Sucky time to be a DFW sports fan

[erod]

The Rangers look like a double-A team. The Mavs are a glorified D-League team with an owner in danger of getting his team taken from him. The Stars are an underachieving lot playing to empty home games. FC Dallas doesn't register enough yet for their successes to matter.

In the meantime, this duct-tape-and-Elmer's team we call the Dallas Cowboys carries all the hopes of the DFW sports enthusiast. As we stand today, a 7-9 caliber football team ladled in ifs and buts is the closest thing to a "beacon" we can see in these stormy waters.

Two World Series appearances and an NBA title seem like forever ago. Dirk and Beltre are in the twilight. Kidd, Terry, and Tyson are gone, as are Young, Cruz, and Kinsler. Benn is no Modano.

Meanwhile, the worst has happened. The Philadelphia Eagles finally won a Super Bowl. Yuck. The Houston Astros, with Nolan no less, won a World Series. The Rockets look poised to back that Astros championship up with another of their own. At least FC Dallas is ahead of the Dynamo by a few games, I guess.

This is the worst time ever to be a DFW sports fan.

I'm rather enjoying the Mavs implosion because I can't stand Cuban. I love my Rangers, but I'm up to here with "metrics" in baseball and today's overshifts and who-cares strikeout totals. Hockey wouldn't even be on my radar anymore if not for the return of Hitch.

So, our hopes around here lie in Jerry and his P.T. Barnum tent of circus clowns. Can't hide from the spotlight while other teams carry the local torch, not that the Cowboys ever can leave the stage in a football-dominated market.

Professional sports is broken in so many ways, and my interest in it all is waning rapidly. It doesn't help that the local participants are stuck in suck, and none of them seem close to seriously competing again.

The Cowboys offer the only glimmer of hope, and not much of a glimmer at that.

 

[OmerV]

Definitely not a high point in DFW sports, but why are the Cowboys a 7-9 caliber team? They were 9-7 last year (could have been 8/8 if Eagles played all out last game), and that was with Zeke issues all season, and included Zeke missing 6 games. I believe the Cowboys still have to be considered the #2 team in the division.

 

[hornitosmonster]

The Rangers look like a double-A team. The Mavs are a glorified D-League team with an owner in danger of getting his team taken from him. The Stars are an underachieving lot playing to empty home games. FC Dallas doesn't register enough yet for their successes to matter.

In the meantime, this duct-tape-and-Elmer's team we call the Dallas Cowboys carries all the hopes of the DFW sports enthusiast. As we stand today, a 7-9 caliber football team ladled in ifs and buts is the closest thing to a "beacon" we can see in these stormy waters.

Two World Series appearances and an NBA title seem like forever ago. Dirk and Beltre are in the twilight. Kidd, Terry, and Tyson are gone, as are Young, Cruz, and Kinsler. Benn is no Modano.

Meanwhile, the worst has happened. The Philadelphia Eagles finally won a Super Bowl. Yuck. The Houston Astros, with Nolan no less, won a World Series. The Rockets look poised to back that Astros championship up with another of their own. At least FC Dallas is ahead of the Dynamo by a few games, I guess.

This is the worst time ever to be a DFW sports fan.

I'm rather enjoying the Mavs implosion because I can't stand Cuban. I love my Rangers, but I'm up to here with "metrics" in baseball and today's overshifts and who-cares strikeout totals. Hockey wouldn't even be on my radar anymore if not for the return of Hitch.

So, our hopes around here lie in Jerry and his P.T. Barnum tent of circus clowns. Can't hide from the spotlight while other teams carry the local torch, not that the Cowboys ever can leave the stage in a football-dominated market.

Professional sports is broken in so many ways, and my interest in it all is waning rapidly. It doesn't help that the local participants are stuck in suck, and none of them seem close to seriously competing again.

The Cowboys offer the only glimmer of hope, and not much of a glimmer at that.

Very simple, turn off the TV. Seriously the remote is a great invention

 

[DoctorChicken]

Don’t watch it if it brings so much misery.

 

[TWOK11]

How is Dallas a 7-9 caliber team? We went 13-3 in 2016 and 9-7 in 2017, and would have likely finished 10-6/11-5 if not for the Elliott suspension.

Your menstruating, self-loathing diatribe aside you simply made up that little nugget.

