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Dallas Cowboys – What Was, Is & Shall Be
http://cowboyszone.com/2017/01/dallas-cowboys-what-was-is-shall-be.html
The Dallas Cowboys and you. What a pair. For some, it was the 70’s that brought home the Lombardi and cemented the team in our psyche. For others it was the 90’s run of Super Bowl bling that brought us into the fold. A lot of fans became such during the incredible euphoria of winning it all. However before the champagne was uncorked, tattoos were received and utter dedication to all things Cowboys was a period of time we tend to forget. The suffering.
Tom Landry’s Dallas Cowboys had a label before they played the perfect game against Miami. Dallas “couldn’t win the big one.” They were all flash and no bang. A finesse team that couldn’t hang with the physical Steelers teams of the era (70’s steroid scandal that wasn’t). The team would literally own the regular games only to flame out in the second season when it mattered. You knew your team was awesome, however the rest of the world was laughing as talented Cowboys teams came up short year, after year, after year. It was a brutal time to be a Cowboys fan. You suffered.
Then all became right in the world when an entire team played as one against the Miami Dolphins and it was as if the preceding years of agony had never occurred. I watched a similar phenomenon as my son was born and my wife went from a place of intense pain to one of wonderment and joy in the blink of an eye uninterested in the intensity of her discomfort only moments before. The same was true for Cowboys fans as years of waiting, of being denied only made the victory that much more intense. The nectar that much sweeter.
After a 20 year run of football excellence the wheels fell off for Tex Schram and Tom Landry as the team fell on hard times as the rest of the league caught up with their modern techniques. The doldrums set in hard as a lengthy period of poorly played football was put on display in Dallas. Fans used to excellence were left suffering and confused as cats chased dogs, the sun shined in Seattle and the rain poured in Arizona. Life was not as it should be. You suffered.
Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson changed all that in the 90’s and did so in quick order. It was again “cool” to be a Cowboys fan as the team was talented and down-right nasty on game day. The club was built for the playoffs and the fans were treated to a wonderful run of NFL dynastic euphoria that most never experience and now Cowboys fans had twice. It seemed as if it would never end. Then Jimmy Johnson left. Fans again suffered...
http://cowboyszone.com/2017/01/dallas-cowboys-what-was-is-shall-be.html
The Dallas Cowboys and you. What a pair. For some, it was the 70’s that brought home the Lombardi and cemented the team in our psyche. For others it was the 90’s run of Super Bowl bling that brought us into the fold. A lot of fans became such during the incredible euphoria of winning it all. However before the champagne was uncorked, tattoos were received and utter dedication to all things Cowboys was a period of time we tend to forget. The suffering.
Tom Landry’s Dallas Cowboys had a label before they played the perfect game against Miami. Dallas “couldn’t win the big one.” They were all flash and no bang. A finesse team that couldn’t hang with the physical Steelers teams of the era (70’s steroid scandal that wasn’t). The team would literally own the regular games only to flame out in the second season when it mattered. You knew your team was awesome, however the rest of the world was laughing as talented Cowboys teams came up short year, after year, after year. It was a brutal time to be a Cowboys fan. You suffered.
Then all became right in the world when an entire team played as one against the Miami Dolphins and it was as if the preceding years of agony had never occurred. I watched a similar phenomenon as my son was born and my wife went from a place of intense pain to one of wonderment and joy in the blink of an eye uninterested in the intensity of her discomfort only moments before. The same was true for Cowboys fans as years of waiting, of being denied only made the victory that much more intense. The nectar that much sweeter.
After a 20 year run of football excellence the wheels fell off for Tex Schram and Tom Landry as the team fell on hard times as the rest of the league caught up with their modern techniques. The doldrums set in hard as a lengthy period of poorly played football was put on display in Dallas. Fans used to excellence were left suffering and confused as cats chased dogs, the sun shined in Seattle and the rain poured in Arizona. Life was not as it should be. You suffered.
Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson changed all that in the 90’s and did so in quick order. It was again “cool” to be a Cowboys fan as the team was talented and down-right nasty on game day. The club was built for the playoffs and the fans were treated to a wonderful run of NFL dynastic euphoria that most never experience and now Cowboys fans had twice. It seemed as if it would never end. Then Jimmy Johnson left. Fans again suffered...