I'm Not Kidding, I'm Starting To Get Excited

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Tuesday the players report to Oxnard for Training Camp. Thursday they start practicing. Tweets are going to start pouring in. Articles are going to start being daily fare. Videos will make a comeback on the mother ship. Excited? Just a little bit. I don't expect to get much work done this week. Some of it will be due to lack of sleep. Some of it will be due to surfing like a crazy man.

The biggest disappointment for me heading into Camp is the loss of Sean Lee. Not going to lie to you, he is probably my 2nd favorite current Cowboys player behind Witten. I like consummate professionals. Does it amaze me that he moved ahead of Tony and Dez on my list? It does a little, but he actually did. Ware was up there in 2nd, but he's gone. That moves everyone up.

Every year injuries in Camp and Pre Season temper my enthusiasm a little. The only thing I don't want are critical injuries. It's football, and they happen. I know that, and I still get down when they do.

Why am I excited? Because I love this game. I love everything about it. The sights, the smells, the sounds. I used to love the pain of the early practices. I know how dumb that sounds, but I somehow felt more alive when those familiar aches were back. I used to get to this point in a calendar year and I wanted to put on pads and go get hit. I wanted to hit someone too, but man I wanted to get hit. I wanted to pick myself up off the ground in some kind of symbolic rebirth. I'm 50 now and I don't want that any more. I guess with age does come some wisdom.

I'm excited as hell to see the video footage of Brad Sham introducing the team. I want to see Press Conferences again, even though I acknowledge that Jason doesn't say anything. I continue to be amused at how well he plays the press. I occasionally get to be thrilled when they ask a good question and he opens up. Those moments are rare. I'm ready to even hear their bad questions. Every injured player is day to day and they will see. They hope he gets back to practice soon. Practice is important.

I wonder who will be the dinged up players this year. The same ones who always are? Someone new? It doesn't matter really. Everyone gets some time in the tub as they work their bodies back into football shape.

We as fans work ourselves back into football shape in a different way. We get our hopes back up. We start re-arranging our evening schedules. We start bringing back little used over the off season websites to our surveillance modes. This is what we are supposed to do. We're supposed to go through every gamut of emotions. We're supposed to experience highs and lows. We're back on the roller coaster. I don't know about you, but I like that a lot more than a merry go round. I'll take the highs and lows. It's what makes it all so exciting.

Football is back in just a few days. Oh how I've missed it.
 

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Tuesday the players report to Oxnard for Training Camp. Thursday they start practicing. Tweets are going to start pouring in. Articles are going to start being daily fare. Videos will make a comeback on the mother ship. Excited? Just a little bit. I don't expect to get much work done this week. Some of it will be due to lack of sleep. Some of it will be due to surfing like a crazy man.

The biggest disappointment for me heading into Camp is the loss of Sean Lee. Not going to lie to you, he is probably my 2nd favorite current Cowboys player behind Witten. I like consummate professionals. Does it amaze me that he moved ahead of Tony and Dez on my list? It does a little, but he actually did. Ware was up there in 2nd, but he's gone. That moves everyone up.

Every year injuries in Camp and Pre Season temper my enthusiasm a little. The only thing I don't want are critical injuries. It's football, and they happen. I know that, and I still get down when they do.

Why am I excited? Because I love this game. I love everything about it. The sights, the smells, the sounds. I used to love the pain of the early practices. I know how dumb that sounds, but I somehow felt more alive when those familiar aches were back. I used to get to this point in a calendar year and I wanted to put on pads and go get hit. I wanted to hit someone too, but man I wanted to get hit. I wanted to pick myself up off the ground in some kind of symbolic rebirth. I'm 50 now and I don't want that any more. I guess with age does come some wisdom.

I'm excited as hell to see the video footage of Brad Sham introducing the team. I want to see Press Conferences again, even though I acknowledge that Jason doesn't say anything. I continue to be amused at how well he plays the press. I occasionally get to be thrilled when they ask a good question and he opens up. Those moments are rare. I'm ready to even hear their bad questions. Every injured player is day to day and they will see. They hope he gets back to practice soon. Practice is important.

I wonder who will be the dinged up players this year. The same ones who always are? Someone new? It doesn't matter really. Everyone gets some time in the tub as they work their bodies back into football shape.

We as fans work ourselves back into football shape in a different way. We get our hopes back up. We start re-arranging our evening schedules. We start bringing back little used over the off season websites to our surveillance modes. This is what we are supposed to do. We're supposed to go through every gamut of emotions. We're supposed to experience highs and lows. We're back on the roller coaster. I don't know about you, but I like that a lot more than a merry go round. I'll take the highs and lows. It's what makes it all so exciting.

