Growing Up When Was Your Pinnacle Cowboy Moment?

[Alexander]

1974 Thanksgiving game...

Good one.

It was not even because it was really that great of a win, it was just incredible to do it with a nobody like Longley.

No team have I hated more than any Commander team coached by George Allen and to stick it to him like that was pretty good.

 

[remdak]

Lilly's sack of Griese in Super Bowl VI for about an 80 yard loss.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

Mine was the Super Bowl against the Colts. Super Bowl 5. My Stepfather was a rabid Colts fan. I bet a dollar at halftime that the Cowboys would win. Lost the bet, but gained a team till this day will be mine till I die! This loss was my pinnacle moment for my team going forward. And Yours?

Same here. That was the first full NFL game I ever watched even though I followed the Cowboys; it left me wanting more.

 

[CATCH17]

Beating the Niners at Candlestick in 92.

I remember that entire day and I was only 6 years old.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Ice Bowl

 

[dragon_mikal]

Beating the Lions last year in the playoffs. I was so happy and truly felt the team a had a great shot of getting to the Super Bowl.

There haven't been a lot of high points since I started watching the team.

 

[remdak]

Same here. That was the first full NFL game I ever watched even though I followed the Cowboys; it left me wanting more.

All I remember about the game at the time was that I cried when Dallas lost.
What was amazing about the game was that Chuck Howley, a defensive player for the losing team, won Super Bowl MVP.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

All I remember about the game at the time was that I cried when Dallas lost.

Me too and I don't really know why.

 

[guag]

When Emmitt Smith became the all-time leading rusher in NFL history in 2002. I only started watching the Cowboys in the 2nd half of the 90s (I'm 31), so I missed all the Super Bowls by an inch. Ugh.

 

[guag]

Beating the Niners at Candlestick in 92.

I remember that entire day and I was only 6 years old.

I wish I was actually interested in football in 92... I was 8 and at the time I didn't want anything to do with sports lol.

 

[Luther]

Ice bowl ... so close!

 

[gambit187]

This brings up bad memories especially with what is going on with racial tensions but.....
My first NFL game I was six, it was 1976 (yeah telling my age). My stepfather who loved the Browns and never forced us to have a favorite team. Took us to a Cowboys vs Eagles games....I remember in the second qtr getting one of those cheap flag/pennant type things.I remember it being cold and being called the N-word several times and even spit at by some Eagle fans during and after the game..

The Cowboys kicked *** 26-7....been hating Eagle fans every since.

 

[RonSpringsdaman20]

super bowl XXVII.... after crying with Danny White as small child, after 3-13, & 1-15.... all the kids at school making fun of my cowboys starter jacket...
they finally did it....

 

[Eddie]

I became a Cowboys fan in 1978 when I watched them beat up on the Rams in the NFC-CG 20-0. I then watched them lose to Pittsburgh in SB 13. I was 8 years old.

But the memories which burn the deepest:

- 1980 NFC-CG - Wilber Montegomery breaks loose in a tight game, and puts the game out of reach for us in a frozen Philly.
- 1981 NFC-CG - Gary Hogeboom's pass is blocked, picked up, and returned for a TD against Washington.
- 1982 NFC-CG - Not the CATCH, but Danny White taking the sack and fumbling. This was a play after Drew Pearson caught a 30 yard pass.

Those burn the deepest for an impressionable junior high school student.

 

[waving monkey]

Being an old cat already but the 1992 conference championship game against the 49ners.
I ran through the locked screen front door outside screaming I became a bouncing roman candle.

 

[CapnCook]

2016 - Romo, Witten and Garrett getting a ring to shut up the haters.

 

[big dog cowboy]

When Emmitt Smith became the all-time leading rusher in NFL history in 2002. I only started watching the Cowboys in the 2nd half of the 90s (I'm 31), so I missed all the Super Bowls by an inch. Ugh.

Man that sucks. Sorry. At least there is this invention called You Tube.

 

[starfrombirth]

Emmitt with his broken collarbone against the giants, 1993. I live in NY so ......felt good

This one was close but mine was actually Dorsett's 99yd run against the Vikings. I was a fan before that but that's when I became a FAN!

 

[CF74]

I thoroughly enjoyed the 80's but getting revenge against the Steal-ers in the Super Bowl was bitter sweet for me...

 

[guag]

Man that sucks. Sorry. At least there is this invention called You Tube.

And it is a beautiful thing. I can spend hours at a time watching old clips on Youtube (not necessarily just about Cowboys/football).

Actually, we did have a VHS of Super Bowl XXX for a while in the late 90s (my dad recorded it, it wasn't store bought so the quality wasn't great) and I did watch that countless times. Back then, just from this tape, I was convinced that Larry Brown was a future Hall of Famer.