How/When did you become a Cowboys fan?

[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?

[percyhoward]

When: the last game of the 1975 preseason

Where: Texas Stadium, Irving

Why: Staubach to Pearson to beat the Steelers

I was a Dolphins fan when I walked into the stadium that night, but left a Cowboys fan.

[5Stars]

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?

Yeah, I saw the games on the radio.

I've been a fan since the day the Cowboys became a team. I used to get The Dallas Cowboys Weekly (i think that's what it was called) mailed to me every week.

The first Cowboys Superbowl I got the Cowboys Weekly newspaper, framed it under glass after I carefully read every word of it. I have since lost it and have no clue to where it is to this day.

I have been to Texas Stadium 12 times to see the Cowboys live.

[da_whiz_kid]

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?

My father was a cowboy fan. I just followed in his steps. Believe it or not I do remember the super bowl year and our win in '95.

And I become really interested and followed the team and roster moves when I was 14, so in 2000. I'm from Fresno, Ca.

[Aven8]

Originally Posted by 5Stars

Yeah, I saw the games on the radio.

I've been a fan since the day the Cowboys became a team. I used to get The Dallas Cowboys Weekly (i think that's what it was called) mailed to me every week.

The first Cowboys Superbowl I got the Cowboys Weekly newspaper, framed it under glass after I carefully read every word of it. I have since lost it and have no clue to where it is to this day.

I have been to Texas Stadium 12 times to see the Cowboys live.

I'm older as well. I love listening to the game on the radio. A good analyst can describe the whole scene as if you were there.

Lived in TX my whole life and DFW now for the past 22 years and have only been to one game! The game? MNF when Parcells benched Bledsoe at halftime and its been Romo ever since. I can remember using the restroom at halftime and started a chant Romo, Romo, Romo and some guys started in with me. Then I walk to my seat and the crowd went nuts when # 9 came running onto the field!

[Kilyin]

In the 80s.

I grew up on Danny White and Tom Landry. My father and older brother were Redskins fans and my dad especially hated the Cowboys.

I liked the Cowboys uniforms and my mom kind of encouraged it when she found that out, even though she couldn't care less about football. She bought me a Cowboys shirt or jacket (I can't remember which) and I was hooked.

[bouttime]

I was born in Dallas. I remember watching...get this...Don Meredith, Bob Hayes, Staubauch, Dorsett, Newhouse, Hollywood Henderson, Randy White, Harvey Martin, The Triplets and so on. I live in Upstate New York now & people ask me why I'm a Cowboy fan??? Really???

[Ultimategamer5567]

I was six during the Chan Gailey era. Never had the chance to see the Dynasty squad.

[bouttime]

Originally Posted by Ultimategamer5567

I was six during the Chan Gailey era. Never had the chance to see the Dynasty squad.

Which one ??

[5Stars]

Originally Posted by Aven8

I'm older as well. I love listening to the game on the radio. A good analyst can describe the whole scene as if you were there.

Lived in TX my whole life and DFW now for the past 22 years and have only been to one game! The game? MNF when Parcells benched Bledsoe at halftime and its been Romo ever since. I can remember using the restroom at halftime and started a chant Romo, Romo, Romo and some guys started in with me. Then I walk to my seat and the crowd went nuts when # 9 came running onto the field!

WTH!

Bro, I had to drive from Albuquerque to Dallas, 12 hours straight, both ways!

And you live there, and have just gone to one game?

You are so on my ignore list!

[SDCowboy85]

Being as I'm not from Texas, I was drawn to the team because I liked the uniforms as a little kid. I was in the 2nd grade, had to have a Troy Aikman poster in '92 and have stuck with the team ever since.

[Ultimategamer5567]

Originally Posted by bouttime

Which one ??

The 90s squad. I became a fan in 98.

[5Stars]

Originally Posted by SDCowboy85

Being as I'm not from Texas, I was drawn to the team because I liked the uniforms as a little kid. I was in the 2nd grade, had to have a Troy Aikman poster in '92 and have stuck with the team ever since.

You do know that a Redskin fan would not consider you a Cowboy fan because you are not from Texas, right?



(idiots)

[bouttime]

Originally Posted by Ultimategamer5567

98-99.

Young uns...Wish you could have seen Bob Hayes...and Randy White play. The game is played differently now because of players like them. Hayes is why zone defenses were invented.

[Picksix]

I grew up in NW IN, about an hour or so East of Chicago. My older brother and I used to play the electric football game with the buzzing men, and the two teams that came with it were Pittsburgh and Dallas. My brother was a big Steeler fan, so I was always Dallas. Eight years old, and I knew practically the entire roster. That year, they won SB XII, and that was it.