It's not my team anymore

[JBS]

It’s called growing up

 

[MWH1967]

I should not know more than they do, but it's hard not to.

For instance, no matter the hoopla and no matter how many scouts and fans bought into it, Mo Claiborne's skillset did not support him being a top 10 pick.

Nor did his mentality. Yep, i said it.

 

[fivetwos]

Yep, I know it's not realistic to be great every year, but even when we have great teams we crap the bed.
With the culture Jerry has created here, we are never going to win big.
When has this team ever overachieved in the last 27 years???

The tough part is two of the most successful seasons in franchise history, 2007 and 2016, ended with choking the one seed, which hurt even more than a losing season.

Then they could never build on that. Each good season followed by a bad one.

I'm fully convinced that Jerry Jones wants to coach the team, but he can't get away with standing on the sidelines. He is fully involved in what he wants done scheme wise. He is an 80 year old ego maniac who swears he knows football.

I just hope that when he finally can't show up for work every day he lets the kid bring a real staff in here. It's our only hope and we will likely need to wait him out.

 

[CouchCoach]

From the length of that post you haven’t lost any passion for the team. You wouldn’t be here as a fan posting everyday or running this board as a moderator if you lost your passion for the team. You may not be as excited about the team as you once were but you’re still passionate about it. You’re like most Cowboys fans you’ve lost hope but you haven’t stopped caring and you can’t break away. Whether you like it or not you’re a fan for life and will continue to enjoy the wins and suffer through the losses. The way we all feel about the Cowboys at this very moment is like the old song “I hate myself for loving you.”

No, my passion is for this board just as it was on the old DC.com, this is more important to me than the team.

If not for the Zone, I doubt I would really follow the team any longer. This site is far more important to me than the team. I don't really know anyone on the team.

 

[ChronicCowboy]

I’ve only been a fan during the Jerry years but I feel the same way for different reasons.

The painful reality is that Jerry hasn’t been able to adjust to the salary cap era. And rather than replacing management like any legit franchise would do, he gives himself a raise every year and pulls out the snake oil.

The Jones family doesn’t care about the fans or winning, and obviously they’re going nowhere. That’s the realization that fundamentally changed my attitude towards the team.

 

[KJJ]

No, my passion is for this board just as it was on the old DC.com, this is more important to me than the team.

If not for the Zone, I doubt I would really follow the team any longer. This site is far more important to me than the team. I don't really know anyone on the team.

You say that but you still talk Cowboys football every day and have over 36,000 posts. It’s like someone who says they don’t really care about something but they keep talking about it. Anyone who comes here and talks Cowboys football still cares and hasn’t given up. That’s how I see it.

 

[nightrain]

Before you go saying adios, seeya wouldn't want to beya or something else along those lines, hear me out.

I have been wondering if my loss of passion for the Cowboys is just the aging process or is there something else causing that and I think I am on to it. I do not have that proprietary attachment to the Cowboys I once had.

When I became a fan, they were my team. Really MY team, I felt more than just a fan, they were mine. I had a special relationship with them and almost felt I knew them.

No owner sends the message louder or clearer that this is his team than this one. He even went so far to tell the fans if you don't like it, plop down 140M of your own money. And since then, it's only gotten worse.

Not only do he and his son spend their time telling us that this is their team but they insult my fantelligence by trying to sell their way is the way. No other owner in sports history has spent more time trying to sell lemonade and eventually it becomes an insult. Do they really think I am that stupid? Just because I am a fan?

The bragging and boastfulness of the Joneses negates any "this is my team" thinking. It's all about them.

Tex Schramm was a master marketer and he had this knack for making the Cowboy accomplishments inclusive for the fans. I can still recall the pc when he established the largest radio network in NFL history and was responsible for establishing the Dallas Cowboys as Mexico's team, as well as New Mexico and Arizona. He made it about us, the fans. He said we were the reason that happened. It was look what we did.

This detached feeling I have when I watch this team play has become the norm so it doesn't bother me as much but when I watch them play, I know I am watching someone else's team play, not mine.

