Considering the lack of success, how is this team maintaining such a strong fanbase?

[camelboy]

I believe it goes way back when we kept making the playoffs but couldn't win the big one ...next year's champs they called us .. that started the aura ..then add 5 SBs in the 70's then 90's domination built on top of that fanbase

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bob-lilly-on-next-years-champions/vp-BBnUex0

 

[jnday]

Because being a fan isn't a decision. I never chose to be a Cowboys fan.

But I don't want to wax poetic about fandom so the sensitive crowd can feet good while washing off the face paint for the final time this season. I'm a fan. I'll always be a fan. But the Dallas Cowboys as you knew them are dead and Jerry Jones committed the murder. If that doesn't infuriate you, we're not cut from the same cloth.

I can't say they'll never be able to reclaim the glory of their past and be known as perennial winners again but I can tell you it isn't happening as long as Jerry is alive. I'd bet money it isn't happening as long as the team is owned by that family.

So what do you do? Walk away? I can't. I can only hope I'm wrong or that I live long enough to see them free of this family. Maybe they can compete a year here and there in a bad league but the days of the Dallas Cowboys meaning sports excellence are gone and they aren't returning anytime soon.

All because of one man's ego.

Can't wait for the Jerry! chants in camp next summer. Go Cowboys.

This expresses my feelings exactly, but it is going to come to s point where our fanbase will shrink due to lure lack of success.

 

[J_Allen]

I'm losing interest each year that passes. I'm absolutely exhausted from this season.

 

[camelboy]

'cause we're still cooler than the rest of the league put together.

We are indeed ..no matter good or bad, ALL teams bring their best game when playing us ... Dallas SBs should count for 2 because of those extra factors

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Because the Cowboys are part of my life. Been a fan for 40 years. Can't stop now no matter how bad it gets. I do live off the glory of the old days but I fear I've seen the last of the Cowboys SBs. I hate thinking that but after 20 years you begin to wonder.

 

[ohiocowboysfan25]

Because most Cowboys fans, whether they like or hate elements of the team, stay Cowboys fans. Fans outside most teams' markets tend to be bandwagon fans who jump on whatever team is winning lately.

I was born and raised in Ohio and I had to hear from so many people in the 90s how i'm a front runner and how i'm the worst kind of fan. In school the question to test true fan hood was always name the o line and if you could do that you're a true fan. ha ha Anyways, after being a fan for all those years I wouldn't change that for anything but they are really making being a fan a challenge. I don't hear about being a dallas fan as much as I use to but occasionally I get some sort of comment from browns/steelers fans and it's just pathetic. I guess when it's all said and done I like to be tortured and teased with this team. Well "there's always next year".

 

[ElGatoGrande]

Us old people beat it into our kids who in turn beat it in to their kids and so on.

Timing and tradition. Timing because the Cowboys were awesome and in the limelight when the NFL's popularity hit full stride. Tradition because fanhood gets passed down in families.

 

[Gameover]

I became a fan in the early 80's. By the time I really knew what the game was about, the Cowboys winning ways were ending. Big names w big reps were still around, but save one 10-6 record, the glory had gone. For all the whinnying about Jones, those days were pretty damn bad.

All be a Cowboy fan 'til the end and back again!

 

[MissionCoach]

I wish Jerry would have bought the Saints or Chargers.

I wish he would have bought the Giants or the Eagles!!!

 

[SDCowboy]

That used to mean something. It doesn't carry the same weight that is used to.

Obviously it does...

 

[scottsp]

Some of my earliest memories are faint recollections of various games at Texas Stadium. I might have been three or four, with my parents, not believing some of the things fans around us were screaming at the top of their lungs. This was 1973 or thereabouts, so looking back, I can completely understand the barrage of four-letter words my folks and others were directing towards the likes of Terry Bradshaw and Fran Tarkenton.

All this to say, it was never a choice. I never knew any other way. And I suppose it's also why it hurts so much to see how this organization operates today. What was once first-rate and cutting-edge for the time is now reduced to an art gallery embedded in a billion dollar palace, which, sad to say, might now be what the Dallas Cowboys are known for most.

 

[Maxmadden]

This expresses my feelings exactly, but it is going to come to s point where our fanbase will shrink due to lure lack of success.

If it didn't shrink the last 20 years, what makes you think it will shrink now that the arrow is pointing semi upward? Most people are just riding the wave of bad luck this year because they understand that "**It Happens" and they are in fact true fans. You sound like you are questioning your own loyalty to the team and if so, I urge you to jump.

 

[Clove]

Any person who's become a fan lately may be attributed to media coverage, the star, the stadium, but mostly media coverage.
Because we are the Dallas Cowboys, the media still can't get enough. Even when we lose, they have to talk about us a lot. This is the only way I can see new football fans gravitating to the Cowboys. Older fans are naturally addicted, and fans of family who grew up Cowboys fans will remain fans.

If we were to ever become relevant again, this fan base would explode.

 

[Gameover]

A real GM would be nice along with a front office not run by inept friends and family.

Just last year weren't those guy voted the front office of the year?

Call me when Romo, Dez and the RB we select in the draft are all on the field, healthy!

 

[Gameover]

I wish he would have bought the Giants or the Eagles!!!

They had a combined 13-19 record.

 

[Cmac]

We've been loyal fans indeed.....but with no light at the end of the tunnel, leaves some of us looking at the door.

Big Red flags for me:
Johnny Football
Dez led out of town (T.O. style)
JG getting a NEW contract
More poor drafts
Same offense in 2016
Marginal players handed excuses
Continued porous defense, stale offense philosophy

 

[Dallas_Cowboys50]

I think part of it is the fact that we're still tied for 2nd in most super bowls won......another 20 years and 5-10 teams surpass us and it could start to change....As for me, like others have said, Its all Ive ever known, I grew up in DFW.....my paternal grandparents owned a business in Denton and always got tickets for free when I was real little, and then my dad would take me and my brothers whenever he could growin up......we had pep rallies at our elementary school for the 92 and 93 Super Bowls, I can remember cryin like a baby when we lost to SF in 94...it was the end of the world to me that we wouldnt go for 3 in a row......and then of course seein how extra excited my dad got when we got one back from Pittsburgh in 95......Cowboys fan til Death baby!!

 

[brymatt94]

Because if you think about not being a fan then you weren't a fan in the first place.

 

[Hoofbite]

Because if you think about not being a fan then you weren't a fan in the first place.

And this probably applies to all fan bases. The question is why is Dallas immune from the perils of multiple years of struggling?

 

[camelboy]

Anyone else feels the games played in Texas stadium look way much better on TV than Jerry's world? I always feel camera angles, colors, atmosphere all look more dramatic and holywood'sque ...maybe it's because they are all highlights?