Growing Up When Was Your Pinnacle Cowboy Moment?

[Carl23]

I realized I was a true fan, at age 12, when Dan Marino knocked the Boys from the playoffs in 1984 Week 16 MNF game.

I cried that night and was depressed the rest of the week. Just terrible.

 

[Satchel89]

A 70 yard slant from Aikman to Harper.

You beat me to it. What an amazing play.

 

[JJB500]

The 93 NFC Championship game, was great watching the total beatdown of the 49ers! For me was finally payback for the catch in 81 which I have to watch hundreds of times per year! The 92 game was great but wasn't enough....... Was also great seeing the Bills knockout Joe Montana earlier in the day too!

 

[w8lifter]

Mine was SB XII over the Broncos. First SB I remember watching. Plus, my brother and I had that electric football game with the buzzing men, and the two teams were Dallas and Pittsburgh. He was a big Pitt fan, so I was always Dallas.

Mine, too. I was only 18 then. I lived on Gaston Ave in North Dallas and went to a Sports Bar to watch the game. The drinking age was only 18 at the time. I remember this one guy groaning when the Donks got intercepted and he got his *** kicked by another avid Cowboys fan. Good times....

 

[erod]

Saw Dallas beat Miami in the Super Bowl. That was the first.

The season they beat Denver was went it rooted in my soul.

Then after a long dry spell through college and whatnot, watching that 90s team get pieced together was a special time.

But that day in San Francisco was the best day of them all.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

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?

For me, growing up, as Jason Garrett would say, is a process.

But mein zenith tv moment was during the Cowboys-49ers game, January 1993. I can just imagine it now

OK, mein recollection from mein veluminous brains: Mere minutes left in the game. Aikman thow a deep slant to Harper who go for a 70-yard gain to the San Francisco 6. I still half a video tape of the game. On the sidelines you can see a 49er assistant wif his hands on his head as to say, he say: "We half lost the game!" Three plays later, the Cowboys score on 6-yard pass from Aikman to Kelvin Martin. 3:40 left is left in the game and I am toasting with glasses of beer. In the post-game conference Jimma say, he say: "How about them Cowboys!"

Mein 'Boys were back. And a grateful legion of fans say to Jimma, you da man!

 

[Plumfool]

Dec 28 1975. I'm three years old. Only reason I remember is my grandfather started going crazy after 88s catch. Watched every Cowboy game ever since.

 

[Garrettop]

Super Bowl XXX. The whole Commander lovin family gathered around to watch Neil O'Donnell hand the Cowboys another Lombardi.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

1991, going into Washington and beating the 11 - 0 Commanders. That game had everything.

Cowboys were huge underdogs, people were saying the Skins had a legitimate chance to go undefeated. Irvin vs Green, nobody was throwing at Darrell Green but Troy and Michael went right at him and Irvin ate him up. Multiple 4th down attempts, including (I think) 4th and 9 at one point. A surprise onside kick, recovered and followed immediately with a TD bomb to Harper. Troy got hurt and Beuerlein came in to hold on for the win.

I was at this game. Great answer! This was really a defining moment in setting up our SB run the following year!

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

I realized I was a true fan, at age 12, when Dan Marino knocked the Boys from the playoffs in 1984 Week 16 MNF game.

I cried that night and was depressed the rest of the week. Just terrible.

I remember this game.. Marino ran through our secondary like a hot knife through better. Duper and Clayton were too much.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

Fan since around "the catch" era... I'd have to say the 92' conference championship vs the 9'ers. It was supposed to be "a year too early" for us. We weren't supposed to win at Candlestick.... that game... the opponent.. the newness and the anticipation of a young dynasty before proof. The slant to Harper to ... what a call... This young brash, talented, deep team and it's coach...

 

[CowboyRoy]

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?

Deon Sanders pass interference on Michael Irvin in the NFC Championship game that they didn't call. We would have made that incredible comeback and won the game. Would have been 4 SB's in a row. Not sure that was pinnacle, but that was the memorable play.

