I love the Cowboys but I can't stand to watch them

[TRUTH87]

Im one of those young fans who has seen a buncha bad cowboys football for about 13 years now.

I will never stop beeing a cowboy fan bc thats impossible for me. But i will stop throwing $$ away for sunday ticket. This is my last season payin to see this crap. Ill catch the game if it airs in my area. Or watch the highlights on how the cowboys lost yet another game.

 

[coult44]

There is nobody I dislike more in the . If I never heard him, or seen his plastic face on TV again I'd be a happy camper!!!

 

[Cowboys22]

So glad I canceled my Sunday Ticket. I decided after Jerry rewarded Romo with that big contract even after another season ending debacle of an interception that he would get not one more penny from me. No more Cowboys gear, no more trips to Dallas, no more anything that might put money into Jerry's pocket. The game was actually on TV in my area today and I only watched 10 minutes or so. Instead I spent time practicing baseball with my 6 year old son. I will always be a Cowboys fan but no longer being glued to the TV when they are on and hanging on every speck of news feels like a major weight lifted off my shoulders. I encourage everyone and anyone to try it.

 

[Seven]

This franchise makes it way too difficult to enjoy the game. Any one phase screws it up at every turn. Coaching. Owner. Defense. Offense. Personnel. All of it. The culture blueprint has us by the throat. With that said, IMO, the defense and all of its peripherals caved. Again. 27-17 VERY late in the fourth. Are you kidding me? We're stacking alright. Stacking huge piles of.......

 

[dupree89]

This franchise makes it way too difficult to enjoy the game. Any one phase screws it up at every turn. Coaching. Owner. Defense. Offense. Personnel. All of it. The culture blueprint has us by the throat. With that said, IMO, the defense and all of its peripherals caved. Again. 27-17 VERY late in the fourth. Are you kidding me? We're stacking alright. Stacking huge piles of.......

I agree with you, of course, about the defense. BUT....I think we can all agree the offense was supposed to be what made this team go this year....and not being able to sustain a drive and get a first down was really a killer. The defense was the unknown this year, IMO. The offense needed to get a first down and kill the clock.

 

[Direwolf63]

The winning tradition in Dallas is over. Jerry knows that. Thats why he hired a puppet for a coach. Jones is only worried about profits. So long you fill his coffers with money, he is satisfied with losing. The results speak for itself.

I wonder if Jerry considers today a moral victory?

 

[Redball Express]

Unfortunately, yes. I always seem to talk myself into believing we can beat any team we play. In truth, we truly can. However, we can also be beaten by any team, in oh so many heartbreaking unimaginable ways. I'm 51 years old. I've been a Cowboy fan since I was about 8 or 9 years old, so I have had many great years of joying watching the Cowboys, particularly in the 70's and 90's. However, over the past several years, I don't seem to enjoy watching the games anywhere near as much as I once did. It's just not remotely the same. The depression of losing outweighs the joy of winning. That's unhealthy. I, and many other fans I imagine, should probably just stop watching and following, but I know I won't. Is there such a thing as CA (Cowboys Anonymous)????? I have a problem.

The owner has exactly what he wants. A team that sells tickets, gear, and lines his pockets like clock work.

THIS.

 

[Seven]

I agree with you, of course, about the defense. BUT....I think we can all agree the offense was supposed to be what made this team go this year....and not being able to sustain a drive and get a first down was really a killer. The defense was the unknown this year, IMO. The offense needed to get a first down and kill the clock.

And yet again............wait for it............FLAG!!!

Just. Like. Clockwork.

 

[visionary]

This franchise makes it way too difficult to enjoy the game. Any one phase screws it up at every turn. Coaching. Owner. Defense. Offense. Personnel. All of it. The culture blueprint has us by the throat. With that said, IMO, the defense and all of its peripherals caved. Again. 27-17 VERY late in the fourth. Are you kidding me? We're stacking alright. Stacking huge piles of.......

the issue is that the GM and HC are so bad at several core things that the players have to get over the hump in every game

against bad/mediocre teams they can sometimes do it, against good teams, we lose

that is why we are always 8-8

 

[Dhragon]

Actually, One would think so. But that is the position Jerry is in. The owner knows that the Cowboys will continue to be the most popular franchise in football (sales), and top 3 in all of sports, even during years of mediocre and losing seasons. This factor is more problematic because the GM knows it too. No pressure to field a quality team. The owner is making money and the GM can't be held accountable.

There will always be more profit for Jerry if the Boys win, so there is some pressure to field a playoff caliber team. Just not enough pressure to make the really hard decisions ( get a real HC in here, get a real GM, etc.). So Jerry tries to get by with smoke and mirrors and snake oil and he hopes to get lucky one day.

 

[Seven]

the issue is that the GM and HC are so bad at several core things that the players have to get over the hump in every game

against bad/mediocre teams they can sometimes do it, against good teams, we lose

that is why we are always 8-8

Absolutely.

Dallas is in salary cap hell and this is the best team they can field. Hmmmm........

 

[Seven]

There will always be more profit for Jerry if the Boys win, so there is some pressure to field a playoff caliber team. Just not enough pressure to make the really hard decisions ( get a real HC in here, get a real GM, etc.). So Jerry tries to get by with smoke and mirrors and snake oil and he hopes to get lucky one day.

Nope. Jed sells hope. Genius marketing plan cause it works.

 

[WestCoastQB]

Then stop watching them or talking about them on the internet ...... or shut your mouth about it.

Now THAT is a fact filled, intelligent response. Don't worry about the facts...they are just an inconvenience. Thanks.

