How close are you from walking away as a fan?

Don Corleone · Nov 29, 2019

I have no emotions after a win or loss. I was a very serious fan and didn’t handle losses well until the 2006 playoff loss to Seattle. Something changed with me that day. I have been a fan since 1978 and I did temporarily lose interest from 1986 to 1988. My interest is at an all time low right now. I don’t follow other pro football teams, but I do follow LSU Tigers football and that is at least a bright spot right now.

If we stick with these coaches and same cast of core players next season, I won’t be watching any longer. I’m fed up with this product.

xwalker · Nov 29, 2019

J12B said:
Or are you a fan for life, no matter what?

Anybody contemplating "walking away" was never a real fan anyway.

Hopefully you are just asking the question and NOT admitting that your are a fake fan.

foofighters · Nov 29, 2019

erod said:
I'll never change teams.

But I do care about half what I used to.

This pretty much sums up how I feel. There is no other team for me. I'd probably just stop all together than cheer on the Chargers or some other dumb team. Yesterday, the second half became background noise and as a family we did other things. My wife was super impressed that I wasn't mad. I wasn't because I just didn't care. I still love the Star. I just don't like the Jerry's Cowboys.

Alexander · Nov 29, 2019

john van brocklin said:
Well said. Feel for the young fans.
They don't really know what the tradition is all about.

The tradition now is that, well, we go 8-8 or something most of the time. We might get in the playoffs but we lose in the first round. And as we fumble about in pretend importance, we have a circus with TV ratings and relevance meaning more than winning each week.

There is literally a grown human being as a fan who has seen nothing else but this garbage for the past two decades. Overrated talent with poor coaching and a full-blast propaganda machine of optimism keeping the train moving and the profits flowing in.

PA Cowboy Fan · Nov 29, 2019

Alexander said:
Maybe for you. For me, it was hard watching Saint Tom deteriorate. But it happened. I was unsure what to expect since he was the coach for us my entire life, but I was not angry at the time. It just seemed like things were slipping away. I was young then so I got more mad at the players than I did at Landry. Then I grew up and realized that yes, there was some truth to the idea that the game was growing beyond where he could be effective. I also realized that things like talent acquisition matter. We had some terrible drafts after the Dirty Dozen. Stole Dorsett but after that, very bad.

It was pretty clear once they traded Walker that it was full rebuild. Once the trade happened, I was fine. I didn't even care. I would take that season all over again if I had hope with the bounty of picks they got. That was mildly uncomfortable, but there was at least hope. They decided they had a plan to rebuild and they went forward. Being upset with 1989 is the epitome of spoiled child syndrome.

Three consecutive Campo years? Yeah. I experienced that too. And you know what that was almost more endurable. You knew we had a bad team. The personnel was unbelievably bad because we could not handle the salary cap.

This team is far more talented than what Campo ever experienced. There have been coaching miscues and arrogance drips off this team that frankly has no right to feel that way.

I really don't get where you are going with this team-to-team thing. Who exactly is doing that?

Crazed Liotta Eyes · Nov 29, 2019

So many comments in this thread echo how I feel. I'm not walking away from this team but I just don't care like I used to. Thanks, Jerry.

Whyjerry · Nov 29, 2019

As long as I watch the NFL I will be a Cowboys fan. My devotion to the team is at an all time low though. Many things have to happen before I start to believe again.

Qcard · Nov 29, 2019

Walking away is not an option for a fan...fan is short for "fanatic" for a reason.

If you are contemplating walking away then it was just an affair.

6-6 controlling our own destiny...I am all In!

CowboyChris · Nov 29, 2019

Since the mid 70's, I grew up and rooted for the Cowboys, practically every birthday cake from 5 years old till my late teens has been a Dallas Cowboy cake of some kind. BUT... I'm not sure how long i can be a fan of the NFL. The pussification of the league in every aspect is really turning me off. You add all that to Jerry's greed for money, a Clapping Carrot for a coach, not too mention the puppet coaches before him, No true fan would have endured this long, I firmly believe that.

I used to be a diehard NASCAR fan growing up also, I used to watch every race, I used to have 2 TV's in my room when I was younger, just in case the Cowboys were playing the same time there was a race. Well, needless to say NASCAR has turned me off so bad in the last 10 years, that i don't even watch at ALL ....except maybe the Daytona 500.

