Really, You are a real fan of the Cowboys since ???

[DAL1180]

1978...remembering something my grandfather had always told me as I watched this team try to come back and beat another team in the Super Bowl. That wisdom was that "the good guys always wear white and the bad guys are always in black!" It began a 31 year love affair that has since been passed on to my children.

 

[lwehlers]

since 1980.

 

[Plumfool]

For as long as I can remember. The tv was on....family was watching so I just joined been hooked ever since. The year 1975.

 

[Road Warrior]

1974, since I was 10 years old. Wow this year makes it 35 years a Cowboys Fan.

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[Section446]

Always followed the Cowboys, didn't become a freak until I moved to Dallas in 2004.

 

[Chuck 54]

I'm 52; a fan since the Ice Bowl; a sucker for the underdog and the STAR; loved them through the losses to GB, and also through struggles with Cleveland until we finally got over the hump.

Win or lose; whoever coaches, whoever owns, whoever plays; 1-15 or Super Bowl Champs, I've never even considered becoming a fan of another team, but then I don't really enjoy watching other games much either. If the Cowboys aren't playing, I have no interest unless the game involves an outcome that could help the Cowboys.

 

[Aikmaniac]

Since as far as I can remember. I do remember comprehending the game and rooting for the Cowboys back in 83 or so. The first game I can really remember is the thrashing of the Bucs in 81. I think the score was 38-0.

 

[THUMPER]

Since the beginning. I was 15 years old at the time and when I heard Dallas was getting a team I knew that I would be their fan for life. I was born in Texas and although I was living in California at the time I really had not adopted another team to root for.

Wow Leon, you must be as old as CBZ! Not many here older than me so I like it when I find one.

 

[Dallas]

Born in 71 and I have never not been a Cowboys fan. The Dallas Cowboys were/are a religion in our house along w/ the Oklahoma Sooners. My phone rings off the hook from family members across the US when the Cowboys or Sooners are playing. It has been that way my whole life.

We are a football family and thats just the way it's always been.

 

[The30YardSlant]

The first game I remember watching was during the 1990 season when I was 5, but I didnt really become a "fan" until the next year, '91. Needless to say, I was spoiled in my early years of fandom.

I used to get SO upset when Dallas would lose. I remember crying after the 1991 and 1994 playoff loses.

 

[StylisticS]

since the time when we lost to Detroit by 32 in a playoff game back in 91. I was 8 at the time and that's when I started to follow sports.

 

[DALLASD94DW]

I cannot recall exactly but when i was around 8 (around 1994). My older cousins taught me all about sports when i was a kid and they were raised in Chicago and are Bears fans. However when i watched football as a kid with them, it was usually days such as thanksgiving when the cowboys were on. I loved Emmitt Smith's passion for the game.

 

[PlayMaker88]

1970......

 

[StarMan2112]

1975, since I was 7 years old.

 

[burmafrd]

Same as Hos- that replay of the "tipped" ball was my first really controvertial memory. My dad was a cowboy fan and He was truly irate and I got hooked. I was 12 years old.

 

[fan62]

My name here just about says it. I lived about 150 miles northwest in Wichita Falls. I remember seeing and hearing that Dallas was getting a team in 1960. My thoughts were, well since I am a Texan, that will be my team. I probably watched a game or 2 in the first 2 years, but just can't remember. that was almost years ago. But, I remember my family and I watched every Cowboy game starting in 1962. I was 9 when the Cowboys started (almost 10). So as I fan I just don't remember 60 and 61 to any great extent, but I say 62 was my first year of being a diehard Cowboy fan. I became a fanatic about them after the Ice Bowl, because I still think the Boys should have won that one. Lots of highs and lows since then, but I think right now is the lowest I have ever felt about this team.

 

[silverbear]

I'm a fan since 1985, I was 6 yers old.

1960, when the madness began... we were living in El Paso...

We'd come home from church (Glen Arbor United Methodist, where my Dad was youth choir director and I was an acolyte and one of two featured vocalists in the choir), sit and watch the Boys get killed by whoever, then go for supper at the La Paloma, out by the Northgate Shopping Center...

I remember Eddie LeBaron scrambling for his life... I remember Jerry Tubbs at middle linebacker, obviously before he became a Landry assistant... I remember tying the Giants in a late season game in Noo Yawk, the entire family losing their minds... I remember the drafting of Bob Lilly, the Boys' first ever draft pick... I remember Mom particularly loved Don Perkins in those early years, she'd jump off of the sofa yelling "Go, man" every time he touched the ball-- even when he was dropped for a three yard loss, LOL...

A coupla years later, my Dad was transferred from Fort Bliss to Fort Meade, we moved into the family house in Hagerstown, and the entire family except for me promptly became SKINS fans... I couldn't freakin' believe it... that's part of why I called myself the White Sheep of the family...

It made for some right tense Thanksgiving dinners over the years...

Ahhhh, memories... later, I remember listening to the Ice Bowl on Armed Forces Radio while we were in Heidelberg, Germany, and not sleeping at all that night, I was so upset... yes, I've paid my dues, and then some...

And yes, I'm old... don't even go there...

Let it be noted that I'm the last surviving member of my family, Mom, Dad and little brother are all gone... the moral to that story is that Cowboys fans live longer, happier lives than Skins fans do...

 

[silverbear]

get ready to say hello to my cane

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You need one of those aluminum canes, or make real sure you don't hit Bobby in the head... rock meets wood, no contest...

 

[silverbear]

1972, 5 years old. I grew up in San Antonio and I'm currently serving in Germany.

I'd never been to a game until last year vs. Baltimore. :-(

I see you're in Heidelberg... that was home for me from 1967-1969... Patrick Henry Village, went to Heidelberg American High School... Dad was the golf pro at the Army-owned club out by Schwetzingen...

Back then, there was no Armed Forces Television, and only one radio station, which played rock and roll for three hours on Saturday afternoons... do they now have American TV, and if so, how many channels??

It wasn't the hardship that it sounds like, though, we learned many ways to pass our time without gettin' in too much trouble...

 

[silverbear]

Since the beginning. I was 15 years old at the time and when I heard Dallas was getting a team I knew that I would be their fan for life. I was born in Texas and although I was living in California at the time I really had not adopted another team to root for.

Damn, that puts you in your mid-60s, Leon... I would have never guessed you were older than I am (I was 8 back in 1960)...

You post like a young guy, hoss...