If I had to pick a great moment, it was that Emmitt Smith game against the Giants where he separated his shoulder and still played and we won the game. Dont remember if that was playoffs. I dont think it was playoffs but may have been for the NFC East crown.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Fan since around "the catch" era... I'd have to say the 92' conference championship vs the 9'ers. It was supposed to be "a year too early" for us. We weren't supposed to win at Candlestick.... that game... the opponent.. the newness and the anticipation of a young dynasty before proof. The slant to Harper to ... what a call... This young brash, talented, deep team and it's coach...

Yah, real nice one. The slant to Harper. Epic moment. Jimmy Johnson with balls making that call.

 

[JoeBoBBY]

Last game of the 1979 season...classic Staubach, best NFL game I've ever seen. I was already a huge fan, but that moment made me a die hard fan.

1. I am 9 years old. Family is in Florida on Vacation. Old man finds the game on the radio for me as were driving around sight seeing, etc etc. No internet, smart phones, instant information. Score 34-21 late in the 4th, Old man sings "turn out the lights the partys over", and we go to a buffet and figured the Boys lost. Next morning , by chance, the local news station is on TV and updates on the game. What a treat! I will never forget the look on my old mans face. He was a Browns Fan.

2. The Catch. Watching that play as it happened, I was sure Too Tall had Montana and the game was over.

3. 1985 Bears game. Lost 44-0. I wasn't used to seeing the Cowboys lose like that. It was a shock for me at 15 years of age.

4. 70 yard slant to Harper. We were actually going to the dance!! Yeah there was time left in the game, but everybody watching that game knew, that was it......you could feel it in the air and I was watching it on TV. My Cowboys were going to the Super Bowl.

5. 1997 Packers game. Lost 45-17. We were done and I think most of us knew it, but we still had hope, at least I did, that things weren't as bad as we thought, and the Cowboys would return to being dominant. They didn't. And this game was the funeral.

6. It was a Catch. Because it actually was a catch and anybody arguing different is flat out wrong. We were just as good as any team last year and I bet we would've beat Seattle.

Last year was special. Not only because it was a surprise and we did well, but because the changes we saw are going to be long lasting. That wasn't a fluke year. It wasn't flash year or a lucky year. This teams culture and attitude has changed. And for the better. Now, we aren't a dominant team like are glory years with Smith , Aikman and Irvin. We knew those teams were going to the dance. But this team is tough. They might not win, but they are going to be a hard team to beat.

 

[MWH1967]

this..... I get chills just listening to it even today. I was a 9 year old running back for my school team. won the county championship that year. I was hooked for life.

 

[Alexander]

this..... I get chills just listening to it even today. I was a 9 year old running back for my school team. won the county championship that year. I was hooked for life.

I feel sorry for this generation of fans who have been subjected to awful football introductions from computer generated robots and even worse, Cee-Lo.

 

[Longboysfan]

Winning SB VI.

 

[AsthmaField]

Super bowl 27 in Pasedena.

Most of those players had suffered through the 1-15 season in 1989, had worked and worked to get good and then with the epic beat down (52-17) of a really good Buffalo team, they strutted right into a Dynasty.

I still remember the headlines the next day. "D Is For Dynasty".

 

[windward]

Which time? Call me weird but the game in Candlestick was more exciting than satisfying. The following year in Texas Stadium felt so good to do it again.

It was the 92 game. First time I saw Dallas advancing to the Super Bowl, so it was special.

 

[Alexander]

It was the 92 game. First time I saw Dallas advancing to the Super Bowl, so it was special.

That is why I said call me weird. I found the 1993 game a lot more satisfying as a win, simply because of my disgust for the 49ers and the fact they still never seemed to acknowledge we came right out and whipped them on their own homefield the year before.

Then again, I had already seen the team advance to the Super Bowl before. It was almost like we took our rightful place again.