If you're going to be a fan then the owner should care about the product on the field. You don't keep a garbage coach for over a decade while continuing to waste talent. Even bad teams don't do that. Fans are supposed to care no matter what Jerry does or doesn't do? It's a lopsided proposition and that's the problem. This isn't about winning, it's about hope. You don't always win, but that hope every September should always be there. Read the thread again. Fans are tired. Even if they do stick around. I expect management to actually care more than the fans do but you see absolutely no sense of urgency there.
Fandom is a lopsided proposition. It will always be a lopsided proposition. It isn't based on whether the owner or players care. It isn't based on whether the team is any good.
The word fan is shortened from fanatic, which means that you are "filled with excessive and single-minded zeal" or you're a "person whose enthusiasm or zeal for something is extreme or beyond normal limits."
If this description does not fit you, then you are not a Dallas Cowboys football fan. You may like the team or even follow the team regularly, but you are not truly by description a fan. I'm not saying that to be harsh, but I think sometimes we get being a follower confused with being a fan. A follower (sometimes called a casual fan, which goes against the meaning of fan) can take it or leave it.
A fan has no other choice but to take it ... even if he doesn't like everything about it. A fan can express disappointment and disgust but he still watches his team even if it's 0-16. A follower abandons the team when things are not going the way he wants.
Hope is always there for the fan, no matter the circumstances. It might be hope that something will change the next season, but it's still hope. For the follower, hope is only there when it seems reasonable.
Fans can grow tired, but they will always stick around because this is their team. Followers move on when they grow tired because they don't really know what being a fan entails.
I care that we have a garbage coach, a meddling owner who needs to hire a GM, etc., but the Dallas Cowboys will always be a "we" for me and for others like me because we are fanatics.