FOR SALE: Bandwagon

[windward]

After 10 years of sucking and losing, it's harder to watch a game and NOT feel hopeless anymore.

But you'll still be watching and cheering come Sunday, won't you?

 

[The30YardSlant]

But you'll still be watching and cheering come Sunday, won't you?

Yes, albeit with much less enthusiam than I normally do

 

[Cbz40]

After 10 years of sucking and losing, it's harder to watch a game and NOT feel hopeless anymore.

After yesterday it's very difficult for any of us to feel anything but despair towards our team. However dispassionate we may feel today we will always find someone, a play, or something that will refuel the passion we have for this team.

With the Cowboys, no matter how bleak things may be, there is always hope of a better tomorrow..

 

[LeonDixson]

To me a bandwagon fan is one who is a fan only when the team is winning, not one who is critical of things that are wrong with the team. Only a blind homer never criticizes the team.

I think what happens with most of us though is that we are emotionally attached to the star, the team and all that it represents. Most of us will never stop loving the Cowboys. But we do reserve the right to criticize what we think is wrong. It doesn't keep us from watching, screaming, cussing and cheering though. We will do that through thick and thin.

There is another type of fan, though, that I don't really understand. I believe they have a psychological dependency as opposed to an emotional attachment.

What happens with these fans is that they begin to live vicariously through the team. If the team wins it is a victory for them personally. If it loses then they feel like they've just been jacked up themselves and stopped on the one yard line. They feel they are actually a part of the team, in more than just a paying, rooting fan way. And this goes deeper than just saying "we" when they actually mean the Cowboys. Most fans do that, and it's not the same thing.

Those are the fans I pity; the one's who can't recognize that it's just a game being played by other people for our entertainment.

The regular bandwagon fans???...let 'em come and go as they wish. While they're on the wagon they spend money on team paraphanalia which helps to line JJ's pockets to hire better FA's.

Me, I'll keep watching even though I keep getting argyle socks from gay uncle Raul. Because five times he's given me a really great present and I know some day he'll make it number six.

 

[The30YardSlant]

After yesterday it's very difficult for any of us to feel anything but despair towards our team. However dispassionate we may feel today we will always find someone, a play, or something that will refuel the passion we have for this team.

With the Cowboys, no matter how bleak things may be, there is always hope.

It's like caffeine, you just can't stop no matter how hard you try

 

[Cbz40]

It's like caffeine, you just can't stop no matter how hard you try

Exactly, So Get out the coffee pot and let's see this thing through.

 

[windward]

Exactly, So Get out the coffee pot and let's see this thing through.

CBZ-CowboysZone Therapist

 

[Cbz40]

CBZ-CowboysZone Therapist

Yea...right.....

 

[nicodywill]

i just can't quit you dallas cowboys no matter how hard i try

 

[The30YardSlant]

CBZ-CowboysZone Therapist

If by "therapist" you mean "senile caffeine addict with bladder control issues", the yes, he is

 

[The30YardSlant]

Sorry, but I gotta do it:

 

[Cbz40]

If by "therapist" you mean "senile caffeine addict with bladder control issues", the yes, he is

as I said in the other thread......you will get my bill later.

and may my bladder ex.........never mind

 

[The30YardSlant]

as I said in the other thread......you will get my bill later.

and may my bladder ex.........never mind

Well played :laugh2: