Cowboys Losing Fans

[Vtwin]

If a fan jumps off the wagon and nobody hears it did it really happen?

 

[big dog cowboy]

Stop drinking the koolaid .....

Cherry has always been my favorite.

 

[DallasDomination]

You've been on levels lately Zrinkill...But even now after reading this sarcasm or whatever it is, I think part of you ment it.

 

[zrinkill]

I think part of you ment it.

All of me ment it ..... seriously.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Cherry has always been my favorite.

Yeah, I like red, too.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

The Monday Morning Blues: Tony Romo, Cowboys Losing Fans with Lackluster Play


During my entire existence on this gracious planet, I have seen hundreds of football games—from pee wee to high school to college all the way to the granddaddy of them all, the NFL.
I've seen nearly every situation a team can go through, every off-the-field incident a team can endure, and every high or low that a fan can possibly live through.

However, yesterday was the last straw for me...

If you didn't already know, I am a die-hard Dallas Cowboys fan. I bleed blue, and no one in the state of New Jersey is a bigger fan than I am. I stick by my team despite all the heckling and trash-talking that comes my way (and it's a ridiculous amount, because I live in a state that is 75 percent Giants fans, but 80 percent of those fans became fans right after they won the Super Bowl...great fanbase guys!).

Week in and week out I hear it from all angles. When the Cowboys win, it's never good enough: "Oh, well, they're supposed to win. Oh, Tony Romo still sucks even though they won." And if the Cowboys lose, it's a feeding frenzy: "Wow man, the Cowboys really suck. God, they are so bad.

Those ******** suck."

But it's OK because I deal with it, realizing that the people who talk trash to me don't know half as much as I know about football.

Through all this I've stayed upbeat, realizing that it is just a game and there are things in life that are more important than football.

But I'm here to tell you now...I am done rooting for players that don't care about their fanbase or what that star represents on the side of their helmets. I'll still root for this team week in and week out, but why invest so much stress and time into a team full of players that do not even care if they win or lose?

Ninety percent of the players on the Dallas Cowboys are there because they have been blessed with unique abilities but don't play with any heart. They are there to collect a paycheck and go home to their million-dollar mansions.

It all starts at the top in this organization. You have an owner who wants to win so badly that he'll do anything...as long as he can control it. So he goes and hires a puppet coach who he can control and have do whatever he wants...a coach who could not coach his way out of a paper bag.

Now you have a "head coach in waiting" in Jason Garrett, supposed to be regarded as the top offensive mind in all of football—yet he can't get his "star" quarterback to prepare and study the way a starting quarterback should in this league.

Now, this leads me into Mr. Romo. I have defended Tony Romo from Day One. I've stuck with him through every snap, argued against every moron that said that he sucks and he could never win a big game...WHEN HE'S ALREADY WON BIG GAMES. (He's won at Giants Stadium, Philly, Indianapolis, Green Bay, all numerous times.)

But this is a "what have you done for me lately" league, and everyone forgets what happens as soon as the next week's whistle blows.

I've stuck by all of Romo's off the field antics, with his girlfriends, vacations, and other sport ambitions. I've always supported him as the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys...until now.

I cannot root for a quarterback that routinely, week in and week out, fools his fanbase into believing that he is genuinely trying to get better each week. The reality is that he doesn't care enough about the game of football and his fanbase. Sure, he says all the right things after games, but he doesn't go and act on them.

Tony Romo needs to call up Peyton Manning and have a long talk about what it takes to succeed in the NFL at the quarterback position. Even though Romo has only been in the league three years as a starter, he's been around long enough to know that what he is doing is not working.
It's time for a change, Mr. Romo.

So until this team starts caring about how they play on the field, and they figure out what that star on the side of their helmets represents, I'll be watching with a cautious eye. I won't be fooled by a joke organization again. Start showing some heart, and some fight, and that's when you win back the fanbase that you men have destroyed.

Just some quick notes from the weekend...

The Giants beat up on another horrendous team. So they've beaten four teams that have a combined four wins? And had to go down to the wire with the Cowboys despite getting four turnovers? Hope you can sleep at night, Giant fans.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/266699-the-monday-morning-blues

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Who is this *****??? **** him I'm from jersey and I'm not quitting on the team *****. Guess you don't bleed blue ******.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

We can only hope. It is good to clear out the garbage.

 

[DallasDomination]

All of me ment it ..... seriously.

You need medication...Cracked under pressure. The biggest blind Homer in Zrinkill can't take it anymore. You care so much about what people on this forum think that you are resorting to these stupid antics.

Pathetic....

 

[Bach]

You need medication...Cracked under pressure. The biggest blind Homer in Zrinkill can't take it anymore. You care so much about what people on this forum think that you are resorting to these stupid antics.

