Been a fan since 1974

[Otis313]

I’ve been a fan since1976. I was 8.
My dads side of the family were all foreskin fans and that’s all I use to hear about.
I picked the Cowboys originally just to piss them off.
There has def. been some bad years and some real good years.
I don’t let it ruin my following week like I use to after a loss. I’m over it shortly after, now.
I’ll always pull for the Cowboys regardless. I still hate all the NFC east teams, even the dam Cardinals!
Go Cowboys!

 

[Hardline]

My first conscious memory of the Cowboys was Super Bowl 12 when the Cowboys played the Broncos.

 

[OGCowboy]

Since about ‘67...my uncle played football with Tom Landry @UT and was from Mercedes and played against Tom at Mission when they were in HS...they were good friends. My uncle was quite a HS coach in his own right...

 

[Cowpolk]

I wasn't even an itch in my dad's pants on 1958

My daddy done itched in 1958 actually 4 years earlier

 

[cowboyec]

AMEN

 

[Point-of-the-Star]

I'm 56....I'll buy you a drink at a senior citizen bar one day!

The seats will be warm from us old timers . I've been a fan from '66 like Hagman and Tanglefoot. I'll look for you Ranching and Hayseed and the first glass of GlenLivet is on me . . . at least the 15 year stuff.

 

[Ranching]

The seats will be warm from us old timers . I've been a fan from '66 like Hagman and Tanglefoot. I'll look for you Ranching and Hayseed and the first glass of GlenLivet is on me . . . at least the 15 year stuff.

That's good stuff. Salud!

 

[Jake]

Haven't missed a game since. I'm the youngest in my family and no one else follows the sport. Roger, Drew, Too Tall and Randy sold me on this game....then I found out Tom Landry was born and raised 30 miles from me....I was hooked!
Football became my life and eventually, my livelihood....I can't wait for the season to start! Haters and homers, Salud! Let's get this party started!

I've been a fan since 1971, no easy trick growing up in Ohio in a family of Browns fans. I just found Landry and Staubach a lot more interesting than anything the Browns were doing, and I could never relate to the Steelers (closest team to where I lived) - what the heck is a "Steeler" anyway? The polka stuff, the towels, not for me.

Then my grandparents took me to Garland, TX to visit my grandma's sister in 1973 and I was totally hooked. We went to the Town East Mall in Mesquite, TX for a meet and greet thing with the Cowboys - Staubach was there. Got some Cowboys apparel and proudly wore back home in Ohio. Half a century later, I'm still here.

They took me back to Garland again in 1976 and 1978 - Grandpa took me to tour Texas Stadium. He wasn't a Cowboys fan but he loved his grandchildren. I ended up making many trips to see the Cowboys in the 90s and well into the 2000s. Jerry frustrates me but after 50 years I'm too old to switch teams, for better or worse.

 

[plasticman]

Haven't missed a game since. I'm the youngest in my family and no one else follows the sport. Roger, Drew, Too Tall and Randy sold me on this game....then I found out Tom Landry was born and raised 30 miles from me....I was hooked!
Football became my life and eventually, my livelihood....I can't wait for the season to start! Haters and homers, Salud! Let's get this party started!

Since 1974? So, you're the reason they didn't make the playoffs that year.....just joking.

I became a fan in 1970 because I felt sorry for them....true story.

I came to the U.S. in 1969 at the age of 13 from Scotland. I was intrigued with the game of football because the players wore uniforms with pads and masks that would remind me of the knights of the middle ages. They launched their bodies at each other, it was exciting to watch.

I didn't know how to play any American games but my new friends advised me to watch the Dallas Cowboys if I wanted to learn. They told me the Cowboys were a great team.

I watched them play the Vikings and they got slaughtered 54-13. I accused my friends of tricking me. They told me that the game was a fluke, the Cowboys had almost won two championships recently. I tried them again a few weeks later on a Monday night. They lost 38-0. They were so bad that the announcer, Howard Cosell, was making fun of them.

That's when I decided they were my team. I felt so bad for them.

