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74 here as well. Got this that year
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and took several pictures of the TV screen of the game. I pined them on my cork board in my room. Ah, those were the days.
 

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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!
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almost as long as you have been...

I have been a fan since 1977, when I got introduced into football, got hooked and never looked back. lived through the lean years (does past 28 years count?).

as cowboys fans, we have learned to suffer and that its ok to suffer and we expect to suffer.
 
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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.
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I am about the same actually. But became a fan around 1967 season.
Grew up 80 miles north of Cincinnati. My 3 older brothers were Browns fans, until the Bengals started, 2 went with the Bengals, 1 stayed with the Browns. And they still are that way.

I originally liked the Rams for their helmets, but it was the 1st game I remember watching. Then the more I watched, the more I seen the Cowboys I started liking them. Then after the Ice bowl, my brothers kept going on about the Packers and Bart Starr. For some reason, I said, no, GB is history, Dallas is the team of the future. Heck, I just said it.
I liked them ever since, and then the Bengals started I think the next season. I liked them but Dallas was still tops.

Then I was 10, in 1969, we took a vacation to Texas, as my mom had relatives in Plano, and in Houston and Galveston.
I remember all the talk about the Dallas Cowboys. And my cousin was talking about trying out for the upstart Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.
Well they been around, but the new style cheerleaders I guess.

Heading back today from here in Columbus to the DFW area. My son has a few hours at the convention center, so I am driving up to Ohio Stadium and around that area until time to pick him up and then hit the road.
 
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They let them play back then....not like the woosies of today.
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there was the golden time of football. It was in between the era of Jack Tatum paralyzing Daryl Stingley and the present wuss league of today. They couldn’t let some of those knock-out hits continue but they failed to keep that happy medium we had in the 80s and 90s.

The NFL is the epitome of fixin something that ain’t broke. They let the quality product they have, be influenced by lawyers, unions, and special interest groups. The owners are slaves to media scrutiny instead of common sense. The sport is surviving and still thriving in spite of the owners, NFL executives and ridiculous rules.

…….steps off soap box.
 
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Ranching said:
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!
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And I thought I was cool not missing a game since 12/30/90 lol.

It would have been longer but I don't live in Texas and the satellite/ticket thing was just starting to take off around then.

I remember calling the local sports bar in early 1990 being in disbelief that I could see the Cowboys game there. Turns out they weren't lying. I had to work some Sundays back then, and why I missed.

But I've never let anything in my personal life get in the way. Just won't allow it.

That's why I get a little pissy when I want to take a cheap, or often very fair, shot at Jerry and someone tells me to go root for someone else....and that person probably wasn't born the last time didn't see a game.
 
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I remember winning a 2 dollar bet with my father on the 1975 NFC Championship game. At that moment I wasn't a full on Cowboys fan, I just picked them over the Rams. That Rams defense still holds the record for least points given up per game in the SB era. If I'm not mistaken.
 
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Been a fan since 72 as a kid growing up in Texas. We moved out of Texas few years later and lived in bunch of other cities, but I remained a fan of the Cowboys.
Probably had to do with my love for Landry and too lesser extent Staubach also.

To be honest, I doubt I would have remained a fan when we moved if Campo was the HC and Quinthy the QB.
 
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