I'm Not Kidding, I'm Starting To Get Excited

[casmith07]

I'm glad to be able to watch my favorite team compete, but I refuse to assign my liveliness or excitement to a sports team. There's more to life.

That being said, Go Cowboys!

 

[panchucko]

I am as excited as always, even though I am not an wanna be GM, or coach or owner or reporter or someone that is just so critical of the team. I still enjoy the entertainment of the game. Every year i go into it thinking why not us this year. Not every team that has gone from last to first was built with known superstars. All players have to start some where, and I hope they start thier journey to stardom on the Dallas Cowboys.

Let's go Cowboys is all i can say

 

[dallazcowboyz9]

I know how many times the cowboys have let me down. I keep coming back though! Like an abusive relationship! They keep telling me things are going to be different so I keep coming back and letting my heart get crushed. Bring on the football season!!! I have hope this time of year every year. The cowboys wouldn't be the first team with low expectations to come out on top! Lets gooooo!!!!!

 

[Nation]

There have been seven seasons where Romo has started more than seven games. All 7 of those the Cowboys have either made the playoffs or been in contention for a playoff spot in Week 17. Given my low expectations for the defense, if we can go 8 for 8 there I'll be a happy camper. I don't like our chances against quarterbacks like Brees who you have to pressure or you have no shot. But we have enough crappy teams and crappy quarterbacks on the schedule where we should be able to outscore teams and make things interesting. Hopefully when we run into a great defense we catch some breaks. Bowman on the PUP list and Aldon Smith suspended is a start.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

Just re-upped my NFL Preseason Live. It's strange that no Cowboys preseason games are being nationally televised this year. NFL Network tidbits aren't enough. I need the whole game live. Seeing which rookies (and second year guys) emerge during these games is always a treat.

 

[jazzcat22]

I know how many times the cowboys have let me down. I keep coming back though! Like an abusive relationship! They keep telling me things are going to be different so I keep coming back and letting my heart get crushed. Bring on the football season!!! I have hope this time of year every year. The cowboys wouldn't be the first team with low expectations to come out on top! Lets gooooo!!!!!

Every year, fans of 31 teams get their hearts crushed. Even for the team that loses the SB. To get there than lose, yes one can say, they made it. But yet the heart is still momentarily crushed.
for teams not expecting to make the playoffs, but do, only to lose in the playoffs. Those fans can say it was a successful season to build on. but yet, there's that sinknig feeling right after the loss.

But this is why, as you say, we keep coming back, why not us this year.

 

[jazzcat22]

Just re-upped my NFL Preseason Live. It's strange that no Cowboys preseason games are being nationally televised this year. NFL Network tidbits aren't enough. I need the whole game live. Seeing which rookies (and second year guys) emerge during these games is always a treat.

I think a few times they were on the NFLN, but really weren't advertised IIRC. I went to watch on the CBS DFW local channel, but when changing stations during commercials, they were also on NFLN. But I never seen it listed.

 

[erod]

The only thing that makes the blistering Texas summer heat bearable is that it signals the coming of football.

 

[jazzcat22]

The only thing that makes the blistering Texas summer heat bearable is that it signals the coming of football.

I believe the conditioning drills are at Valley Ranch, and not at Jerry World, so they will be doing these today in that heat...hopefully no hammy's are pulled or strained...
Hopefully they will take them to Jerry World instead. Texas heat or cooler Oxnard, or Jerry World.....we shall see.

 

[cowboyschmps3]

Yeah can't wait for all this too start really excited too watch the news and too watch the intro show on Saturday

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Tuesday the players report to Oxnard for Training Camp. Thursday they start practicing. Tweets are going to start pouring in. Articles are going to start being daily fare. Videos will make a comeback on the mother ship. Excited? Just a little bit. I don't expect to get much work done this week. Some of it will be due to lack of sleep. Some of it will be due to surfing like a crazy man.

The biggest disappointment for me heading into Camp is the loss of Sean Lee. Not going to lie to you, he is probably my 2nd favorite current Cowboys player behind Witten. I like consummate professionals. Does it amaze me that he moved ahead of Tony and Dez on my list? It does a little, but he actually did. Ware was up there in 2nd, but he's gone. That moves everyone up.

Every year injuries in Camp and Pre Season temper my enthusiasm a little. The only thing I don't want are critical injuries. It's football, and they happen. I know that, and I still get down when they do.

Why am I excited? Because I love this game. I love everything about it. The sights, the smells, the sounds. I used to love the pain of the early practices. I know how dumb that sounds, but I somehow felt more alive when those familiar aches were back. I used to get to this point in a calendar year and I wanted to put on pads and go get hit. I wanted to hit someone too, but man I wanted to get hit. I wanted to pick myself up off the ground in some kind of symbolic rebirth. I'm 50 now and I don't want that any more. I guess with age does come some wisdom.

I'm excited as hell to see the video footage of Brad Sham introducing the team. I want to see Press Conferences again, even though I acknowledge that Jason doesn't say anything. I continue to be amused at how well he plays the press. I occasionally get to be thrilled when they ask a good question and he opens up. Those moments are rare. I'm ready to even hear their bad questions. Every injured player is day to day and they will see. They hope he gets back to practice soon. Practice is important.

I wonder who will be the dinged up players this year. The same ones who always are? Someone new? It doesn't matter really. Everyone gets some time in the tub as they work their bodies back into football shape.

We as fans work ourselves back into football shape in a different way. We get our hopes back up. We start re-arranging our evening schedules. We start bringing back little used over the off season websites to our surveillance modes. This is what we are supposed to do. We're supposed to go through every gamut of emotions. We're supposed to experience highs and lows. We're back on the roller coaster. I don't know about you, but I like that a lot more than a merry go round. I'll take the highs and lows. It's what makes it all so exciting.