As you know, they didn't lose another game that year until they lost the Super bowl on a last minute field goal. But I was hooked forever. I wanted them to win the following year so bad and they did!

Man, the 70's were a great decade to be a Cowboys fan!

This decade, the 2020's hasn't started off too bad, let's see what happens next!

 

[ShortRound]

Fan since around 1980, that was the winter my parents gave me a Cowboys winter coat. In Giants land, the middle of NYC. lol (it was on sale of course)

 

[Ranching]

I've been a fan since 1971, no easy trick growing up in Ohio in a family of Browns fans. I just found Landry and Staubach a lot more interesting than anything the Browns were doing, and I could never relate to the Steelers (closest team to where I lived) - what the heck is a "Steeler" anyway? The polka stuff, the towels, not for me.

Then my grandparents took me to Garland, TX to visit my grandma's sister in 1973 and I was totally hooked. We went to the Town East Mall in Mesquite, TX for a meet and greet thing with the Cowboys - Staubach was there. Got some Cowboys apparel and proudly wore back home in Ohio. Half a century later, I'm still here.

They took me back to Garland again in 1976 and 1978 - Grandpa took me to tour Texas Stadium. He wasn't a Cowboys fan but he loved his grandchildren. I ended up making many trips to see the Cowboys in the 90s and well into the 2000s. Jerry frustrates me but after 50 years I'm too old to switch teams, for better or worse.

Fan since around 1980, that was the winter my parents gave me a Cowboys winter coat. In Giants land, the middle of NYC. lol (it was on sale of course)

Since 1974? So, you're the reason they didn't make the playoffs that year.....just joking.

I became a fan in 1970 because I felt sorry for them....true story.

I came to the U.S. in 1969 at the age of 13 from Scotland. I was intrigued with the game of football because the players wore uniforms with pads and masks that would remind me of the knights of the middle ages. They launched their bodies at each other, it was exciting to watch.

I didn't know how to play any American games but my new friends advised me to watch the Dallas Cowboys if I wanted to learn. They told me the Cowboys were a great team.

I watched them play the Vikings and they got slaughtered 54-13. I accused my friends of tricking me. They told me that the game was a fluke, the Cowboys had almost won two championships recently. I tried them again a few weeks later on a Monday night. They lost 38-0. They were so bad that the announcer, Howard Cosell, was making fun of them.

That's when I decided they were my team. I felt so bad for them.

As you know, they didn't lose another game that year until they lost the Super bowl on a last minute field goal. But I was hooked forever. I wanted them to win the following year so bad and they did!

Man, the 70's were a great decade to be a Cowboys fan!

This decade, the 2020's hasn't started off too bad, let's see what happens next!

Awesome stories!!

 

[Ranching]

I’ve been a fan since1976. I was 8.
My dads side of the family were all foreskin fans and that’s all I use to hear about.
I picked the Cowboys originally just to piss them off.
There has def. been some bad years and some real good years.
I don’t let it ruin my following week like I use to after a loss. I’m over it shortly after, now.
I’ll always pull for the Cowboys regardless. I still hate all the NFC east teams, even the dam Cardinals!
Go Cowboys!

Salud, brother!

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Born in 1992, been a fan since late 1999 or 2000.

 

[Texasfootball21]

1971 is as far back I can remember as a youngster growing up in Dallas around 7 years old. We won the super bowl in 72 and have been true n blue ever since. Got to meet alot of the greats in Big D as a kid, the players were all over the city signing autographs at various places. Great times! My live unforgettable moment believe it or not was at Texas Stadium in the end zone when Clint Longley launched the bomb to Drew Pearson for the touchdown win vs the Commanders on Thanksgiving day. Never been so excited as a young'un in my life. My family and I love the Dallas Cowboys, always have an always will. Amen brothers and sisters!!!

 

[RonWashington]

Haven't missed a game since. I'm the youngest in my family and no one else follows the sport. Roger, Drew, Too Tall and Randy sold me on this game....then I found out Tom Landry was born and raised 30 miles from me....I was hooked!
Football became my life and eventually, my livelihood....I can't wait for the season to start! Haters and homers, Salud! Let's get this party started!

