Hostile;3040637 said:
Forgive me for a minute while I go off on a rant.
I can't stand when anyone attacks Dallas Cowboys fans. Not even when it is our own fans. Let me bottom line this for you and every other person who has no idea what is in someone else's heart with regards to this team. Every fan on this forum, young and old, is invested in this team. It doesn't matter if they are positive or negative. It doesn't matter if they are in their 70's, 60's, 50's, 40's, 30's, 20's or teens. They are here because they love this team.
Saying that they won't admit to following the team during the Campo years is nothing but a load of crap. Anyone in here who has been a fan longer than just this decade or the last few years is here admitting to you and the rest of the world that they followed the team through the Campo years.
A fan since 2003 or more recent years is the only fan in here who cannot make that claim. You cannot make that claim of anyone else. No one can. It is not right and it is not poignant.
Just because someone isn't happy during certain years does not mean they are any less a fan. If they have emotion invested in this team, they are a fan. That isn't even debatable.
THANK YOU, and spot on. Could not of said it better myself.
Nav22;3041718 said:
I had always been a fan of Campo's until this game.
We were down 26-10 with about 5 minutes left when Reggie Swinton returned a punt for a TD to make it 26-16. Campo the moron decides to kick the PAT instead of going for 2 to make it an 8 point game. 26-17.
So of course, we score another TD (Hambrick I believe) with about 1:30 left to make it 26-24. Onside kick recovered by Denver, game over.
Campo's post-game reasoning for the PAT kick after the Swinton TD was that he didn't think our odds of converting 2 2-point conversions were very good.
Ridiculous. So he thought our odds of scoring 3 times in 5 minutes to win the game were BETTER than the odds of us converting the 2-point conversions?
Still pisses me off thinking about it (obviously). I hate when the 'Boys lose, but especially when it's on Thanksgiving. Puts a damper on my favorite holiday.
Well, Campo to me was the ultimate puppet under Jones. The game that did all for me, and Jerry As well, I believe, was against Frisco on 12/08/02. had the game won, just needed one more 1st down. It was 4th and 1, Emmitt in the backfield. Campo waitiing for the play and Coslett telling them they didn't have a play ready. I will repeat that, they didn't have a play ready.
HUH? Instead, if I remember correctly, they burned a timeout and then failed with a stupid pass out in the flat the the Niners smothered. I could be wrong. Anyhow, ended up losing that game and when they showed Jerry in his press box, I knew right then that the coaching staff was history. Let by 10 pts too and let them back in the game. Coslett was completely worse then Campo thought, no comparison, he was a tool.
Lots of hard times during those years. You just kept waiting for something to change. Even with the players they had, you were hoping that it would all click for the sake of them. The Quincy's, Hambricks, Dantzlers, Dixon's. I mean , at that time. Not after though and finding just what some of the players attitudes actually were.But, in the moment.
It is those lean years that make you realize after a tough loss now, just at one point in Dallas's history that the times now for this team are a lot better. It also shows you how quickly it can all go to ****. I can look back on that and go , "Well, atleast Garrett ain't as bad as Coslett", or, Thank god we have better WR's then Tucker, McGarity, and Ogden and countless others. Macey Brooks comes to mind. I do wish that Jeffers would of come alive for Dallas, that was short lived though.
And yes, thank god this team has Romo no instead of the laundry list of QB's that were before him.
And 89 and Aikman getting KILLED! concussions galore. 
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