While you were flinging soda at your TV I was dealing with my guts being wrenched over the play.
This is something that many 'newbies' don't understand. Some of us have been Cowboys' fans since they started. I was invited by Jerry Tubbs to attend the draft at Valley Ranch when Michael Irvin was drafted. I was with the media people and had the privilege of asking Coach Landry a question. I took my son to the SB in Miami and when they lost I don't remember uttering a word while driving all the way back home I was so devastated.
In the past there have been times when I made a realistic (negative) comment, I was told to find another team. I quit posting or seldom posted because you don't have give and take where dedicated fans can take different views or be critical out of their (passion). I usually limit my comments to only a sentence ranging from a question to sarcasm. But I do know that I don't watch the games or heckle the way many fans do. I enjoy watching the execution of a well designed plan or a great defensive plan that is game changing. I enjoy the game rather than being obnoxious or hindering other people from enjoying the game.
When most everybody placed Dallas in the win column against Detroit I posted that I thought Detroit was being underestimated and that Dallas would have a tough time winning. Sorry about the long post, but people like Gimme and I are dyed in the wool, long time fans and have paid our dues. When some of you that shoot anybody that says anything negative need to know - we were in this before most of you were ever born, and we will still be standing when the smoke clears.
Well said. But duck. There is a faction here that quickly translates dissent to disloyalty and then the mob gets the pitchforks and torches and wants to run someone out or down.
I am all for passion. Witten show it, romo show it, Lee show it. That passion comes on the football field.
My passion shows only on this forum where we can put forth a premise and then get feedback.
That the feedback is 90% negative shows a passion to back drama and shouting on the sidelines. That has never scored a single point.
And neither half my criticisms score a single point. the point is, aside from the angular point atop my head, is this: Being a prima dona is not the Cowboy way. If every player show his passion like Dez there would be 50 mens throwing tantrums on the sidelines at a given point and it was descend into madness.
My other point is that Jason, Romo, Witten and Jerra don't need to defend that behavior. They should, like when a child screams in public, ignore it but discuss it rationally LATER. If not, they become enablers and believers that the squeekiest wheel needs attention.
The entitlement of some players is unseeming.
True pros take setbacks in stride and then try their darndednest on the field. Then at practice.
Being a pro is difficult. Halfing poise is difficult.
Screaming when one is unhappy is not passion. It is self-serving and prima donish.
I feel faint because this response was so darned good.
heh.
