Define your passion, your moment as a true Cowboy!!

[thekavorka]

Growing up in Dallas, my entire family were Cowboy fans. I didn't know much about football until I was 5. The first game I saw was Superbowl 27. After that, I was hooked on football and the Cowboys.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

She never questioned my desire to stay up all night and watch the Cowboys. She simply said that it is in the fiber of my being.

Darn, you are a lucky man.

Mine told me I needed to cut the grass (the grass on my lawn), paint the walls, visit the mother in law, make more money and grow up and stop acting like a collegeun cheering for a bunch of men who play football and turn the pretend radio studio/board into a laundry room.

Hey, if your wife has any sisters left in India, give me a PM. I would not mind outsourcing myself there just to be appreciated for my love of the Dallas Cowboys.

 

[thekavorka]

Man, that sounds tough. I have a whole new respect for you, your past, and your appreciation of the Dallas Cowboys.

The Cowboys do provide me with an escape. For 3 hours or so during the game, I channel all of my energy on that 46" LCD TV. My family understands, and my wife and kids simply follow along with me and participate in my "acting a fool" when the Cowboys make a big play or score a TD. My wife and kids actually leave me alone when the Cowboys lose, but cheer along with me when they win.

For a few hours during the game, the Cowboys allow me to escape and act like a kid again. No other sports team, even my LSU Tigers, get me so fired up.

I don't even play fantasy football. I would feel dirty by cheering for other players on other teams...even if those players AREN'T playing against the Cowboys that week.

I married my wife in India in late 1995. I was there on Christmas break and was watching Cowboys games with her when we were on a run to another Super Bowl run. Amazingly, they showed Dallas Cowboys (and only the Dallas Cowboys) in India way back in 1995. What other team has that kind of international recognition? The games come on live in India, but the time zone is 12 hours apart from Dallas, so I was watching the games with her in the early morning hours there. I taught her about the game of football, and explained the history of the Cowboys, and my love for the Cowboys.

She never questioned my desire to stay up all night and watch the Cowboys. She simply said that it is in the fiber of my being.

where are you from in india

 

[cstanton1987]

I was born in 87 my first clear memories are of the 92 Super Bowl and I stuck around when they sucked

 

[Darkhound]

I am eager to see when our golden times will return!

 

[DragonCowboy]

I married my wife in India in late 1995. I was there on Christmas break and was watching Cowboys games with her when we were on a run to another Super Bowl run. Amazingly, they showed Dallas Cowboys (and only the Dallas Cowboys) in India way back in 1995. What other team has that kind of international recognition? The games come on live in India, but the time zone is 12 hours apart from Dallas, so I was watching the games with her in the early morning hours there. I taught her about the game of football, and explained the history of the Cowboys, and my love for the Cowboys.

She never questioned my desire to stay up all night and watch the Cowboys. She simply said that it is in the fiber of my being.

My parents both grew up in India, and they used to tell me how when they went back to India to visit, they watched one of the Cowboys Super Bowls of the 90s thrice! Live, later in the morning, and in the afternoon.

Dallas is not only America's Team, but it's the Earth's Team.

 

[50cent]

My first memory of being a cowboy fan was TDs 99 yard TD run on Monday night football. I remember living in Flint, MI watching the game and thinking I was going to grow up and be the next TD.

 

[Tuna Helper]

where are you from in india

I'm from Baroda (Vadodara), which is in the state of Gujarat. It is more towards the NW portion of India, and isn't too far from Bombay (Mumbai as they call it now).

 

[Clove]

I was 5 when I first loved the Cowboys. I was a serious Drew Pearson fan. I would go to school and catch passes and then say, "drew"! I used to cry in the 70s when we lost, and through out the 80s, every year I just knew it was the year.

I was in heaven in the early 90s, and I hope to be in heaven soon again.

 

[Darkhound]

We will be in heaven agian very very soon my friend!

 

[thekavorka]

I'm from Baroda (Vadodara), which is in the state of Gujarat. It is more towards the NW portion of India, and isn't too far from Bombay (Mumbai as they call it now).

oh ok. I was just wondering. I'm from Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh)

 

[daynje]

I actually started liking the Cowboys from a video game. It was back in 1989 and I was just getting into football, I was 12 years old. My parents bought me Super Teckmobowl ( I think thats how you spell it.) I picked the Dallas Cowboys as my team, and that year I started watching football. Unfortunitly they went 1-15 that year but I didn't care. They were my team and they always will be.


