

[ifixoldhouses]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgFZIS_a3CE

I remember that game I was a fan of the NFL as a whole till I was 18 and lived in Dallas for awhile with my Aunt in 1989, and started following the Cowboys, plus I was born in 1971 first superbowl win. I also have always hated the Redskins, I lived in DC for 6 years while Theismann, Riggins were there.

[Skerr41]

In 1977, at the tender age of 6, I found a Dallas Cowboys comic book. Quite a miracle really, as I live in Australia. I was a fan from that moment on.

[Parche]

Originally Posted by CowboyChris

great sig parche, that is one of my favorite albums of all time.

Thanks!!! Im more a Megadeth fan than a Iron Maiden, but some of their albums are awsome... and youre right, thats one of em.

[Hopeuhavechange]

Over Christmas my family and I were discussing this very issue. Although I don't quite recall myself, I have to say, my Mother informed me that beginning about age 4 or 5, whilst living in Oklahoma at the time, for all Cowboys games I would dress up in cowboy regalia- not football uniforms but cowboy hat, bandanna, boots, holster, (govt approved) pistol and the whole bit.

In OK city, the Cowboys were/are sort of the home team. Besides I was born in Texas, and we traveled there a lot and knew we'd return one day. So I come by my Cowboys team loyalty honestly. She also said something about me sitting my favorite rocking chair 3 feet from the TV, and that I wouldn't let anybody in the room during a game, and would fire my gun each time the Cowboys scored. (It likely was a cork gun. I did retain a silver one for several yrs) FYI: I still get all gussied up in cowboy garb to this day every Sunday. Some things just don't change.