When I see your handle I can’t decide if your talking Hidden Valley which makes a damm fine ranch dressing or ranch as in King Ranch . Either way I like your post . Get the party started . Maybe MM can find a Mason Crosby clone to come kick at the Art Gallery .

 

[muck4doo]

Haven't missed a game since. I'm the youngest in my family and no one else follows the sport. Roger, Drew, Too Tall and Randy sold me on this game....then I found out Tom Landry was born and raised 30 miles from me....I was hooked!
Football became my life and eventually, my livelihood....I can't wait for the season to start! Haters and homers, Salud! Let's get this party started!

You have me beat. I became a Cowboys fan in 1977. Fun fact. My grandfather and Tom Landry were born a day apart in Mission TX. I always liked to think they were both in the maternity ward together as newborns.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Haven't missed a game since. I'm the youngest in my family and no one else follows the sport. Roger, Drew, Too Tall and Randy sold me on this game....then I found out Tom Landry was born and raised 30 miles from me....I was hooked!
Football became my life and eventually, my livelihood....I can't wait for the season to start! Haters and homers, Salud! Let's get this party started!

Just don't drive when you get tha way, pub boy.

 

[CaptainCowboy12]

Since 1974? So, you're the reason they didn't make the playoffs that year.....just joking.

I became a fan in 1970 because I felt sorry for them....true story.

I came to the U.S. in 1969 at the age of 13 from Scotland. I was intrigued with the game of football because the players wore uniforms with pads and masks that would remind me of the knights of the middle ages. They launched their bodies at each other, it was exciting to watch.

I didn't know how to play any American games but my new friends advised me to watch the Dallas Cowboys if I wanted to learn. They told me the Cowboys were a great team.

I watched them play the Vikings and they got slaughtered 54-13. I accused my friends of tricking me. They told me that the game was a fluke, the Cowboys had almost won two championships recently. I tried them again a few weeks later on a Monday night. They lost 38-0. They were so bad that the announcer, Howard Cosell, was making fun of them.

That's when I decided they were my team. I felt so bad for them.

As you know, they didn't lose another game that year until they lost the Super bowl on a last minute field goal. But I was hooked forever. I wanted them to win the following year so bad and they did!

Man, the 70's were a great decade to be a Cowboys fan!

This decade, the 2020's hasn't started off too bad, let's see what happens next!

My first season as well. Mom got us a subscription to Dallas Cowboys weekly and that was it for myself and my two brothers, we’ve all been fans ever since. I remember the 38-0 loss on MNF and I remember them winning the last five games of the season to make the playoffs, including the 6-2 victory over the Browns in the mud and Morton’s 5 td passes against Houston in the season finale. I remember the 5-0 playoff victory over Detroit and the 17-10 victory over the 49ers. I still remember so many of the players from that season and I still have their football cards, great memories from what does not seem that long ago.

 

[JoeKing]

Haven't missed a game since. I'm the youngest in my family and no one else follows the sport. Roger, Drew, Too Tall and Randy sold me on this game....then I found out Tom Landry was born and raised 30 miles from me....I was hooked!
Football became my life and eventually, my livelihood....I can't wait for the season to start! Haters and homers, Salud! Let's get this party started!

I too have never missed a game since the Cowboys beat the Dolphins in the Super Bowl. I was the youngest in my family as well and I'm the only one that has maintained watching Cowboys games to this very day. I feel your passion for this game and it pumps me up to want to watch some football. Soon our "America's Team" will be back at it on the gridiron. My heroes when I was a kid was Roger Staubach, Randy "The Manster" White, Harvey Martin, and Drew Pearson. Then there was the second coming of the Cowboys Dynasty of the '90s with Troy, Emmitt and Michael. Football has always been the only sport I truly love. I played it as soon as my parents would let me in my early teens all the way through school until I graduated High School. Nothing else feeds that need for Cowboys Football. I'm ready to get this party started!

 

[DogFace]

I got hooked in the late 70’s and it was NFL films that did it.

The Dallas Cowboys. America’s team.