Boys fans dont admit to following the Campo yrs.

[MONT17]

Dont get me wrong Im not saying noone followed the Boys in the early decade... What I am saying is, noone brags about their fanhood like they did in the 90s in reference to the 89 team! After every Super Bowl victory, fans would say "I was a fan when they were 1-15" or bring up the fact that Tom Landry was the only coach, like tha knowledge wasnt common placed.


But things have changed with the times, now ppl despise the Campo yrs with as much contempt as some of Boys fans had for the Skins 91 season. New-Gen fans loathe those days and often compare the 5-11 seasons as if its something they fear and would not accept or get over lightly.


Its easy to be a fan of a good team, its the hard years that make you a real fan... With that being said, why would so many New-Gen fans deny their burben from those days with mockery at every turn it wasnt like they didnt cheer for guys like Troy Hambrick or Ryan Leaf... They were Raider fans or Patriots fans... but they were not Cowboy fans! I


The old guys know what Im talking about, with the guys with the Aikman Jersey and the LA Dodgers hat!

 

[Aikbach]

I watched them and cringed, the only guaranteed delight was sweeping the Commanders every year and occasionally upsetting someone to play the role of spoiler.

 

[Kangaroo]

Dont get me wrong Im not saying noone followed the Boys in the early decade... What I am saying is, noone brags about their fanhood like they did in the 90s in reference to the 89 team! After every Super Bowl victory, fans would say "I was a fan when they were 1-15" or bring up the fact that Tom Landry was the only coach, like tha knowledge wasnt common placed.


But things have changed with the times, now ppl despise the Campo yrs with as much contempt as some of Boys fans had for the Skins 91 season. New-Gen fans loathe those days and often compare the 5-11 seasons as if its something they fear and would not accept or get over lightly.


Its easy to be a fan of a good team, its the hard years that make you a real fan... With that being said, why would so many New-Gen fans deny their burben from those days with mockery at every turn it wasnt like they didnt cheer for guys like Troy Hambrick or Ryan Leaf


The old guys know what Im talking about, with the guys with the Aikman Jersy and the LA Dodgers hat!

Hey I followed the Danny White Years growing up and I talk about following the Poodle years all the time and how bad it was

 

[adbutcher]

I watched them and cringed, the only guaranteed delight was sweeping the Commanders every year and occasionally upsetting someone to play the role of spoiler.

No matter how good the skins were they can never say that they were better then us under the Poodle regime. That has to hurt, it would be like getting sweep by them under Zorn.

 

[viman96]

I have said it many times here, the three 5-11 seasons under Campo, were the worst for me. There was no hope with those teams. Jimmy quickly turned around the 3-13 (Landry) and 1-15 (Jimmy) teams into almost a .500 team. I believe they lost to the Saints the game of the season to finish 7-9.

There was hope with Jimmy after 1 season. The Campo years just dragged on and on and on...

 

[dolphinphin128]

I'm only 22, and I didn't even really understand football until I started playing in 7th grade which was right in time for the 99 season, the Irvin injury and the beginning of 3 years of suck...I do have a way too small shirt with XXX-cellent on the front though...

 

[Joe Realist]

They were bad. No hope, no talent. I remember wearing my Dallas Cowboys hirt in 1989 as well and getting looks and laughs. It was also tough to see end of Landry era play out as it did. The team got old, talent was lacking, etc.

 

[jterrell]

They were lean years but that's the price you pay for all the selling out Jerry did to try and win in 96,97 when the dynasty was really closing up shop.

SF had to pay that price and so did we.

It just is what it is.

Fortunately right now we have a lot of important pieces that are in their prime or younger than that.

I will always be a Cowboys fan, even if they go 0-16. People forget the worst season of all was very probably the first under Jimmy Johnson when other teams mocked us and our only win was against the scabs with walsh at qb. People talk now about the hope and potential of those young guys but aikman was getting murdered, we had nothing going for us at all and the offense was being called by david shula, probably the worst OC of all time.