Football is back in just a few days. Oh how I've missed it.

I too am excited!
Ah, the clack-clack of shoulder pads hitting shoulder pads. The thuds of helmet agin helmet.
It aint only cowboys football that get me excited it is the whole dadgum stew of NFL, college, high school and junior high football that gets me excited. Football for the little fry too.
It is this autumnal thing. Football camp signals the awakening of the spirit. It signals that our dreary post-NBA spring has begun a new. Like a freshly cooked tortilla. Like a loaf of granny's camp bread on the table. Like the first drink of pappy's squeezings that he will tweak and embolden before it go to "market."
This time of the year is the time when cheerleaders begin to perfect their kicks, when players, rusty from winter and spring, limber up. When hope spring anew in our hearts and tiny brains.
To me, camp is the official beginning of the year. The grass is still green, not yet yeilding to the frozen tundra, and the gatorade is made by the gallon instead of the quarts for spring limbering up.
Ah, the smell of football equipment seeing first daylight since December. Physicals in tiny burgs, held by the town's lone doctor. Or in Dallas, made by appointment and managers and agents in tow.
There is nothing I do not like about this time of the year. When we all look forward to the coming season of gladiators. Of Friday night small town clashes from which writers describe the games in painful and inarticulate ways. When college writers pen their stories in less inarticulate ways and the big guys pen their stories about players who in their spare time, walk old ladies across the street and visit injured construction workers in hospitals.
The smell of irrigation water falling on green grass. The temperatures are 99 degrees and kids old and young alike peeling their sweat stained jerseys from tired bodies. It is enough to revitalize me. To make me whole. To make me articulate in my inarticulate ways to tell you guys and gals that football is almost here. When all is right with our small corner of the world.
My prose has me teary-eyed and i cannot type further and besides Cops Reloaded is on the TV to keep me entertained until the season of gladiators arrive.

 

[Fritsch_the_cat]

I've learned to curb my enthusiasm.

 

[StarBoyz83]

Ill start feeling it when preseasons about over.

 

[Fletch]

I'm very excited. I'm going to get to catch every game that I would normally miss due to my 2nd shift schedule during the week. Thank goodness I'm quitting my job to concentrate on my school for the next two years. Thankful my wife made the suggestion to do so. Now I won't miss any of our primetime games that happen to fall during the work week. Just hope my schooling doesn't suffer. LOL JK

 

[scooper]

I'm so excited it's like I got ants in my pants!!!! And I'm not kidding either when I say Sean lee is one of my favorite Cowboys too. Woo hoo! Cowboys came here to kick butt and chew bubblegum! And were all outa bubblegum!

 

[Risen Star]

Yeah can't wait for all this too start really excited too watch the news and too watch the intro show on Saturday

Me to.

 

[Aven8]

Always pumped this time of year.

I can almost smell the Turkey!

 

[FLcowboy]

Tuesday the players report to Oxnard for Training Camp. Thursday they start practicing. Tweets are going to start pouring in. Articles are going to start being daily fare. Videos will make a comeback on the mother ship. Excited? Just a little bit. I don't expect to get much work done this week. Some of it will be due to lack of sleep. Some of it will be due to surfing like a crazy man.

The biggest disappointment for me heading into Camp is the loss of Sean Lee. Not going to lie to you, he is probably my 2nd favorite current Cowboys player behind Witten. I like consummate professionals. Does it amaze me that he moved ahead of Tony and Dez on my list? It does a little, but he actually did. Ware was up there in 2nd, but he's gone. That moves everyone up.

Every year injuries in Camp and Pre Season temper my enthusiasm a little. The only thing I don't want are critical injuries. It's football, and they happen. I know that, and I still get down when they do.

Why am I excited? Because I love this game. I love everything about it. The sights, the smells, the sounds. I used to love the pain of the early practices. I know how dumb that sounds, but I somehow felt more alive when those familiar aches were back. I used to get to this point in a calendar year and I wanted to put on pads and go get hit. I wanted to hit someone too, but man I wanted to get hit. I wanted to pick myself up off the ground in some kind of symbolic rebirth. I'm 50 now and I don't want that any more. I guess with age does come some wisdom.

I'm excited as hell to see the video footage of Brad Sham introducing the team. I want to see Press Conferences again, even though I acknowledge that Jason doesn't say anything. I continue to be amused at how well he plays the press. I occasionally get to be thrilled when they ask a good question and he opens up. Those moments are rare. I'm ready to even hear their bad questions. Every injured player is day to day and they will see. They hope he gets back to practice soon. Practice is important.

I wonder who will be the dinged up players this year. The same ones who always are? Someone new? It doesn't matter really. Everyone gets some time in the tub as they work their bodies back into football shape.

We as fans work ourselves back into football shape in a different way. We get our hopes back up. We start re-arranging our evening schedules. We start bringing back little used over the off season websites to our surveillance modes. This is what we are supposed to do. We're supposed to go through every gamut of emotions. We're supposed to experience highs and lows. We're back on the roller coaster. I don't know about you, but I like that a lot more than a merry go round. I'll take the highs and lows. It's what makes it all so exciting.

Football is back in just a few days. Oh how I've missed it.

Yep...get those feelings every year for a couple of months before reality comes crashing down upon me again as another
year of disappointments slaps us in the face about the middle of October.

This year willbe different. The 'Boys are going to build on last year's results. The defense has to be better, and the offense improves with Martin. Ten wi s gets them into the playoffs.

 

[RonSpringsdaman20]

 

[Doomsday]

I wanna be excited for Dallas, and look forward to watching their games, but I have very few expectations from a win / loss perspective.