I realize there is no logic or rationale attached to being a fan but that's what has happened to me, I am now a fan because I've been a fan for so long. If not for the history, I would not choose this team today.

The problem is that I do not think I will ever get that feeling back again. That this is MY team feeling. And that makes me sad because one should never outgrow their passion.

This is not a complaint thread or a bash the owner one as I do not think he did this intentionally, it just happened because he let his ego take over. And a lot of what he's been doing is trying to chase the Jimmy Johnson ghost away but along the way he took my pride of ownership of my team away from me.

it is still my favorite NFL team but it is not MY team.

I feel you, Coach. I could never latch on to another team and root for them, but my passion for the Cowboys has definitely waned over the past decade. I am starting to feel indifferent about attending games as well.

 

[tunahelper]

We are fans watching a slow train wreck. We fans can see the oncoming dangers and we scream, in order to warn everyone. Yet Jones boys have the microphone and are saying no worries everyone we have the wheel.

Jones are counting their money as they steer us further away from greatness.

 

[Whyjerry]

Before you go saying adios, seeya wouldn't want to beya or something else along those lines, hear me out.

I have been wondering if my loss of passion for the Cowboys is just the aging process or is there something else causing that and I think I am on to it. I do not have that proprietary attachment to the Cowboys I once had.

When I became a fan, they were my team. Really MY team, I felt more than just a fan, they were mine. I had a special relationship with them and almost felt I knew them.

No owner sends the message louder or clearer that this is his team than this one. He even went so far to tell the fans if you don't like it, plop down 140M of your own money. And since then, it's only gotten worse.

Not only do he and his son spend their time telling us that this is their team but they insult my fantelligence by trying to sell their way is the way. No other owner in sports history has spent more time trying to sell lemonade and eventually it becomes an insult. Do they really think I am that stupid? Just because I am a fan?

The bragging and boastfulness of the Joneses negates any "this is my team" thinking. It's all about them.

Tex Schramm was a master marketer and he had this knack for making the Cowboy accomplishments inclusive for the fans. I can still recall the pc when he established the largest radio network in NFL history and was responsible for establishing the Dallas Cowboys as Mexico's team, as well as New Mexico and Arizona. He made it about us, the fans. He said we were the reason that happened. It was look what we did.

This detached feeling I have when I watch this team play has become the norm so it doesn't bother me as much but when I watch them play, I know I am watching someone else's team play, not mine.

I realize there is no logic or rationale attached to being a fan but that's what has happened to me, I am now a fan because I've been a fan for so long. If not for the history, I would not choose this team today.

The problem is that I do not think I will ever get that feeling back again. That this is MY team feeling. And that makes me sad because one should never outgrow their passion.

This is not a complaint thread or a bash the owner one as I do not think he did this intentionally, it just happened because he let his ego take over. And a lot of what he's been doing is trying to chase the Jimmy Johnson ghost away but along the way he took my pride of ownership of my team away from me.

it is still my favorite NFL team but it is not MY team.

Anybody that mocks you for feeling like this is a moron. This team is miserable to root for. Jerry and Stephan are repugnant individuals. Period. Anyone that takes the other side of that is a moron. I am hopping on the Bills bandwagon. Anyone that doesn’t like that can you know what off.

 

[john van brocklin]

The tough part is two of the most successful seasons in franchise history, 2007 and 2016, ended with choking the one seed, which hurt even more than a losing season.

Then they could never build on that. Each good season followed by a bad one.

I'm fully convinced that Jerry Jones wants to coach the team, but he can't get away with standing on the sidelines. He is fully involved in what he wants done scheme wise. He is an 80 year old ego maniac who swears he knows football.

I just hope that when he finally can't show up for work every day he lets the kid bring a real staff in here. It's our only hope and we will likely need to wait him out.

I don't wish any ill towards Jerry, but I do hope that once he passes the reins to his children, they hire real professionals to run the team.
That's our only hope.
That, or they sell the team.

 

[john van brocklin]

Anybody that mocks you for feeling like this is a moron. This team is miserable to root for. Jerry and Stephan are repugnant individuals. Period. Anyone that takes the other side of that is a moron. I am hopping on the Bills bandwagon. Anyone that doesn’t like that can you know what off.

