How Did You Become A Fan?

[Miller]

Hometown. My Mom is from Baltimore, my Dad upstate NY. They met in Houston and after moving around Texas, went back to Baltimore. My Mom was an old time Colts fan with Johnny U. (side note: She even went on some dates with HOF 3rd Baseman Brooks Robinson from the Orioles). I am the youngest of 5 and was born in Baltimore but the family moved to Ft. Worth when I was 1-2. That was 1971-72 and they've lived there ever since. So I was brought up in school and town with Cowboys fans and that is all I ever remember being from around 76 on. Funny too because until the Jimmy era my family was still a little partial to teams up East or whomever played the Cowboys. So those late 70s SBs was me and maybe a brother vs household. My Mom thought Landry had no personality..lol. Now all 7 of us are fans but I'm the only one that has been that way since the early days.

 

[Jstopper]

Technically I was born as a Cowboys fan, lived with my grandparents til I was 6, and my grandad is the biggest cowboys fan ever. All throughout my kid and teenage years I played football in city leagues but I didn't really like to watch it on tv, because I didn't understand enough of the game. Oddly enough I got really serious with this girl i was dating my jr year of high school (2007) and her dad was a die-hard cowboys fan. Sure enough I did what any teenage boy wanting the approval of his gf's father did. I delved myself into all things cowboys, old youtube videos, old classic games, highlights, statistics everythinng I could find, it was like an addiction. It re-ignited the old cowboys flame my grandfather had instilled in me, and i haven't missed a game since '07.

 

[jobberone]

This probably gets done every year and I never tire of it.

 

[WV Cowboy]

This probably gets done every year and I never tire of it.

I was just wondering how often I have seen this same thread. LOL

 

[jobberone]

I was just wondering how often I have seen this same thread. LOL

I said probably because I'm not certain its every year. But quite often at the least. I love it.

 

[Apollo Creed]

Born and raised in SC, Pops was a huge fan, carried the legacy down to me - just like I will to my son. Loved Dallas so much I moved out to Texas.

I enjoy threads like these, takes us outside of the minutia of each 'season' or 'era' and lets you see the bigger picture of being a 'fan'.

 

[DallasEast]

All i kin here is crickets at your "response."
Sup?
I guess you are not gonna thank me for the fruit basket and bio of Eleanor Roosevelt?

It's hard being serious with you. You were the intended cricket.

Please leave the avocados out of the next fruit basket. They give me gas. And for the last time, Gimme! It's Bess! B-e-s-s T-r-u-m-a-n. She was way sexier than Eleanor ever was. Everybody knows those Missouri girls are all that and then some! hubba hubba!

 

[jobberone]

Like most because of my dad. Dad was a big Bob Lilly fan and anytime the Cowboys were playing he would ask me to watch the game with him. I took to the game of football like a fish in water. Since I started watching the Cowboys in 1965 I have only missed 1 game including pre-season and that was due to a death in the family. I have been fortunate enough to go to the Super Bowl and see the Cowboys, many playoff games and have gone to every Thanksgiving Day game they have played.

I'm green with envy.

 

[erod]

You know Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark, not in Sweden?

Ah yes, I took a cruise ship from Copenhagen to Stockholm. Typed too fast.

 

[Rainy]

On her, .. or the Cowboys?

Just asking.

It didn't work out with her but the Cowboys did gain a fan

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Well, was pretty simple. The Dr. slapped my backside and what came out was Filthy Eagle Hobbitses!

 

[WV Cowboy]

I said probably because I'm not certain its every year. But quite often at the least. I love it.

I was thinking more often than once a year. LOL

Seems like I have shared my story quite a few times.

I have even had a poster bring up something about how I became a Cowboys fan in a later discussion.

 

[casmith07]

When I was 4 years I old I saw this movie and everything Cowboys just clicked for me. Been a die-hard fan ever since. I live in Western NY and love all Dallas teams. Funny story.

I, to this day, am still upset that the Cowboys lost that game.

 

[Doomsday101]

I'm green with envy.

The Super Bowl I went to was 1976 SB X Dallas vs Pitt. Tickets cost 30 bucks. The section we sat in was nothing but Steeler fans. The week leading up the game the Cowboys were staying in Ft Lauderdale and we drove up to the Hotel they were staying in. Shortly after getting their the team bus pulled up and we got to meet all the Cowboys and coach Landry.

 

[BigStar]

Awesome movie man! Spike was awesome lol. This big bully wearing a star on the helmet vs a bunch of idiots just made me like the Cowboys. Interesting way to like a football team isn't it? haha

Oddly enough, agree with your take 100%. Never rooted for the little guy and root for the bad guys in movies

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

It's hard being serious with you. You were the intended cricket.

Please leave the avocados out of the next fruit basket. They give me gas. And for the last time, Gimme! It's Bess! B-e-s-s T-r-u-m-a-n. She was way sexier than Eleanor ever was. Everybody knows those Missouri girls are all that and then some! hubba hubba!

Let me say this about Eleanor: She was more man than the average man. I say she could take Bess in two rounds and still half time to deal with world peace.

 

[TheCowboy]

I, to this day, am still upset that the Cowboys lost that game.

And Romo wasn't even the QB. Crazy.

I kid.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Hometown. My Mom is from Baltimore, my Dad upstate NY. They met in Houston and after moving around Texas, went back to Baltimore. My Mom was an old time Colts fan with Johnny U. (side note: She even went on some dates with HOF 3rd Baseman Brooks Robinson from the Orioles). I am the youngest of 5 and was born in Baltimore but the family moved to Ft. Worth when I was 1-2. That was 1971-72 and they've lived there ever since. So I was brought up in school and town with Cowboys fans and that is all I ever remember being from around 76 on. Funny too because until the Jimmy era my family was still a little partial to teams up East or whomever played the Cowboys. So those late 70s SBs was me and maybe a brother vs household. My Mom thought Landry had no personality..lol. Now all 7 of us are fans but I'm the only one that has been that way since the early days.

Mom was right. Tom had little or no personality. But he did half football smarts up until the early to mid-1980s.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Mom was right. Tom had little or no personality. But he did half football smarts up until the early to mid-1980s.

The public persona may have been that he had no personality. He may have been that way in front of NFL cameras, but I disagree.

In many interviews that I have seen of him I see personality. I saw him speak at a Fellowship of Christian Athletes dinner and he was full of personality. Funny and very engaging.

After the dinner, .. I also got to shake hands with him and talk with him for maybe 90 seconds and he was very personable. I watched him interact with others that night as well.

He was a quiet and reserved man in public, but he had personality. JMO

 

[Miller]

Mom was right. Tom had little or no personality. But he did half football smarts up until the early to mid-1980s.

That was just one of her determining factors on why she didn't convert back then.