What was your worst year to be a Cowboys Fan?

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How can 1989 be viewed as an all time low point when we just got a cant miss franchise QB, and had a TON of high draft picks ahead?

See 2000 for very little hope.
We went 1-15 that year I believe so it was pretty depressing. The only team we beat were the Commanders. The year before was better but we only won 3 games. Pretty much the 80's were not good except for the start of the decade.
 

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Recently, 2015.

Murray left. Dez heldout then messed up his foot. Romo broke down for good. Joseph Randle. McClain was suspended the 1st 4 games.
Ownership thought this team could still make it. Romo breaks his collarbone again. Curbstomped on Thanksgiving.
Weeden actually starting, then Cassell then Moore.
Heartbreaking OTL losses to the Saints and Philly(walkoff TDs)

The year most thought they could build onto the "stolen" 2014 season went down in flames early and kept on burning throughout the year.

Garrett still kept on
 

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Those teams were still able to win 5 games. The Cowboys weren’t starting from the ground up with a new owner and a head coach that had no NFL experience. In 89 Jimmy cleaned house including trading away his best player. All those draft picks he got for Walker didn’t guarantee anything. A couple of years earlier the Rams made a similar trade by sending Eric Dickerson to the Colts and it didn’t work out so well for them.
Simply my opinion, I was much happier as a fan with a 1 win team with hope than I was with 5 win team that had absolutely nothing going for them looking forward.
 

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Last season was the worst. That team drastically underperformed. The defense was a disgrace. It all started with Captain Cabo doing his thing and he got rewarded for it. Should have traded him.
 

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Not to be a prisoner of the moment but last season really ranks near the top. Dallas was slated to take the next step and couldn't even beat a team with a winning record (except for the Rams).
Last year was the most FRUSTRATING by a longshot.
 

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Recently, 2015.

Murray left. Dez heldout then messed up his foot. Romo broke down for good. Joseph Randle. McClain was suspended the 1st 4 games.
Ownership thought this team could still make it. Romo breaks his collarbone again. Curbstomped on Thanksgiving.
Weeden actually starting, then Cassell then Moore.
Heartbreaking OTL losses to the Saints and Philly(walkoff TDs)

The year most thought they could build onto the "stolen" 2014 season went down in flames early and kept on burning throughout the year.

Garrett still kept on
There was always a convenient excuse for Garrett.

Jerry wanted his perfect puppet.

That all aside, I had completely wiped Weeden from my memory until now. Thanks!! Lol.

Hey, I'm quite positive we would see similar play from Cooper Rush if it came down to it, and youd have thought they would have learned from the seasons lost with inept backup QBs. Apparently not.
 

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1984-1992. Moved away from Texas and didn't get to watch many games during that stretch.
 

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I think mine is the 2015 season. Fresh off of the no catch. Expectations high. 2-0 start. Romo hot we look damn good. Then the crash. Romo comes back we look like we have a shot. Romo breaks it again. Man that year stung
 

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COMBO years! the three straight seasons that we lost to each team in our division with a chance for playoffs on the line in EACH game and we lost every time. that was the absolute worst.smh
 

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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.
 

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I'm going to say 2011. Romo was playing at his absolute peak, and in week 2 had the OT win on the road with a punctured lung against a 49ers team that went 13-3 and played in the AFCCG. Witten was still in his prime and you had Dez and Murray coming on, and LAURENT ROBINSON was super good out of nowhere. Hell, Ware had one of his best seasons too with 19.5 sacks. But with Rob Ryan running the D there were constant unforced errors blowing games at critical moments, and of course that was the absolute low point of Training Wheels Garrett bumbling around the sidelines.

In many ways the 2019 season was just a carbon copy of 2011.
 

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What was your worst year as a Cowboys fan?

1988 was the first thing that came to mind for me as well. I was miserable. I even remember the 1986 season very well. We're around the same age so that's probably why. We're going through the same stuff over the years.

I still remember the last game in 1987. Besides my obvious disappointment, I wanted Dallas to win that game just for playoffs sake. Win and the Vikings are in. Lose to the Cards and the Cards are in. The Cardinals were garbage and would have been one and done. The Vikings, although they had an up and down season, had the personnel to be dangerous. They proved me right. :)
 

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Believe it or not, the 'Special Teams Draft' of 2009 was up there.

Just zapped all my energy.
 

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I'm going to say 2011. Romo was playing at his absolute peak, and in week 2 had the OT win on the road with a punctured lung against a 49ers team that went 13-3 and played in the AFCCG. Witten was still in his prime and you had Dez and Murray coming on, and LAURENT ROBINSON was super good out of nowhere. Hell, Ware had one of his best seasons too with 19.5 sacks. But with Rob Ryan running the D there were constant unforced errors blowing games at critical moments, and of course that was the absolute low point of Training Wheels Garrett bumbling around the sidelines.

In many ways the 2019 season was just a carbon copy of 2011.
Good choice. The worst is when you have the talent but squash it (that hurts more than an under talented early 2000 team not having a good record, of course there not going to have a good record).

The real stinger in the 2011 season was losing the last 3 division games to end the season, that was embarassing
 
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