Football is back in just a few days. Oh how I've missed it.


Yep...get those feelings every year for a couple of months before reality comes crashing down upon me again as another
year of disappointments slaps us in the face about the middle of October.
 

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Tuesday the players report to Oxnard for Training Camp. Thursday they start practicing. Tweets are going to start pouring in. Articles are going to start being daily fare. Videos will make a comeback on the mother ship. Excited? Just a little bit. I don't expect to get much work done this week. Some of it will be due to lack of sleep. Some of it will be due to surfing like a crazy man.

The biggest disappointment for me heading into Camp is the loss of Sean Lee. Not going to lie to you, he is probably my 2nd favorite current Cowboys player behind Witten. I like consummate professionals. Does it amaze me that he moved ahead of Tony and Dez on my list? It does a little, but he actually did. Ware was up there in 2nd, but he's gone. That moves everyone up.

Every year injuries in Camp and Pre Season temper my enthusiasm a little. The only thing I don't want are critical injuries. It's football, and they happen. I know that, and I still get down when they do.

Why am I excited? Because I love this game. I love everything about it. The sights, the smells, the sounds. I used to love the pain of the early practices. I know how dumb that sounds, but I somehow felt more alive when those familiar aches were back. I used to get to this point in a calendar year and I wanted to put on pads and go get hit. I wanted to hit someone too, but man I wanted to get hit. I wanted to pick myself up off the ground in some kind of symbolic rebirth. I'm 50 now and I don't want that any more. I guess with age does come some wisdom.

I'm excited as hell to see the video footage of Brad Sham introducing the team. I want to see Press Conferences again, even though I acknowledge that Jason doesn't say anything. I continue to be amused at how well he plays the press. I occasionally get to be thrilled when they ask a good question and he opens up. Those moments are rare. I'm ready to even hear their bad questions. Every injured player is day to day and they will see. They hope he gets back to practice soon. Practice is important.

I wonder who will be the dinged up players this year. The same ones who always are? Someone new? It doesn't matter really. Everyone gets some time in the tub as they work their bodies back into football shape.

We as fans work ourselves back into football shape in a different way. We get our hopes back up. We start re-arranging our evening schedules. We start bringing back little used over the off season websites to our surveillance modes. This is what we are supposed to do. We're supposed to go through every gamut of emotions. We're supposed to experience highs and lows. We're back on the roller coaster. I don't know about you, but I like that a lot more than a merry go round. I'll take the highs and lows. It's what makes it all so exciting.

Football is back in just a few days. Oh how I've missed it.


I hear ya!

Can't help it.

No matter how many times the Cowboys let me down... hope springs eternal.
 

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I'm pumped for Fantasy Football.

I'm interested in the Cowboys but i'm not expecting much.

The process of the Pre-Season and most of the regular season have lost a lot of the thrill for me because of how we always crash and burn in the end.

I look forward to the win and in games more then anything and how teams seem to shift into another gear when trying to get into the playoffs.
 

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A fan knows why he comes back...he loves the challenge of a football on a playing field. Where team replaces statistics. Where having a heart is as important as the greatest skills. Where one can root for his team, because he has an emotional attachment with them.

Because no other justification is needed...it's football season.
 

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It all starts the next phase today. Conditioning drills, for those players that come in and participate.
Report to camp Tuesday, then rest of the conditioning drills I beleive will be Wednesday.
First practice Thursday.
Then non stop football for basically 6 months right on through the SB.
 

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Let's face it, fellas . . . life's just not quite the same without our football fix being satisfied. From the daily goings-on when training camp commences to the daily news and weekly games that occur during preseason and regular season, it's just a special time.
It's been a really long, seemingly endless wait that's just about to end in a mere 3 days now. I can't wait.
 

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Yep. Every year they pull me in.

I do think the team will be better. But what the record will be is a mystery.

One thing that very few here tend to do though, and that is a good exercise in "reality" is this:
Put your self in the shoes of fans for every other team (or maybe just a select few just to test this out) out there right now. I mean really dig in, as if it's your team. Look at all their changes from last year too. And then it gives you some pause. So many fans have an enormous number of reason to be optimistic that their teams will be better this year. And we know, record wise, that cannot happen for all of them.
 

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Put your self in the shoes of fans for every other team (or maybe just a select few just to test this out) out there right now. I mean really dig in, as if it's your team. Look at all their changes from last year too. And then it gives you some pause. So many fans have an enormous number of reason to be optimistic that their teams will be better this year. And we know, record wise, that cannot happen for all of them.

Now why would I want to go ahead and ruin my excitement like that? Ignorance is bliss, I say. :)
 
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