Why are we even fans of this franchise

Whirlwin said:

For me it started from the beginning. How can I not love the star and what it represented. Roger Staubach. Talk about character. Bob Lily. Jason Witten, Sean Lee, so many in between it’s hard to remember them all. People don’t like Jalen Smith. I think he’s one of the reasonsI still like this franchise. Prescott. Yes character. That’s what it means to be America’s team. In my opinion. So even though I don’t believe in the Jones family. I still believe in the star. Go cowboys

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Typhus said:

I grew up in San Antonio, we used to play football on the hot asphalt streets, bare foot some times,,, depending on how fast you could find your shoes or not when a game was being declared.
Those were the best days of my life, in 110 degree blistering heat and running down the side of a street like it was a sideline, and emulating your heros like Preston Pearson, TD, even Golden Richards...
Best days ever brothers.... and sisters.

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daboyzruleperiod said:

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MaineBoy said:

See here is the problem: many of us became fans when the Cowboys were the premier football organization in the NFL at every level. We had the most modern scouting system using stats, Tom Landry and then Jimmy as head coaches with lots of good assistant coaches. We had fantastic players on offense, defense, and special teams at the same time. We had ownership that allowed this all to happen. We were a great organization and testimony to that is all the winning seasons, playoff appearances, and Super Bowls. Unfortunately, everything I just said stopped after Jimmy left (that last Super Bowl was Jimmy’s team and they won in spite of Jerry and Switzer (just ask Aikman or Moose or…).
Jerry took over coaching and assistant coaching hires, drafting players, negotiating contracts, etc…I hope we can all agree our playoff appearances and championships record the last 25 years under Jerry is awful compared to the great days. So those of us spoiled by the great old days see many negative issues everywhere we look nowadays: joke coaching hires by Jerry, some bad drafting, bad contracts, etc… Yes, enough good things happen to keep us from having losing seasons every year BUT BY GOD, the measuring stick for us used to be Super Bowls because it was a given we would have a winning season and make deep playoff runs…and appear in Super Bowls and also win them too. Change teams ? Hell, I grew up in Maine so it should have been the easiest thing in the world for me to change to the patriots. Except for the blue stuff that drips out when I cut myself shaving. This is not a flame at any fans or folks here, just an attempt by an old timer to offer his experience.

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Ranching said:

Does Maine have football?

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MaineBoy said:

Lol....kind of, the U of Maine has a team but they are average to below because hockey gets the best athletes and kids grow up playing hockey. The U of M hockey team is usually good and makes the playoffs and won 2 ncaa championships.

back to football; I went to the U of N.H which had a surprisingly great football program and had a LB on their team who became a DALLAS COWBOY. His name was Bruce Heather, played couple of years as back-up and special teams. He recovered a fumble in our Super Bowl against Denver I think. I was in heaven. I was having a beer with buds in a bar during this time and a guy at the table who knew a friend of Bruce Heathers said Heathers agent told him whenever he recovered a loose ball to stay down on the field a bit like he was shaken up in order to get more camera time and air time....who knows. And Chip Kelly was U.N.H offensive coordinator who broke records there before moving on,

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Aerolithe_Lion said:

I became interested in the franchise because of what happened 2011-2013.

Going into the last game of the season 3 consecutive seasons with an 8-7 record and the division championship on the line AND playing The other team contending for the division in week 17 of all 3 years AND losing all 3 games to lose the division and finish at the exact same 8-8 record AND to have it against each of the 3 divisional rival back to back to back is the most impossibly unlikely event in the history of the nfl. It required perfect precision from the schedulemakers, Cowboys staying exactly the same, the GM, the players, the coaches, even opponent teams to be exactly what Dallas needed for 8-8.

Nothing in NFL history is as crazy as that. It’s still unfathomable a decade later. This is when I began to realize stuff like this isn’t uncommon to this franchise, they are bizarrity-incarnate. Every team has skeletons, and every team goofs up. Pittsburgh, GB, SF, even NE. But Josh Brent’s unfortunate event, Greg Hardy’s support, Jay Ratliff’s free ride, Terrell Owens’s crying press conferences, David Irving’s “retirement”, Randy Gregory’s career game log, the Romo Cabo trip, suspensions every offseason, arrests every offseason… these are things that don’t happen this often to any other franchise. Dallas isn’t cursed, they harbor a Jersey Shore atmosphere and it pays off for them (if you want to call it that). Dak Prescott is the only franchise QB I’ve EVER heard of that the team said they need to resign him above all else and still wouldn’t do it for 2 years. They let him hit franchise tag(s) even though they said they’d make sure he was a Cowboy for the long term. That happens to other teams, but not at QB. Never at QB. There’s no question he got way more money because you waited so long to do something you said you were going to do in 2017. Dallas is so weird.

I am 100% an Eagles fan, and I don’t hate the Cowboys or any team. But if I were ranking my preferred, Dallas would be in the 30’s.

For that reason, this may not seem like my favorite place to be on the NFL internet, but for prior reasons it’s by far the most entertaining. I love when Dallas is called America’s Team, because I totally agree. But for very different reasons than initially intended. And the best part is a huge conglomerate of fans think what happens in Dallas is the same that happens every where else. It’s great. Dak Prescott is a perfect example: very few fans here believe what he’s done on the field reflects who he is as a QB. It either implies he’s way better than he’s shown, or way worse than he’s shown. Defense and Zeke have made him not reach his full potential, or defense and Zeke are the reason he’s deceptively better than he is. You don’t find this silliness ANYWHERE else. Tennessee fans do or dont like Tannehill for who he is, Packer fans do or don’t like A-rod for who he is. It’s highly entertaining.

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Mannix said:

------I wish I could dump this team for good but they're just "my" team.

No S.....me too!!!!!

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Risen Star said:

There is absolutely no difference between the fan bases. Homers, haters and those worth reading. Your holier that thou attitude disgusts me.

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Whirlwin said:

I’m a Notre Dame fan

I am I Notre Dame fan. Yes I like Jaylin. He would be better with better players around him. But wouldn’t everybody. I don’t think he’s as bad as everybody wants him to be

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Whirlwin said:

For me it started from the beginning. How can I not love the star and what it represented. Roger Staubach. Talk about character. Bob Lily. Jason Witten, Sean Lee, so many in between it’s hard to remember them all. People don’t like Jalen Smith. I think he’s one of the reasonsI still like this franchise. Prescott. Yes character. That’s what it means to be America’s team. In my opinion. So even though I don’t believe in the Jones family. I still believe in the star. Go cowboys

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Captain-Crash said:

Jason Garrett almost ended my fandom.

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