Pathetic....

It really is sad to see him crack like this.


As for the fans, I'm sure all teams have fairweather ones. But most of us have been here through the 5-11 seasons. Many were here for the 1-15 season. Some of us were here throughout the 80's and going back to the 70's.

No doubt Jerry has ruined the team over much of the last 13 years, but I can't see myself, after over 30 years, just up and quitting as a Cowboys fan and not following them anymore. Although Jerry has taken a lot of the fun out of it the last decade.

 

[zrinkill]

You need medication...Cracked under pressure.

I have just finally seen the light ..... why do you not like it?

The biggest blind Homer in Zrinkill

I admit I was like that ..... I was a fool for supporting this team through thick and thin through the good times and bad ...... But no more.

I realized that real fans give up and badmouth their team when they are playing .500 Football in the early part of the season.

Pathetic....

I was ..... but I am better now .... I have seen the truth.


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[Eldorado]

If a 2-2 start is causing people to "stop" being Cowboys fans, what happened in the late ninetie's/early 2000's?

Oh, and let's establish a ground rule. If, because you "just can't take it any more" you stop being a fan of this team: no coming back. We'll wave to you and send you a postcard from the Super Bowl after party in a few years. Deal?

****ing ***** *** fan.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Anyone that is a Cowboys fan is not going to change teams because of poor play or lack of success.

That is silly.




Just the other day. This customer I know who is a Giants fan that knew I was flying out to seeing Dallas vs Giants says, you went out there to watch them lose? haha

I replied, I went out there to watch Romo throw TD's to the Giants. He laughed.

He then said, come over to our side, BIG BLUE.

I replied, how do you guys say it? NEVER THAT.

He said, haha - never that huh?



It was funny.:laugh1:

 

[jazzcat22]

Anyone who is suddenly deciding not to be a fan wasn't ever a real fan to begin with and are the type of fans we don't need anyway.

Right.
The one comment I hate more than anything, and that's what I tell them. You weren't a true fan anyway....is when they say...I used to like the Cowboys until Jerry jones bought them.....

I used to not hate, but dislike Jimmy Johnson when he coached the Hurricanes [mainly because I lived near the area and was tired of hearing about them]. But when JJ bought the team and hired him, I thought it was a great move.

The TEAM is what counts, not anyone player, coach or owner. Those are things we as fans can not control. You are fan of the team, or if you let that one person or incident bother you, go to another team. But shut up the complaints with OUR team.

 

[JonJon]

Anyone that is a TRUE Cowboys fan is not going to change teams because of poor play or lack of success.

Fixed that for you, because it is happening. I've talked to two people who claimed to be Cowboys fans say that they are finding a new team because Romo sucks and it's embarrassing to root for a bunch of losers. Those type of fans are the ones that never talk about the Cowboys or wear any gear, but as soon as the Cowboys start playing good and winning, they come out of the woodworks. Those fans are jumping ship quickly.

 

[Doomsday101]

Fixed that for you, because it is happening. I've talked to two people who claimed to be Cowboys fans say that they are finding a new team because Romo sucks and it's embarrassing to root for a bunch of losers. Those type of fans are the ones that never talk about the Cowboys or wear any gear, but as soon as the Cowboys start playing good and winning, they come out of the woodworks. Those fans are jumping ship quickly.

Those are not fans they are spectators

 

[big dog cowboy]

Those are not fans they are spectators

Bandwagoners. They usually change "favorite" teams at least 3 or 4 times a year.

 

[8FOR!3]

That's the America's Team part of it. Sure they're America's team, but the true loyal fans live down in Texas. (I'm in South Carolina, but I'm only 18 and I lived there til I was 13.) =P

 

[AmishCowboy]

Anyone who is suddenly deciding not to be a fan wasn't ever a real fan to begin with and are the type of fans we don't need anyway.

You got that right!

 

[DandyDon1722]

That's the America's Team part of it. Sure they're America's team, but the true loyal fans live down in Texas. (I'm in South Carolina, but I'm only 18 and I lived there til I was 13.) =P

Ummm...I know you're only 18 so you get a pass but the majority of people who know, know that as Troy Aikman once stated, "Dallas is not a Cowboys town...it's a winners town."

In traveling all over this great country to see the Cowboys play from Buffalo to San Diego, some of the most die-hard, intelligent and loyal fans are the ones have never been in the state of Texas. These are people who have an emotional investment in a team that they've only seen on television since they were kids.

Texas is great, I love Dallas...but never confuse the truer fan base.

 

[8FOR!3]

That's definitely a different prespective on it, I believe that. Unfortunately I barely remember the Aikman/Emmitt/Irvin era, vague memories from when I was little haha.