 

[CowboyMike]

I actually became a bigger fan during the Campo years. It is when I grew to love football and understand the game better, and that's when I started keeping track of the Cowboys religiously rather than just once a week on Sunday.

Sometimes I even miss the underdog optimism of our leaner years.

 

[Vintage]

Dont get me wrong Im not saying noone followed the Boys in the early decade... What I am saying is, noone brags about their fanhood like they did in the 90s in reference to the 89 team! After every Super Bowl victory, fans would say "I was a fan when they were 1-15" or bring up the fact that Tom Landry was the only coach, like tha knowledge wasnt common placed.


But things have changed with the times, now ppl despise the Campo yrs with as much contempt as some of Boys fans had for the Skins 91 season. New-Gen fans loathe those days and often compare the 5-11 seasons as if its something they fear and would not accept or get over lightly.


Its easy to be a fan of a good team, its the hard years that make you a real fan... With that being said, why would so many New-Gen fans deny their burben from those days with mockery at every turn it wasnt like they didnt cheer for guys like Troy Hambrick or Ryan Leaf... They were Raider fans or Patriots fans... but they were not Cowboy fans! I


The old guys know what Im talking about, with the guys with the Aikman Jersey and the LA Dodgers hat!

Of course you bragged you were a fan of the 1-15 team after the Cowboys won a Super Bowl..... because....

Wait for it.

The Cowboys just won a Super Bowl. So you can look back upon the 1-15 season and laugh, because the Cowboys went from god awful to the best.

Those of us who weren't old enough to take part in watching the 89 season (I was 3), didn't get to see a team go from worst to best.

We endured the Campo years.

But we haven't won a Super Bowl.

I can't look upon the Campo years and laugh, because I haven't had the last laugh yet. I haven't seen this team achieve postseason success since the Campo years..... therefore, its still a bitter memory; not one I can laugh off as I celebrate my team winning a Super Bowl.

Huge difference.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I always watched them and scared the hell out of my dog screaming at the tv. :laugh2:

 

[Doomsday101]

Good times and bad but always a Cowboys fan. I did not hate Campo back then I don't hate him now. Looking at the overall personnel we had on those team was like going to a gun fight with a knife. Salary cap was in disarray but when you are a fan you hang in there with your team.

 

[malbis030347]

the best moment in the Campo years was when the team visited Sea World and Shamu gave Campo a big wet juicy kiss....
other than that , I cannot remember anything worth noting...

 

[theebs]

I read that twice and I am still lost at what you are trying to say?

 

[juck]

Campo was terrible but he had a good defense check out the stats.

 

[viman96]

The Campo years were a complete joke. Salary cap hell. Terrible draft picks. The team brought in QB retreads that were never very good. Emmitt on the decline. All doom and gloom.

 

[viman96]

FWIW...I still wore my colors. I bleed Cowboys blue and silver.

 

[dcdallaschick]

It was hard to hate Campo because he looks very much like my grandmother. :laugh2:

I seem to remember my hatred was pretty much focused in the direction of Coslet. Man, that guy was a clueless waste of space.

Here in the DC area, the Skins fans love to label the local Cowboy fans as bandwagon jumping frontrunners who disappear whenever the team does poorly (and there are some of those, for sure), but I ran into another Boys fan here the other day and we spent some time joking about those lean 5-11 years. I wore my gear then, just as much as I do now.

 

[Doomsday101]

The Campo years were a complete joke. Salary cap hell. Terrible draft picks. The team brought in QB retreads that were never very good. Emmitt on the decline. All doom and gloom.

Salary cap hell was a big reason guys like Leaf and Hutchinson were brought in because they came at a low cost.

 

[viman96]

Salary cap hell was a big reason guys like Leaf and Hutchinson were brought in because they came at a low cost.

Yep I know. Not making any form of an excuse or justifying anything. Just saying why it sucked for me. But the team had to go through the salary cap mess to get better. Just wish they never put the team in that position. Bad memories now because they have a handle on it