Home Field Advantage?

[Picksix]

Are the Cowboys really 1-6 at home this year? That just seems unimaginable to me. I guess I can understand, since I was at the Bears game, and the Bears fans were making more noise than Cowboys fans did. So what changes can be made to try to make it more of a home field advantage?

 

[Future]

Are the Cowboys really 1-6 at home this year? That just seems unimaginable to me. I guess I can understand, since I was at the Bears game, and the Bears fans were making more noise than Cowboys fans did. So what changes can be made to try to make it more of a home field advantage?

Cheaper seats, cheaper beer. Other than that Texas Stadium will remain the same.

 

[TheCoolFan]

That place is so spread out and is so big that it probably feels more like a neutral site for opposing teams than an actual road game.

 

[Arch Stanton]

Cheaper seats, cheaper beer. Other than that Texas Stadium will remain the same.

 

[Future]

Texas Stadium...Cowboys Stadium...whatever.

I've made trips from NY to both, and both times I was utterly unimpressed with the crowd.

 

[theebs]

Texas Stadium...Cowboys Stadium...whatever.

I've made trips from NY to both, and both times I was utterly unimpressed with the crowd.

got this is tiring.

Texas stadium was great. The new stadium is only good for divisional games. Its an enormous building and if everyone isnt into it you dont get the feel.

Texas stadium was great though, I have no idea what game you went to there or when, but I always felt it was good.

I can understand the critique of the new place though, outside of divisional games its been pretty bad.

 

[ETex]

Are the Cowboys really 1-6 at home this year? That just seems unimaginable to me. I guess I can understand, since I was at the Bears game, and the Bears fans were making more noise than Cowboys fans did. So what changes can be made to try to make it more of a home field advantage?

Short of a playoff game or an end of the year game with playoff implications, it's hard to get up for the bears. Every team we face treats us like their rehearsal superbowl, fans included (even when we suck).

Go see an NFC East game; totally different crowd/vibe.

 

[Future]

got this is tiring.

Texas stadium was great. The new stadium is only good for divisional games. Its an enormous building and if everyone isnt into it you dont get the feel.

Texas stadium was great though, I have no idea what game you went to there or when, but I always felt it was good.

I can understand the critique of the new place though, outside of divisional games its been pretty bad.

Maybe it's because I went to a Browns game when Eddie George was the starting running back...but twice I got told to sit down. I was 16 or 17 and remember being pissed off that our fans weren't more into it. Yes it was kind of a crappy game, but it was close and I was being told to sit down. That will forever give me a bad impression.

The other game was SD last year. Absolutely awful.

 

[theebs]

Maybe it's because I went to a Browns game when Eddie George was the starting running back...but twice I got told to sit down. I was 16 or 17 and remember being pissed off that our fans weren't more into it. Yes it was kind of a crappy game, but it was close and I was being told to sit down. That will forever give me a bad impression.

The other game was SD last year. Absolutely awful.

the san diego game was bad last year, that was the ******** 3d game.

but you are way way off on that browns game. That was the 04 home opener and it was a great day, the game was back and forth, came down to an onside kick and if I remember correctly winslow broke his leg on the onside.

In fact I loved that game, we had the flea flicker to keyshawn and the fake punt to dexter coakley.

It was also a noon game if I remember correctly. Noon games here are always a little timid compared to later starts, but I remember that game being good.

 

[ETex]

the san diego game was bad last year, that was the ******** 3d game.

but you are way way off on that browns game. That was the 04 home opener and it was a great day, the game was back and forth, came down to an onside kick and if I remember correctly winslow broke his leg on the onside.

In fact I loved that game, we had the flea flicker to keyshawn and the fake punt to dexter coakley.

It was also a noon game if I remember correctly. Noon games here are always a little timid compared to later starts, but I remember that game being good.

I was at that game; you're both right, it sucked.

