My Cowboys

[Billy Bullocks]

I really feel like this is my team now. I grew up in the Bay Area, but have family in Fort Worth, so you can imagine when I go out there at thanksgiving, I can't be wearing any 49ers gear. That as well as the 1st team I ever used in a video game was Dallas, never changed.

I was like 6 years old when the Cowboys romped Buffalo. I clearly remember Super Bowl XXX, but it didn't have the level of significance to me as it would now. I've been following this team ever since. Once I got to the age where I knew what was going on, it has become religious. Starting with Campo's last season, I've seen most every game. It's been pretty tough, but this team finally looks to be going back to where I remember it being at.

Sure I loved the Triplets, had the posters, watched the games, seen the games on tape that my uncle has, but I've never been as attached to the team as now.

This is probably the most fun I've had watching this team in a while. It's been hard, but it appears that we may be back. Im not even 20, and I'm probably going to have a heart attack in the next few weeks.

What's your guys ties with the Boys, howd yall get started on em.

 

[ZRO]

Well I can admit I got started during the first Superbowl in 92, I was a kid/young teen then and really didn't have a team, so I guess you could say I was a bandwagoner. I stuck with them though, through the Switzer, Gailey, and Campo years up to now.

And I agree, it is alot of fun to see a team like this where it feels like it's more "yours"...you watched all the young players get drafted, and come in and develop, etc.

 

[Billy Bullocks]

Yeh, that's my boat. Family, Joe Montana Football 1994, and me being loyal are the reason I'm still watching week in week out. Overall, I've probably see Dallas lose more than they have won. It's kind of depressing.

But yeah, you see the players drafted. You've just been a part of it for so long

 

[Doomsday101]

Have been following the Cowboys dating back to Meredith and I think the most fun I have had is watching the different teams develope from young inexperianced players into all time greats. Looking at this current group of young guys I think we will see this take place again.

 

[WV Cowboy]

I really feel like this is my team now. I grew up in the Bay Area, but have family in Fort Worth, so you can imagine when I go out there at thanksgiving, I can't be wearing any 49ers gear. That as well as the 1st team I ever used in a video game was Dallas, never changed.

I was like 6 years old when the Cowboys romped Buffalo. I clearly remember Super Bowl XXX, but it didn't have the level of significance to me as it would now. I've been following this team ever since. Once I got to the age where I knew what was going on, it has become religious. Starting with Campo's last season, I've seen most every game. It's been pretty tough, but this team finally looks to be going back to where I remember it being at.

Sure I loved the Triplets, had the posters, watched the games, seen the games on tape that my uncle has, but I've never been as attached to the team as now.

This is probably the most fun I've had watching this team in a while. It's been hard, but it appears that we may be back. Im not even 20, and I'm probably going to have a heart attack in the next few weeks.

What's your guys ties with the Boys, howd yall get started on em.

Welcome to the Cowboys family, you have made a wise decision my son.

 

[burmafrd]

My first real season watching them was 71. I watched a little in 70. Roger was my guy- and I was hooked. The 80's was a tough time since we got so close but could not quite make it. then by 85 you could see age and bad drafts start coming. I was still a big fan of Landry but the rest of the staff was not all that good and the scouting department had fallen completely apart. Without a good GM the cowboys went downhill. I was ready to head out to Texas and shoot me a Jerry Jones after he pulled that classless firing of The Coach. Did not like Jimmy Johnson; so for 1989 I actually kind of enjoyed their humiliation. But I was a Boys Fan and could not enjoy it for long. 1990 I could see signs of progress; so I was ok with it. Then came 1992 and I was hooked completley again. 1994 made me want to puke; there is no doubt in my mind that we missed a shot at 4 straight- BUT I also knew that it was not ALL on Jerry- Jimmy was already starting to look at the Dolphins. I forgave Barry somewhat when we won in 1995; but from 96 on I wanted him GONE. Gailley was OK; but did not deserve to be the Boys coach. Less said about Campo the better.

 

[Texas33]

living in Texas the Cowboys were always on...loved the uniforms and the rest is history.

 

[Skeptic]

I was introduced to the Cowboys during the 89 season.

We were headed to a 1-15 season eventually, and we were winless at the time.

Aikman was being hammered. Emmitt wasn't even here yet.

But then the Commanders came to town.

I can remember a whole room full of family members screaming at the TV in the fourth quarter, and for the first time I realized that the Cowboys weren't just the Cowboys, they were my Cowboys.