Don't leave us Whyjerry !
We need you !
Misery loves company !

 

[Whyjerry]

Don't leave us Whyjerry !
We need you !
Misery loves company !

I can never leave. Just rooting for the Bills. I love Buffalo’s blue collar story. I root for that part of America. Dallas is a carnival of phonies like Jerry and his sheet stack son.

 

[john van brocklin]

No, my passion is for this board just as it was on the old DC.com, this is more important to me than the team.

If not for the Zone, I doubt I would really follow the team any longer. This site is far more important to me than the team. I don't really know anyone on the team.

That's interesting!
I enjoy cutting up with fellow zoners on the game day threads almost as much as watching the games.
If it was not for this board I would be way less connected to the Cowboys.

 

[CouchCoach]

You say that but you still talk Cowboys football every day and have over 36,000 posts. It’s like someone who says they don’t really care about something but they keep talking about it. Anyone who comes here and talks Cowboys football still cares and hasn’t given up. That’s how I see it.

I did not say I had given up as I am still a fan. They are still my favorite team.

 

[Whyjerry]

That's interesting!
I enjoy cutting up with fellow zoners on the game day threads almost as much as watching the games.
If it was not for this board I would be way less connected to the Cowboys.

Yeah brother. Battle hard!!!!

 

[john van brocklin]

I can never leave. Just rooting for the Bills. I love Buffalo’s blue collar story. I root for that part of America. Dallas is a carnival of phonies like Jerry and his sheet stack son.

It's become a circus, more interested in entertainment than winning football games.

 

[DUO_CORE]

This post reminds me of Van Halen's "I'll Wait" song lol.

"You've got me captured,
I'm under your spell
I guess I'll never learn
I have your picture,
yes I know it well
Another page is turned"

 

[Runwildboys]

I’ve only been a fan during the Jerry years but I feel the same way for different reasons.

The painful reality is that Jerry hasn’t been able to adjust to the salary cap era. And rather than replacing management like any legit franchise would do, he gives himself a raise every year and pulls out the snake oil.

The Jones family doesn’t care about the fans or winning, and obviously they’re going nowhere. That’s the realization that fundamentally changed my attitude towards the team.

I don't think they're (at least Jerry) apathetic toward the fans or that they don't care about winning. I think they just don't know that they don't know how to field a winning team. Doing it their way is important to them because they actually think they know best. There's a quote I want to put on a T-shirt:

When you're dead, you don't know you're dead. It's only difficult for others. - It's the same when you're stupid.

 

[CouchCoach]

That's interesting!
I enjoy cutting up with fellow zoners on the game day threads almost as much as watching the games.
If it was not for this board I would be way less connected to the Cowboys.

Yep and I feel connected to some that are here more than the Cowboys. Some here I just discuss the game and team with and it doesn't get any deeper than that but there are some here that know more about me than some of my family.

Just like the old DC.com site. I went looking for a place to talk about the Cowboys and found so much more than that. And it is as if I was guided to these two sites because I would need that in my life very shortly.

Can't explain it without getting sappy but there are posters, people, that matter a great deal to my life here and my only regret was not leaning on them more because I surely could have used it.

I know some have a limited amount of time to hang here and some are only interested in discussing the team but if you haven't wandered into the OTZ and Members Zone, that's a good stop by, if even for a post by, when you come to this site.

That is where you find the people behind the posts and if more would do that, we would have less name calling here. Make is easier to keep in mind there is a person behind every post.

 

[KJJ]

I did not say I had given up as I am still a fan. They are still my favorite team.

You said if it wasn’t for this board you probably wouldn’t follow the team any longer. You even went as far as to say you don’t even know the players. You’re trying to distance yourself from the team but it’s obvious you still care. You’re now admitting you haven’t given up and are still a fan and they’re still your favorite team. You proved my point that you still have passion for the Cowboys. As much as you post about the team is proof enough. I’m as unhappy about the direction of this team as you are but I haven’t lost my desire to see the team succeed.