What was your worst year as a Cowboys fan?
Mine was 1988. In my lifetime, which started in 1965, the Cowboys had never won less than 7 games in a season, except for the strike shortened 1982 season, when they went 6-3 and made the NFL championship game for the 3rd straight season. And they had only 3 seasons of 7 wins (1965, 1986 & 1987) in that time. At the age of 23, I had witnessed 20 consecutive winning seasons from 1966-1985. The Cowboys had started 6-2 in 1986 on their way to a 21st winning season, only to crater to a 1-7 finish after Danny White was injured, and Steve Pelleur took over at Quarterback. 1986 was their first losing season since 1964, and the first I had ever witnessed.
To watch Tom Landry suffer through the humiliation of a 3-13 season in 1988 was excruciating. That was BEFORE he got fired in February 1989.
Simple........the last 25 years!!!!!!!! After watching the cowboys since '74, the excpectation was they would get back every year..........and they did........until the early 80's when they lost 3 stratight NFC championships. there you can see the team beginning to slip a little because they couldnt get over the hump any more but they kept wining and making the playoffs until......the embarassment 44-0 to bears in '85 beause the mighty cowboys and landry would be the sure test for the upstart and '46 defense bears. Well, along with landry's UGLY, Eyesore of a Plaid dress jacket on national TV (and I remember this till this day), that was the ultimate ride down from the glory years and landry himself.
Then came '88 and finally landry was gone. Yes 1-15 was rock bottom, but I was still excited for the change and you can actually see how fast and swarming the new defense was under Jimmy, but it wasnt that much longer for the new dynasty to form and the riches of the early 90's. Well...........in that time span '78-79 until '92 team TOOK almost 15 years!!!! And I thought that was such an eternity to finally wait until they turned it around again.......but if you told me back in '96 that it would be at least another 25-freaking YEARS until they would even sniff a SB let alone the NFC championship team, I would have just rolled my eyes and said you were just a cowboy hater.
Well, here we are..........25 Freaking YEARS later and having to wait 15 years previously until they won it again in '92,'93, '95; and after experiencing all those winning seasons back in 70's-80's, it is now almost like both dynasty years are some kind of folklore or fairytales of some sort.
I am embarrassed over the years for all the **** signings from T.O. to campo as coach and garrett along with greg hardy signing and all the bums jerry has brought to this team, just so HE can make a profit and wants to play the monarch.