Strangely, in 2001 after watching the Ravens go on a roll and rout the Giants in the Superbowl, Me and my brothers adopted the Ravens as our AFC team. So while the Cowboys are still my favorite team, I do have an AFC team that I follow almost as closely.

Corso · Nov 29, 2019

Alexander said:
I guess I have not conveyed my level of conviction adequately to you. You will not win.

But... but...

Don't make me break out the pouty-face!
No one can resist the pouty-face...

Cowboyz88 · Nov 29, 2019

Walk away…lol. What a millennial concept.

You follow your team when they're as crappy as we are now, so that when we (hopefully) reach the mountain top, again, it's that much more rewarding.

You can't appreciate the light without the darkness.

Nut up, Nancy.

Fire407 · Nov 29, 2019

I enjoy football too much. I don't get people that say they are done with the NFL and then the next week they are back complaining again about something that they saw. The Garrett years have made it tough on me as a Cowboy fan wanting them to win but also wanting him fired. Now there is a real chance that he'll be gone.

HeavyBarrel · Nov 29, 2019

As I’ve stated several times I’m a lifelong Cowboy fan from DFW but I’ve lived in the New Orleans area for the past 11 years as my wife works for the Saints and I always root for Dallas when they play them, but holy smokes the way the Saints run their team vs Jerry is night and day, nobody even knows what Mickey Loomis looks like here.....Dallas will always be my team

PA Cowboy Fan · Nov 29, 2019

CowboyChris said:
Since the mid 70's, I grew up and rooted for the Cowboys, practically every birthday cake from 5 years old till my late teens has been a Dallas Cowboy cake of some kind. BUT... I'm not sure how long i can be a fan of the NFL. The pussification of the league in every aspect is really turning me off. You add all that to Jerry's greed for money, a Clapping Carrot for a coach, not too mention the puppet coaches before him, No true fan would have endured this long, I firmly believe that.

I used to be a diehard NASCAR fan growing up also, I used to watch every race, I used to have 2 TV's in my room when I was younger, just in case the Cowboys were playing the same time there was a race. Well, needless to say NASCAR has turned me off so bad in the last 10 years, that i don't even watch at ALL ....except maybe the Daytona 500.

Strangely, in 2001 after watching the Ravens go on a roll and rout the Giants in the Superbowl, Me and my brothers adopted the Ravens as our AFC team. So while the Cowboys are still my favorite team, I do have an AFC team that I follow almost as closely.

If I had a second team it would be the Ravens. I was born in MD. It's my dad's favorite team and I can watch all their games. Plus they don't have a crazy owner and puppet coach. lol

CowboyChris · Nov 29, 2019

PA Cowboy Fan said:
If I had a second team it would be the Ravens. I was born in MD. It's my dad's favorite team and I can watch all their games. Plus they don't have a crazy owner and puppet coach. lol

with 31 other teams in the league, why not pick an AFC team? If there is one you truly like, I should root for the Texans, when Dallas isn't playing, being that I was born and raised in Texas, but they just don't do it for me.

Established1971 · Nov 29, 2019

J12B said:
Or are you a fan for life, no matter what?

yes
done with 2019 but I am a fan for life with every team I chose as a kid. Thats how it works, if you switch teams, thats a character flaw

DallasDomination · Nov 29, 2019

the Problem is the time we waste watching the games and talking about the team... time is starting to add up for me. I surely could be doing something else more productive instead of torturing myself like this.

johneric8 · Nov 29, 2019

I was once a very proud fan, but over the last 5 years I've grown embarrassed to yoak myself in union with the cowboys. I remain a follower of my team but with extreme hesitation. I really view them as more of a soap opera than a proud NFL franchise. I guess it's a good thing I watched the young and restless and general hospital sometimes with my mother as a kid.

cowboy_ron · Nov 29, 2019

J12B said:
Or are you a fan for life, no matter what?

Fan for life......that's why I get so pissed when I see results like this just because we have an owner/GM can't let go of his ego in order to fix it.

star-ving · Nov 29, 2019

Never...but definitely numbed over the years.

How close are you from walking away as a fan?

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What's it going to be then, eh?

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Offseason mode... sleepy time

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You Can't Fix Stupid

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