 

[RanDog1971]

I grew up a Cowboys fan and have big a huge fan my whole life. But lately I watch the games wishing we could be a trust worthy team again. No matter what type of lead we have it's not safe. We seem to let up when we are 10 points up and always find odd ways to lose. I want to believe but the team just let's me down over and over again. It used to be just the post season that this happened. Now it is during the season. One week the offense looks great and the next week they look awful. Then the D looks good and the next week they give up 600+ yards and the most ever to a WR. I am so close to not watching the games for the first time in 40 years. It just kills me each and every week. Sorry to vent but if a lifelong fan like me is at this point what about the young ones who never knew a winning Cowboy team. This is just pitiful and the owner needs to figure out how to change things or his valuable franchise will lose value.

I couldn't have said it better myself. I'm 41 and this is exactly how I feel. I hate my favorite team. I truly know what a Cubs fan feels. The worst part is being a Cowboys fan, we're a target for the media and the rest of the league. Most everyone else loves watching us be "An accident waiting to happen."

 

[Zordon]

So glad I canceled my Sunday Ticket. I decided after Jerry rewarded Romo with that big contract even after another season ending debacle of an interception that he would get not one more penny from me. No more Cowboys gear, no more trips to Dallas, no more anything that might put money into Jerry's pocket. The game was actually on TV in my area today and I only watched 10 minutes or so. Instead I spent time practicing baseball with my 6 year old son. I will always be a Cowboys fan but no longer being glued to the TV when they are on and hanging on every speck of news feels like a major weight lifted off my shoulders. I encourage everyone and anyone to try it.

i really wish i could do this too. i'm 24 yrs old and just so incredibly fed up with this franchise, i cannot even put into words the amount of anger i have after that detroit game. this franchise has done nothing for me yet i keep coming back. cowboys are in my blood. growing up in dallas, i was raised from a toddler to love this team which is why it is difficult to disconnect. it has been nothing but a curse, nothing but disappointment, nothing but embarrassment after embarrassment after embarrassment. just sickening...i wish i could disconnect.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

[quote="FLCowboyFan, post: 5262932, member: 548"]Do the rest of you get sucked in thinking they will win knowing down deep they likely won't? It never ceases to amaze me how disappointed I get.

I know it's very frustrating being a fan of this team lately. But honestly, If I ever decided to stop being a Cowboys fan, I would just stop watching football. I just cannot see myself rooting for any other team.....I just can't.

I tried to root for another NFL team back in '89 when I was furious at Jerry over how he treated Tom Landry. But I just couldn't. There was no way. As awful as that '89 season was, I got sucked in and watched. Of course, good things were ahead at the time, but there was no way to know that then.

I do root for Nebraska in the NCAA, but it's not the same. I grew up in a die-hard Cowboys fan family. My parents started watching in 1960 in the inaugural season and went to games at the Cotton Bowl. I started watching in 1972. I started watching Husker football in 2008 when I moved there. I don't have the long history of watching that team as I do with the Cowboys and I don't have any memories of their championships. I almost completely ignored college football before 2008. But now my college team does stuff that sucks and drives me nuts. On a bad weekend, I get pissed off on Saturday and then the Cowboys piss me off the very next day.

I'm about ready to run an HDMI cable from a computer to my TV and then put Madden on autoplay with the settings put heavily to the Cowboys advantage. Just watch a computerized game every week so that reality doesn't drive me nuts.

 

[Ender]

Im one of those young fans who has seen a buncha bad cowboys football for about 13 years now.

I will never stop beeing a cowboy fan bc thats impossible for me. But i will stop throwing $$ away for sunday ticket. This is my last season payin to see this crap. Ill catch the game if it airs in my area. Or watch the highlights on how the cowboys lost yet another game.

I feel for the younger fans who didn't get to see the cowboy teams of the 90s

 

[Rockytop6]

Do the rest of you get sucked in thinking they will win knowing down deep they likely won't? It never ceases to amaze me how disappointed I get.

The same here! In the peanut's cartoon Lucy, year after year, would tell Charlie Brown she would hold the football for him to kick it and at the last second pull it away. Regardless of her duping him over and over, she would convince him it would be different this time, and he would fall for it again. The Cowboys' fans are made up of Charlie Browns just like me. I fall for the hype and get my hopes up for the draft and Lucy does her thing. Then I talk myself into thinking that the draft was really a good one and I get hyped up for the season and Lucy does it again. The last two years my hopes of making the playoffs ended with 8-8 seasons. Now it is mid season and we stand at 4-4 just like the last two seasons, and yet I hear people talking about a 10-6 season. I am one Charlie Brown that is skeptical. Whether Lucy will beguile me about the rest of the season is the question.

 

[yimyammer]

Unfortunately, yes. I always seem to talk myself into believing we can beat any team we play. In truth, we truly can. However, we can also be beaten by any team, in oh so many heartbreaking unimaginable ways. I'm 51 years old. I've been a Cowboy fan since I was about 8 or 9 years old, so I have had many great years of joying watching the Cowboys, particularly in the 70's and 90's. However, over the past several years, I don't seem to enjoy watching the games anywhere near as much as I once did. It's just not remotely the same. The depression of losing outweighs the joy of winning. That's unhealthy. I, and many other fans I imagine, should probably just stop watching and following, but I know I won't. Is there such a thing as CA (Cowboys Anonymous)????? I have a problem.

I got the same problem, I'm 47 and the post salary cap era of Cowboys football has been excrusiating

The Cowboys get no advantage whatsoever from being the most popular, highest valued team. The salary cap takes away the potential to outspend other teams and the notoriety motivates every team to beat us and rub our noses in the sand at every opportunity.

It sucks!

 

[pjtoadie]

lol the Cowboys are as entertaining as anything on TV today. The problem is it's comedy for everyone else and unimagineable agony for our fans.

Post of the day! So sad but true!