Troy Aikman: Cowboys never had loud home crowds; a lot of Dallas fans go 'to be seen'

[jazzcat22]

For years there was no tailgating at Texas stadium.
When Jerry bought the cowboys he changed that, but can't remember what year. And then the city of Irving limited it to certain parking lots. People just couldn't set up and tail gate wherever they wanted.

Maybe it's like that at other stadiums, but does not seem like it. So you don't get the tanked up loud fans right away being loud.

Not saying this is the main reason, but it contributes to the problem.

At the new stadium, it's also limited, you can only set up to tailgate on the perimeters on the lots.
At least for cooking food. Again I believe this is the city of Arlington controlling this.

So you can't get the party crowd loud atmosphere at the beginning of the games, and unless you want to spend $9 a beer and drink them fast to get in that rowdy crowd mood. it's just not going to happen, if you want that atmosphere. Which seems we never have that loud endzone crowd either.

They just sit there on their phones and ipads.

[erod]

I have ranted on about this plenty. Out is aggravating.

But I think out mostly reflects the complete lack of confidence, and frankly embarrassment, that Cowboy fans feel over the incompetence of the Jethro Clampett in charge.

He's the albatross hanging in the stadium.

[DandyDon1722]

It's amazing the difference in Cowboy fans on the road and at home. I have personally seen us take over stadiums in San Diego, San Francisco, Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa and Atlanta.

I know we have great fan bases in DC and NY, Phoenix and KC and I also know everyplace else there are always a lot of Cowboy fans. Hell, I was at the famous Buffalo game a few years ago and was blown away by the amount of fans from Canada who were there.

The road games are great because the fans of both teams are so amped up trying to outdo each other.

Sad to say but give me a game in San Diego over Cowboy stadium any day.

[Warick]

They were talking about this on "The Fan" this morning, and one of the Ravens players they interviewed talked about their success at home, and how much the fans are a big part of that. The team feeds off of their energy, and it gives them that extra motivation to play well, and keep the fans in the game. Following that, one of the radio hosts said he had a friend that doesn't go to NFL games often, but he went to a game in Denver recently, and couldn't believe the difference in crowd noise vs. Cowboys stadium.

With all of the recent coverage over this, including Aikman's comments, maybe this will serve as a wakeup call to the fans to pick things up a notch or 20 at the games... maybe.

[MoClaiborne24]

Originally Posted by juck

http://deadspin.com/5950919/troy-aik...f-bandwagoners

From the Article: Aikman's not the first of the Triplets to throw out the "bandwagoner" accusation, so it's probably got to sting for Cowboys fans hearing it.

It shouldn't sting if one is not a "bandwagoner."