Went to the game, cried. Please read

[ZB9]

I was at the game last night and when the team did the "Landry Hitch" I explained it to my 20 year old son, who was with me and I felt a little rush of emotion run through me.

When did they do that? I missed it.

 

[cmoney23]

Money comes and goes, people come and go, but experiences last for a lifetime!

 

[JoeBoBBY]

Being 26, I've never cried over a Cowboys game. I've come close, but yesterday was the first time I shed tears, and they were tears of joy.

I shared two days ago that I did the stadium tour and it was one of the better days in my existence, well last night was the best night of my life.

I am as die hard as they come. The things I go through living in Phila as a Cowboys fan I wouldn't wish on anyone. That is part of the reason why I cried. It feels that much better when you win after having to go through what I do. I've lost friends over this football stuff, people choose to make remarks about me, my family, and my personal well being over this stuff. I would tell you here where no Eagles fan can see if I provoke these jabs, but I dont. It just comes with the territory.

This trip cost me nearly half my bank account, that is another third of why I cried. I took this trip alone, and stayed at an awful hotel and picked flights with cheap layovers just to make this game. I have never spent money so well in my life.

The final third of why I cried was because as mentioned In another thread, if you're in my age range you never experienced glory with this team. For some of you who have witnessed it all, im sure yesterday was nice but nothing compared to what you have felt in the past. Yesterday was my mini Super Bowl. I cried when Tony took the final kneel. I wish I could share the video but there are expletives. The way in which they won, to be losing for 56 mins to then pull it out, ontop of the other reasons above, it was only right to let my emotions go.

The experience: amazing. I told you I sunk almost half my bank account, I paid a steep price for my ticket. I sat in sec. 205. The people around me were amazing. We hugged, shook hands, fist bumped, chest bumped, you name it we did it all game. My section never lost hope and we were loud as hell. I sat and was quiet maybe 5% of the game.

All in all folks, I go home broke, but can say it was truly the best weekend of my life. My flight got delayed big time back home, and I don't even care as I write this in DFW. It was a wonderful feeling being able to share happy sentiments with people at the game. I've never been in a room with more then 3 Cowboys fans, that's not a joke. Thank you for allowing me to share this. I don't know any of you personally, and I know I'm not a famous poster on this site, but thank you and Go Cowboys.

That was a game for the ages....

Maybe people "outside" of #cowboyszone (non-fans) don't get it. Its ho -hum for them, just another game.

But , we as Cowboys fans, the team, players ,coaches, JJ, organization.....we knew. We knew how big this was and how Special this was.

And it was very Special.

I am a 40ish. I am from East Coast too....Over the years, going to games. I haven't been able to celebrate like home team fans celebrate. Its different. very different. And you miss out on a lot......

This time I was able to feel that....... I had tickets to the game too. Great Tickets. I was surrounded by Cowboys Fans just as passionate as I am. I am 40ish and I was hugging grown Men, my age, after we knew we had the win.... high fiving the whole game on every little play...

It was a great game. It was a "Special game". Enjoy the memory. No shame in crying. Just dont do it in public. \

and baseball. There is no crying in baseball either!

This was a special game.......The last "Special game" i can remember, that compares to this one was, the 1992-93
NFCCG against Niners......in SAN FRAN!

1992–93Dallas Cowboys30San Francisco 49ers20San Francisco, CaliforniaCandlestick Park

I am not talking Super bowls, etc etc. I am talking about "those kinds of games" The ones that put your team into a different level . The ones that make 26 year olds cry!!! -- lol....


Its been since 1992 since I have experienced one of these games. And I was ATTENDING this one!! very special

here is a pic of seat view. I took a ton of , but wont bog down threads with all that. I got the tickets from a forum member ufcrules1 and they were exactly as advertised,,,,,,! Awesome.


On to Green Bay brother on to Green Bay....

 

[wconn1979]

I can barely remember watching the 90's superbowls. Here is to hoping that we get there again.

 

[ufcrules1]

Being 26, I've never cried over a Cowboys game. I've come close, but yesterday was the first time I shed tears, and they were tears of joy.

I shared two days ago that I did the stadium tour and it was one of the better days in my existence, well last night was the best night of my life.

I am as die hard as they come. The things I go through living in Phila as a Cowboys fan I wouldn't wish on anyone. That is part of the reason why I cried. It feels that much better when you win after having to go through what I do. I've lost friends over this football stuff, people choose to make remarks about me, my family, and my personal well being over this stuff. I would tell you here where no Eagles fan can see if I provoke these jabs, but I dont. It just comes with the territory.

This trip cost me nearly half my bank account, that is another third of why I cried. I took this trip alone, and stayed at an awful hotel and picked flights with cheap layovers just to make this game. I have never spent money so well in my life.

The final third of why I cried was because as mentioned In another thread, if you're in my age range you never experienced glory with this team. For some of you who have witnessed it all, im sure yesterday was nice but nothing compared to what you have felt in the past. Yesterday was my mini Super Bowl. I cried when Tony took the final kneel. I wish I could share the video but there are expletives. The way in which they won, to be losing for 56 mins to then pull it out, ontop of the other reasons above, it was only right to let my emotions go.

The experience: amazing. I told you I sunk almost half my bank account, I paid a steep price for my ticket. I sat in sec. 205. The people around me were amazing. We hugged, shook hands, fist bumped, chest bumped, you name it we did it all game. My section never lost hope and we were loud as hell. I sat and was quiet maybe 5% of the game.

All in all folks, I go home broke, but can say it was truly the best weekend of my life. My flight got delayed big time back home, and I don't even care as I write this in DFW. It was a wonderful feeling being able to share happy sentiments with people at the game. I've never been in a room with more then 3 Cowboys fans, that's not a joke. Thank you for allowing me to share this. I don't know any of you personally, and I know I'm not a famous poster on this site, but thank you and Go Cowboys.