:lombardi:

 

[wahoofan22]

Mine would be watching the Cowboys (as a seven year old) beat the Broncos in the '77 superbowl. I live in Commander land and my uncles are huge skins fans. I picked the one think that pissed them off the most and I've stuck with it ever since.

That's also how I ended up being a dodgers fan - their uniform colors were the same as the cowboys (or pretty close...I was a kid).

Go Cowboys

 

[Darkhound]

I also have a nice memory.... The day the cowboys got humiliated by the Lions on divisional playoffs on 1991, Bearulain was the QB.... i knew payback time was going to come

 

[Frosty]

Ok guys, I think this would be a good thread!

What was the defining moment you swore loyalty and devotion to the Dallas Cowboys? Were some of you converted from another team? Was it a specific player? Let us hear about it!

For me, it was a funny story.... I was like 4 years old, and I DO remember that my older cousin, Sergio had this NICE AND PRETTY Blue with Silver jacket, with a nice Star on it. That became an obsession, so so bad, that my uncle ended up giving me that jacket. The colors seems right and the star was cool. The rest my friends, is history!

OK now.... I give. ...sentimentaly what....kick me in the nuts for even commenting in this thread...

 

[Darkhound]

What do you mean by that?

 

[mmohican29]

I think in my ultra youth I was a Rams fan only because I had a Rams coat someow with the Ram-head logo on it it was cool plus I loved the blue and yellow.

I also loved Eric Dickerson when he was at SMU with Craig James and the Pony Express... I loved their unis with the bright blue red and white. So I stuck with the Rams til I was like 7 and wavered between them and the Baltimore Colts, cuz I liked the horse shoe helmet... I just thought it was cool.

I moved to central NY and my friends were all Cowboys fans, who had lost to the Steelers in the Superbowls I didn't pay attention to. Their parents of course were pretty much Giants, Jets and Bills fans. Those teams all stunk to high heaven back then. I did like watching the Jets and the NYSExchange team with Gastineau and Klecko alot... Johnny Lam Jones and Freeman McNeil etc.

But I really didn't care alot about football I was a baseball kid. Slowly under immense peer pressure from my more astute football frenzied friends who were all of 7 or 8ish I watched each Sunday at my house or theirs the 1pm yawn game with the NYG or Jets or Bills... then at 4pm this unique team with the star on its helmet with a QB that the announcers told me was replacing a legend. His name was Danny White, and they had this austere hard-core coach named Tom Landry and a lightning fast heisman winning RB named Dorsett. A huge intimidating defense with celebrity style names... and I became a pretty big fan.

I sold my soul to the Cowboys the day I cried my 9 year old eyes out when they lost on the catch to the 49ers. Since then I have been as hardcore about this team as one can think possible without plastering everything I see silver and blue.

I have always admired the "clutchness" of the team throughout their history and the fact that they seem to never be out of it no matter the score. The Dallas Cowboys are never ever dead and buried. They just keep coming, win or lose, until they win it all again.

Even the sickening, ridiculous losses reinforce my love for the team... because I know they will be back. I know. And that is why the entire world sleeps with their lights on and wants to say the Cowboys are done.

Because just like the boogeyman, he is never far from their consciousness... and the Cowboys are never "really" out of the hunt for the Lombardi Trophy.

 

[MapleLeaf]

...after the CFL Grey Cup the Canadian Tele switched to NFL and I saw Staubach throw a bomb to Golden Richards in stride for a TD.

I was in awe at how good football looked being played on green grass during what was winter for us Canadians.

During the NFC Championships that year Richards took a punt return back all the way. I thought he was the best player on the team.: Funny what a child's perception of a game is like.

It's been a mild obsession ever since.

 

[Ben_n_austin]

Is that you Ben? Good to see you again if it is!

Donde esta Diego, mi amigo?

 

[ologan]

Even though I started following them as a kid,and remember watching Bob Lilly play for TCU in Memorial Stadium in Austin,and picked up when he was drafted,the phrase that always takes me back to the cognizant beginning of my Cowboys passion,is " Hayes to the right.....Rentzel to the left.....Meredith is back to pass....". Also, going to the Cotton Bowl with my dad to watch them play!