 

[AsthmaField]

Are you OK Erod? I worry so about you.

 

[gjkoeppen]

The Rangers look like a double-A team. The Mavs are a glorified D-League team with an owner in danger of getting his team taken from him. The Stars are an underachieving lot playing to empty home games. FC Dallas doesn't register enough yet for their successes to matter.

In the meantime, this duct-tape-and-Elmer's team we call the Dallas Cowboys carries all the hopes of the DFW sports enthusiast. As we stand today, a 7-9 caliber football team ladled in ifs and buts is the closest thing to a "beacon" we can see in these stormy waters.

Two World Series appearances and an NBA title seem like forever ago. Dirk and Beltre are in the twilight. Kidd, Terry, and Tyson are gone, as are Young, Cruz, and Kinsler. Benn is no Modano.

Meanwhile, the worst has happened. The Philadelphia Eagles finally won a Super Bowl. Yuck. The Houston Astros, with Nolan no less, won a World Series. The Rockets look poised to back that Astros championship up with another of their own. At least FC Dallas is ahead of the Dynamo by a few games, I guess.

This is the worst time ever to be a DFW sports fan.

I'm rather enjoying the Mavs implosion because I can't stand Cuban. I love my Rangers, but I'm up to here with "metrics" in baseball and today's overshifts and who-cares strikeout totals. Hockey wouldn't even be on my radar anymore if not for the return of Hitch.

So, our hopes around here lie in Jerry and his P.T. Barnum tent of circus clowns. Can't hide from the spotlight while other teams carry the local torch, not that the Cowboys ever can leave the stage in a football-dominated market.

Professional sports is broken in so many ways, and my interest in it all is waning rapidly. It doesn't help that the local participants are stuck in suck, and none of them seem close to seriously competing again.

The Cowboys offer the only glimmer of hope, and not much of a glimmer at that.

Easy cure - Don't watch anymore and admit you're just a fair weather fan. It's easy to be a fan when your team(s) are winning, but we also get to see just how much of a fan people are when your team(s) aren't winning. The later is much harder but it's also very telling.
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[John813]

Stars lost 8 straight to be kicked out the playoffs iirc, probably why it's a ghost town now.

 

[Texasfootball21]

Check out the NASCAR race this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. Might cheer you up...

 

[Longboysfan]

Check out the NASCAR race this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. Might cheer you up...

Dam. I live up there.

Have to watch out for the traffic.

 

[jazzcat22]

This was the first time since 1990 that all 4 major teams in the DFW area that has not made the playoffs. And the Stars moved here from Minnesota for that 1990 season.
All the years from then until this past season. at least one team made the playoffs.

 

[maryquality]

Well, I'm a Houston Astros fan, so life is good.

 

[erod]

Check out the NASCAR race this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. Might cheer you up...

Not a Nascar fan particularly.

Even that has vastly waned. They don't even sell the back stretch of seating anymore.

 

[CouchCoach]

It has always been this way, the Cowboys rule DFW with only a few bounces from the other teams with the Stars being welcomed to Dallas and getting the Cup, the Mavs finally make it and get dismantled and the Rangers are at best, occasional bridesmaids and of all the Cowboys fans I ever met, few were Ranger fans. Either they got tired of the post All Star meltdowns as I did or they root for their childhood team from another land and time. It's a melting pot with few natives so quite a few bring their fandom with them.

I am not sure how prevalent rooting for the home team is and to adopt the home team, one needs to like it. With all of the crap that swirls around this team and too much of it not relevant to the field, I don't know why someone would adopt it unless they just need a new team.

Personally, I have left all sports behind except football and I find my NFL interest in steady decline. It is harder to just get lost in a game and leave the real world behind and all of the crap that they have allowed to creep into the sport causes me to redefine why I am a fan. I am tired of the greedy players and owners, the showboating just making a football play that is expected but most of all the stop downs have worn on me and my patience level has fallen and I find myself forcing myself to stay in it through Pick 6 leagues, DFS and Squares leagues and I am losing ground.

And for the first time that I can recall, I wasn't excited for the opening game. The national game against a division team that has owned us on our own field and I just watched it. No emotion, no fidgeting in my seat out of being nervous, no holding my breath as the ball is kicked off and worst of all, no special food or drink and that isn't acceptable, that has always been part of it for me.