My fondest memory was when they turned the 3D junk off and the crowd made more noise than they had the whole game. :laugh1:

 

[Future]

the san diego game was bad last year, that was the ******** 3d game.

but you are way way off on that browns game. That was the 04 home opener and it was a great day, the game was back and forth, came down to an onside kick and if I remember correctly winslow broke his leg on the onside.

In fact I loved that game, we had the flea flicker to keyshawn and the fake punt to dexter coakley.

It was also a noon game if I remember correctly. Noon games here are always a little timid compared to later starts, but I remember that game being good.

We must have been in different sections for that Browns game. All I remember is a bunch of Browns fans being rowdy and me being told to sit down by some lady. Maybe that just blinded me from the rest I don't remember.

I was at that game; you're both right, it sucked.

My fondest memory was when they turned the 3D junk off and the crowd made more noise than they had the whole game. :laugh1:

:laugh2: Yea, it's sad that that's true.

 

[theebs]

I was at that game; you're both right, it sucked.

My fondest memory was when they turned the 3D junk off and the crowd made more noise than they had the whole game. :laugh1:

the crowd was flat all game and then when they started to get into it ware got hurt, it flattened out what was left of us making noise.

 

[Future]

the crowd was flat all game and then when they started to get into it ware got hurt, it flattened out what was left of us making noise.

I seem to remember it being super loud the play after Ware got hurt, but then they gave up a first down and the crowd never came back.

 

[theebs]

We must have been in different sections for that Browns game. All I remember is a bunch of Browns fans being rowdy and me being told to sit down by some lady. Maybe that just blinded me from the rest I don't remember.


:laugh2: Yea, it's sad that that's true.

there is no doubt, you are judging the stadium that day through your frustration of somone asking you to sit down. That was a good day out there, it was warm, it was the home opener, the new toy julius jones was going to play his first game...in which he got hurt........

I can remember all the games from the stadium, I think if I try hard enough I can still smell them...! in 6 seasons of going to every game there the only games I remember a bad from the crowd were the dec 04 game against the saints and the 05 rams game.

The rest of the time that was a tiny stadium that was into it.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Are the Cowboys really 1-6 at home this year? That just seems unimaginable to me. I guess I can understand, since I was at the Bears game, and the Bears fans were making more noise than Cowboys fans did. So what changes can be made to try to make it more of a home field advantage?

The problem is that the stadium is "too big", seriously.

I mean, it is so spread out and so large of an area, that it is really hard to generate much crowd noise. Go to stadiums like Minny, New Orleans, Atlanta, ect...and it is deafening.


Just look at the lack of false starts in our stadium this year. That is really the telling sign of crowd noise, how many false starts you create. I dont know the numbers, but I would bet we are near the bottom of the league in creating false starts at our stadium.

 

[ETex]

there is no doubt, you are judging the stadium that day through your frustration of somone asking you to sit down. That was a good day out there, it was warm, it was the home opener, the new toy julius jones was going to play his first game...in which he got hurt........

I can remember all the games from the stadium, I think if I try hard enough I can still smell them...! in 6 seasons of going to every game there the only games I remember a bad from the crowd were the dec 04 game against the saints and the 05 rams game.

The rest of the time that was a tiny stadium that was into it.

I try to make a point to skip out on the saints games; the crowd is about 1/2 and 1/2 and their fans are the worst! I'm too old to go to jail. The 06? game with Payton as their new coach when they destroyed us was an awful game to be at.

 

[theebs]

I try to make a point to skip out on the saints games; the crowd is about 1/2 and 1/2 and their fans are the worst! I'm too old to go to jail. The 06? game with Payton as their new coach when they destroyed us was an awful game to be at.

trust me there were not many saints fans there. That bandwagon wasnt filled up yet, and at that moment we were still in it. Had we beaten the saints that day we might have snuck in the back door on the 6 seed that year.

And if I recall, right up until he left parcells referred to that game as a dissapointing one because the players didnt understand what was at stake and let it slip through their fingers that day, literally when stallworth had a game clinching td much like jacksons today.