I don't have a choice. I am emotionally attached to this team. I could give you an autobiography and from the age of 13 it wouldn't be referenced by time. It would be referenced by whatever game the Cowboys had played at that particular point.
Also, I made a promise, an obligation if you will. I may have been young at the time but I knew many fans of other teams, some teams that didn't go to the playoffs but once in a blue moon. I was impressed that they stuck with their teams even during years of losing records. I never knew what that was like at the time. From 1970 to 1985, the Cowboys never had a losing season. I was shocked in 1974 and again in 1984 when the Cowboys missed the playoffs.
I was spoiled and I knew it. Therefore, I made a vow that I would stick with the Cowboys even during times of losing seasons. I owed them that. I mean, the first 13 years I was a fan the Cowboys played in 10 NFC championship games, winning 5 of them. They won two Super Bowls,
LOL, I figured that, after those 13 years I could handle 13 years of losing. I figured that was fair.
When Jerry bought the Cowboys and brought in Jimmy Johnson to coach I believed they could win but it would take time and it could never be on the same scale as the Landry years. At first I was very upset that they traded Walker to the Vikings, seemingly just handing them the next two or three Super Bowls but then I began to realize what Jimmy was doing. I knew he was building a competitive team but i never imagined their dominance over a 5 year period.
I thought it would last another ten years and it should have, It would have if it wasn't for the fact that they screwed everything up for reasons that were nothing short of childish. I later realized that Jimmy Johnson was not Tom Landry. He was not the type to stay and build a legacy for himself and the Cowboys.
I almost convinced myself that I could walk away, After all, it was Jerry who failed to live up to his obligation to put winning first no matter how it was perceived but I have to admit. when I saw the star, I had to sit and watch, I just couldn't walk away.
The Cowboys will always get another chance but let me make this clear,. Jerry Jones is not the Dallas Cowboys, he is only the owner and if he was a good one, nobody but Cowboy fans would know who he was, nobody would recognize his face.
After 27 years of ineptitude, Jerry Jones the GM does not deserve another chance. The fact that he is the GM is an abomination, an insult to all other NFL GM's and a constant middle finger to long time diehard Cowboy fans. He is a source of shame and embarrassment when it comes to the once great legacy of the Dallas Cowboys