I questions whether some of these posters are actually fans are just need someone to talk to. I swear, listening to some of them complain day in and day out about everything about this franchise. Like CFiH just said, masochists.
I started liking them because my stepdad at the time was a Commanders fan and I thought it was funny. I was like 5-6. My family just took it and ran with it. It worked out well because a year or two later they started the 90's dynasty. I got in at the right time.
See here is the problem: many of us became fans when the Cowboys were the premier football organization in the NFL at every level. We had the most modern scouting system using stats, Tom Landry and then Jimmy as head coaches with lots of good assistant coaches. We had fantastic players on offense, defense, and special teams at the same time. We had ownership that allowed this all to happen. We were a great organization and testimony to that is all the winning seasons, playoff appearances, and Super Bowls. Unfortunately, everything I just said stopped after Jimmy left (that last Super Bowl was Jimmy’s team and they won in spite of Jerry and Switzer (just ask Aikman or Moose or…).
Jerry took over coaching and assistant coaching hires, drafting players, negotiating contracts, etc…I hope we can all agree our playoff appearances and championships record the last 25 years under Jerry is awful compared to the great days. So those of us spoiled by the great old days see many negative issues everywhere we look nowadays: joke coaching hires by Jerry, some bad drafting, bad contracts, etc… Yes, enough good things happen to keep us from having losing seasons every year BUT BY GOD, the measuring stick for us used to be Super Bowls because it was a given we would have a winning season and make deep playoff runs…and appear in Super Bowls and also win them too. Change teams ? Hell, I grew up in Maine so it should have been the easiest thing in the world for me to change to the patriots. Except for the blue stuff that drips out when I cut myself shaving. This is not a flame at any fans or folks here, just an attempt by an old timer to offer his experience.