Hooked. Granted, I was only ten, but hooked.

And if you think that was bad, imagine this scenario:

You're ten years old and for the first time in you're life you're following a pro football team week in and week out.

Over the course of the next five years, that team wins THREE superbowls.

THREE.

You want to get crack-addicted to winning? Go through that and then sit through the Gailey and Campo years.

I've often said it my 49er and Commander friends....all the pain of the late nineties and the wait for a return to greatness will be ALL worth it the next time I watch our coach hoist the Lombardi.

And they will pretty much hate me for an entire year.

In fact, I've already decided that the next time we win a Superbowl, for an entire year, I'm not going to refer to them as "The Cowboys" in conversation.

No, they'll be strictly referred to as, "The SuperBowl Champion Dallas Cowboys".

Can't wait. Make it happen Bill.

 

[Gordon]

I really feel like this is my team now. I grew up in the Bay Area, but have family in Fort Worth, so you can imagine when I go out there at thanksgiving, I can't be wearing any 49ers gear. That as well as the 1st team I ever used in a video game was Dallas, never changed.

I was like 6 years old when the Cowboys romped Buffalo. I clearly remember Super Bowl XXX, but it didn't have the level of significance to me as it would now. I've been following this team ever since. Once I got to the age where I knew what was going on, it has become religious. Starting with Campo's last season, I've seen most every game. It's been pretty tough, but this team finally looks to be going back to where I remember it being at.

Sure I loved the Triplets, had the posters, watched the games, seen the games on tape that my uncle has, but I've never been as attached to the team as now.

This is probably the most fun I've had watching this team in a while. It's been hard, but it appears that we may be back. Im not even 20, and I'm probably going to have a heart attack in the next few weeks.

What's your guys ties with the Boys, howd yall get started on em.

My experience is somewhat similar to yours. In short, it was Tecmo Bowl or Tecmo Super Bowl, the game made the year after the Cowboys 1-15 season. My older brother and his friends were Giants fans, and they would force me to be the Cowboys so they could whoop me.

 

[RCowboyFan]

Well I can admit I got started during the first Superbowl in 92, I was a kid/young teen then and really didn't have a team, so I guess you could say I was a bandwagoner. I stuck with them though, through the Switzer, Gailey, and Campo years up to now.

And I agree, it is alot of fun to see a team like this where it feels like it's more "yours"...you watched all the young players get drafted, and come in and develop, etc.

My first game was the same, I am immigrant, so first game was SB, as I was invited to SB party, so I am not young. It was wild for me, since I didn't understand why people were so drunk and getting excited :laugh2:

Since I lived in Texas, by default I watched Cowboys, but till I moved to Detriot in 96 and Cowboys Switzer era, did I know that I truly loved the cowboys. Strangely cowboys sucking really made me realize, how much I liked cowboys. How much I lived vicariously through cowboys during football season, much to my dismay actually, was realized through Switzer to BP era.

Now back in Texas and all is well again for now Well hopefully anyway.

 

[Richmond Cowboy]

When I was a youngster, my father was transferred to a job in Mexico City. This was in the mid-late 70's and most of the games shown down there were Cowboys games. We would visit family in NJ during the holidays and I still remember developing an early hatred for the Eagles.

 

[lurkercowboy]

I was in sixth grade and had never seen an NFL game. The week before Super Bowl 12, two guys on the schoolbus were arguing over the game. I took sides with the Cowboys fan. I watched the game rooting for the Cowboys, saw Staubach, Dorsett and Too Tall Jones, and became a Dallas fan.

I grew up in a very small town. We had the usual assortment of Dallas fans, Commander fans and a few Steeler fans. But some of the kids picked odd teams. We had a Rams fan and amazingly a Bengals fan. A guy from the next town over was a Vikings fan.

 

[DBoys]

This is a good thread Billy!

My parents were big Staubach fans and use to dress me up in Cowboy pajamas when I was basically born in 76. I remember my parents getting all excited n stuff but I don't remember any of it. 80's was much of the same. Then the 90's came and I watched the games and all but didn't really follow it that closely. In all honesty when Parcells came thats when I started digging in and following the Cowboys with drafts, FA's, injuries etc. This will be more special to me than previous years because I have followed the process and watched it grow over the last few years with Parcells aboard.

A Super bowl win with this team would be the most cherished for me. It's kind of like watching a movie and caring about the characters asnd what happens to them.