What was your worst year to be a Cowboys Fan?

charron · Apr 9, 2020

2020 when they gave Dak 30 + million a year.

StarBoyz83 · Apr 9, 2020

Last year wasnt the worst but it was really weird I really couldn't get into it last season. Like they started good because they played weak teams but it's like I knew something was coming after the jets game I already knew the season was done.

unionjack8 · Apr 9, 2020

JoeKing said:
LOL, your hate for JG has blinded you from the Campo seasons. That was nothing but a black hole of despair.

He had very little talent to work with. The great players from our glory days had gone and Jerry's drafting was still terrible.
Nobody expected anything from the Campo years, but Garrett? Multiple HOF players wasted, perennial all pros and pro bowlers abound. Wasted. All of it.

Big_D · Apr 9, 2020

2011. The year jerry decided to keep the clown show rolling. Who knew that would last a decade? Makes that decision even worse.

JoeKing · Apr 9, 2020

unionjack8 said:
He had very little talent to work with. The great players from our glory days had gone and Jerry's drafting was still terrible.
Nobody expected anything from the Campo years, but Garrett? Multiple HOF players wasted, perennial all pros and pro bowlers abound. Wasted. All of it.

That's your own fault for getting your hopes up with Garrett head coaching. Take responsibility for your own emotions. lol

LowTech · Apr 10, 2020

1989........ it was like everything I had known all my life, ended.

Kwyn · Apr 10, 2020

Jumbo075 said:
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.

3/13 in 88 for me as well. The entire organization was old and tired and clearly exhausted after so many years of greatness.

Not knowing what was coming it was hard to see much hope.

thinngs changed pretty quick though!

Star Guard_31 · Apr 10, 2020

1999 was an all-time low for me. That was our last best chance.

Don't get me wrong...the Campo years were rough, but to me, disappointment is a product of expectations, and it was hard to have any real expectations with the QB carousel of Tony Banks, Quincy Carter, Client Stoerner, Ryan Leaf, and Chad Hutchinson.

Watching the 90s dynasty collapse along with Michael Irvin on the Veterans Stadium turf was a hard pill to swallow. Especially after the hope that Rocket Ismail's arrival had provided.

It's easy to forget that our offense was every bit as potent as the Rams "greatest show on turf" up until that point, with both the Cowboys and Rams scoring 100 points during the first month of that season. The dynasty ended along with Irvin's career.

noshame · Apr 10, 2020

JoeKing said:
Wrong, Red did something while Campos did nothing. Red had teams in certain seasons that played every bit as hard for him as Campos teams did for him. The 2014 and 2016 teams were amazing for Red so stop acting like it was all bad when Red was around. Campos was 5-11 3 years in a row and we had absolutely no hope in those days no matter how hard they played.

Enough said.

robertfchew · Apr 10, 2020

sean10mm said:
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.

I was at that 9er game that will probably be one of the best i'll ever see in person.

DuncanIso · Apr 10, 2020

charron said:
2020 when they gave Dak 30 + million a year.

1988.

2015 close tie.

unionjack8 · Apr 10, 2020

JoeKing said:
That's your own fault for getting your hopes up with Garrett head coaching. Take responsibility for your own emotions. lol

This is true, and we wonder why there was so much pessimism......

Montanalo · Apr 10, 2020

Any year with Campo as HC

SteveTheCowboy · Apr 10, 2020

Been a fan for 45 years or better. I must say...2019. I had such high hopes, enthusiasm. We started off so well. We leveled off and did a hard crash, face planted ourselves....a what do you call curb stomped ourselves? . . Against not very good teams. Sickening!

jazzcat22 · Apr 10, 2020

Easy to say 1988 or 1989. If you account for the entire season. And not just how seasons ended, such as that stupid catch if SF.
1988 after it set in, this team needs help, and a lot of it. Then knowing if we keep losing we will be able to draft Aikman. So, not so bad.
1989, we ere was bad team that needed a lot of talent, but we had Troy, Michael, and a lot of draft picks. So with low expectations, it was not really a year I consider the worst for me.

So it actually was 2010. Team was winning, and was in the playoffs 3 or 4 years, winning the division twice. SB was to be player at Jerry World. Then boom, they collapsed under Wade and went 1-7, Then Garret takes over. Then my 2 most hated teams play the SB in our house. Then a freak winter storm hits, and the NFL screwed up on some seating structure, and of course Jerry got the blame (as it was the NFL that taken over all of that per their rules). And Jerry has not tried to get a SB back here since.

BigStar · Apr 10, 2020

9/8/02
We lost to the Texans in the their inaugural game :thumbdown:

Was hard going to school the next day in Skins territory...still rocked my Emmitt jersey!

DuncanIso · Apr 10, 2020

jazzcat22 said:
Easy to say 1988 or 1989. If you account for the entire season. And not just how seasons ended, such as that stupid catch if SF.
1988 after it set in, this team needs help, and a lot of it. Then knowing if we keep losing we will be able to draft Aikman. So, not so bad.
1989, we ere was bad team that needed a lot of talent, but we had Troy, Michael, and a lot of draft picks. So with low expectations, it was not really a year I consider the worst for me.

So it actually was 2010. Team was winning, and was in the playoffs 3 or 4 years, winning the division twice. SB was to be player at Jerry World. Then boom, they collapsed under Wade and went 1-7, Then Garret takes over. Then my 2 most hated teams play the SB in our house. Then a freak winter storm hits, and the NFL screwed up on some seating structure, and of course Jerry got the blame (as it was the NFL that taken over all of that per their rules). And Jerry has not tried to get a SB back here since.

The ownership change in the mid 80s killed us.

jazzcat22 · Apr 10, 2020

DuncanIso said:
The ownership change in the mid 80s killed us.

Yeah, except for the trade, which the owner had nothing to do with. That brought us Herschel Walker. In 1985 we got a 5th round pick from Houston and selected Walker, though knowing he was going into the USFL. But Schramm gambled and knew the new league would probably fold. And back then a 5th round pick meant more than what they do today, as far as getting decent player. As there were 12 rounds in the draft.

Little did anyone know, that 5th round pick brought us 12 draft picks and several players and 3 SB's.

GMO415 · Apr 10, 2020

1-15 had it's moments

DAL1180 · Apr 10, 2020

dckid said:
Great question. The first Cowboy game i can remember is Monday night Dallas won 31-30, 1983. Having seen the Cowboys get blown out by the bears in 85, 87 &88 Landry's demise.
89 going 1-15, others have mentioned Campo, Switzer, etc, etc
My worst year was when Jerry let Jimmy leave in the winter of 1994. Bar none that was the worst moment. Doesn't seem right that after back to back SB's that 1994 would be the worst but the fact is that is the 25 year curse we are living in.

1994 for me as well.

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