I am older than most here so maybe that's it, I am just out growing the sport but I do not think that is it because my excitement level for other things such as new music or a new movie still gets me jazzed. No, I think it is simply that they've been taking away pieces of the game season after season so that this is no longer looking familiar and friendly to me. I am dumping all of the forced interest this season and will dramatically reduce any NFL viewing other than the Cowboys and that is just as much to stay in tune here and post with y'all. Piece by piece the NFL took my passion for the NFL as the owner has done his best to take my passion for my team and has successfully sent the message "the Dallas Cowboys are not my team, they are his". I didn't use to feel that way but now I feel that it will eventually be me remembering 'that used to be my team'.

 

[RJ_MacReady]

Well, listening to some Cowboys fans *****ing and moaning 24/7 on this forum....who’s to say they deserve any better results?

 

[SoupcanSam]

I see why Dallas could be a 7-9 team. We found out slowly but surely last season that this team ain't **** without zeke. The bad coaching also doesn't help matters.

If zeke goes down the cowboys are done plain and simple. We don't know that he will last a whole season and that's pending injury, another suspension etc.

Don't sit up here and talk that jazz as if you guys know for sure Dallas will keep it rolling if their main guy is missing in action.

Why should I think any different with the same coaches and Dallas probable plans to lean on zeke yet again with no backup plan if disaster strikes?

YES, dispite what happened 2 years ago and last season, Dallas still has the potential to be a 7-9 team or worse until proven otherwise.

 

[CouchCoach]

Well, I'm a Houston Astros fan, so life is good.

I was last Series unlike any team before and it reminded me of how I felt the night they reopened the Superdome and something was right in this world.

 

[blueblood70]

Definitely not a high point in DFW sports, but why are the Cowboys a 7-9 caliber team? They were 9-7 last year (could have been 8/8 if Eagles played all out last game), and that was with Zeke issues all season, and included Zeke missing 6 games. I believe the Cowboys still have to be considered the #2 team in the division.

exactly i believe we are a 10-12 win season next year and back in playoffs..but i truly understand the DFW sports comment..its very sad especially when your arch rivals like Astros and Eagles and Villanova are winning championships..lol yes i threw that team in because they are in Philly, just stings to see those loser fans having all the glory..#*********

 

[Diehardblues]

While Pro sports are down the colleges are doing well for them.

TCU and SMU were both in the NCAA tournament . A rare occurrence.

TCU football has been good in recent years. They have a huge game at Jerryworld this fall against Ohio State I’m attending.

 

[blueblood70]

The Rangers look like a double-A team. The Mavs are a glorified D-League team with an owner in danger of getting his team taken from him. The Stars are an underachieving lot playing to empty home games. FC Dallas doesn't register enough yet for their successes to matter.

In the meantime, this duct-tape-and-Elmer's team we call the Dallas Cowboys carries all the hopes of the DFW sports enthusiast. As we stand today, a 7-9 caliber football team ladled in ifs and buts is the closest thing to a "beacon" we can see in these stormy waters.

Two World Series appearances and an NBA title seem like forever ago. Dirk and Beltre are in the twilight. Kidd, Terry, and Tyson are gone, as are Young, Cruz, and Kinsler. Benn is no Modano.

Meanwhile, the worst has happened. The Philadelphia Eagles finally won a Super Bowl. Yuck. The Houston Astros, with Nolan no less, won a World Series. The Rockets look poised to back that Astros championship up with another of their own. At least FC Dallas is ahead of the Dynamo by a few games, I guess.

This is the worst time ever to be a DFW sports fan.

I'm rather enjoying the Mavs implosion because I can't stand Cuban. I love my Rangers, but I'm up to here with "metrics" in baseball and today's overshifts and who-cares strikeout totals. Hockey wouldn't even be on my radar anymore if not for the return of Hitch.

So, our hopes around here lie in Jerry and his P.T. Barnum tent of circus clowns. Can't hide from the spotlight while other teams carry the local torch, not that the Cowboys ever can leave the stage in a football-dominated market.

Professional sports is broken in so many ways, and my interest in it all is waning rapidly. It doesn't help that the local participants are stuck in suck, and none of them seem close to seriously competing again.

The Cowboys offer the only glimmer of hope, and not much of a glimmer at that.