I'm so happy for you. I'm 10 years older than you and I can tell you good memories are worth way more than money. I was at the game last night and I got emotional too. Was so proud that my team never ever even thought about giving up. Those guys are learning lifelong lessons on that team that are worth more than the game itself.

 

[Mactin]

I am as die hard as they come. The things I go through living in Phila as a Cowboys fan I wouldn't wish on anyone. That is part of the reason why I cried. It feels that much better when you win after having to go through what I do. I've lost friends over this football stuff, people choose to make remarks about me, my family, and my personal well being over this stuff. I would tell you here where no Eagles fan can see if I provoke these jabs, but I dont. It just comes with the territory.

So sorry to hear what you had to go through over there. I hope you good things to come to you in the future.

 

[SPCowboysfan9]

Awesome story. Congrats. What a rollercoaster of emotion that game was.

Somebody get him to Lambeau.....

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

I had tears too but it was an emotional day for other reasons for me, my mom had had an emergency appendectomy early Sat am and there was a complication so I was at hospital from 930 until 3:20 so I missed the first half and half of the 3rd quarter live. I got home when we were at the 50 just before Dez's long catch and run. I suspect it was more a release of all the emotion of the last few days.

Still, I felt very satisfied with the win

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Being 26, I've never cried over a Cowboys game. I've come close, but yesterday was the first time I shed tears, and they were tears of joy.

I shared two days ago that I did the stadium tour and it was one of the better days in my existence, well last night was the best night of my life.

I am as die hard as they come. The things I go through living in Phila as a Cowboys fan I wouldn't wish on anyone. That is part of the reason why I cried. It feels that much better when you win after having to go through what I do. I've lost friends over this football stuff, people choose to make remarks about me, my family, and my personal well being over this stuff. I would tell you here where no Eagles fan can see if I provoke these jabs, but I dont. It just comes with the territory.

This trip cost me nearly half my bank account, that is another third of why I cried. I took this trip alone, and stayed at an awful hotel and picked flights with cheap layovers just to make this game. I have never spent money so well in my life.

The final third of why I cried was because as mentioned In another thread, if you're in my age range you never experienced glory with this team. For some of you who have witnessed it all, im sure yesterday was nice but nothing compared to what you have felt in the past. Yesterday was my mini Super Bowl. I cried when Tony took the final kneel. I wish I could share the video but there are expletives. The way in which they won, to be losing for 56 mins to then pull it out, ontop of the other reasons above, it was only right to let my emotions go.

The experience: amazing. I told you I sunk almost half my bank account, I paid a steep price for my ticket. I sat in sec. 205. The people around me were amazing. We hugged, shook hands, fist bumped, chest bumped, you name it we did it all game. My section never lost hope and we were loud as hell. I sat and was quiet maybe 5% of the game.

All in all folks, I go home broke, but can say it was truly the best weekend of my life. My flight got delayed big time back home, and I don't even care as I write this in DFW. It was a wonderful feeling being able to share happy sentiments with people at the game. I've never been in a room with more then 3 Cowboys fans, that's not a joke. Thank you for allowing me to share this. I don't know any of you personally, and I know I'm not a famous poster on this site, but thank you and Go Cowboys.

Dude. It just means you are a true blue cowboy fan.

 

[ufcrules1]

That was a game for the ages....

Maybe people "outside" of #cowboyszone (non-fans) don't get it. Its ho -hum for them, just another game.

But , we as Cowboys fans, the team, players ,coaches, JJ, organization.....we knew. We knew how big this was and how Special this was.

And it was very Special.

I am a 40ish. I am from East Coast too....Over the years, going to games. I haven't been able to celebrate like home team fans celebrate. Its different. very different. And you miss out on a lot......

This time I was able to feel that....... I had tickets to the game too. Great Tickets. I was surrounded by Cowboys Fans just as passionate as I am. I am 40ish and I was hugging grown Men, my age, after we knew we had the win.... high fiving the whole game on every little play...

It was a great game. It was a "Special game". Enjoy the memory. No shame in crying. Just dont do it in public. \

and baseball. There is no crying in baseball either!

This was a special game.......The last "Special game" i can remember, that compares to this one was, the 1992-93
NFCCG against Niners......in SAN FRAN!

1992–93Dallas Cowboys30San Francisco 49ers20San Francisco, CaliforniaCandlestick Park

I am not talking Super bowls, etc etc. I am talking about "those kinds of games" The ones that put your team into a different level . The ones that make 26 year olds cry!!! -- lol....


Its been since 1992 since I have experienced one of these games. And I was ATTENDING this one!! very special

here is a pic of seat view. I took a ton of , but wont bog down threads with all that. I got the tickets from a forum member ufcrules1 and they were exactly as advertised,,,,,,! Awesome.


On to Green Bay brother on to Green Bay....

Sooo awesome. So happy for you for you man. I was there too and it was an amazing game. So many ups and downs and then to get the win at the end....ah just pure BLISS. That crowd was freaking amazing last night. I was at the 2009 playoff game and it wasn't even remotely close to that.

 

[bevo11]

thanks for sharing!

 

[JoeBoBBY]

Sooo awesome. So happy for you for you man. I was there too and it was an amazing game. So many ups and downs and then to get the win at the end....ah just pure BLISS. That crowd was freaking amazing last night. I was at the 2009 playoff game and it wasn't even remotely close to that.

its a good thing I am typing right now, because my voice is GONE! I may have really done some damage to the old vocal cords! thats how much i was screaming......lol

it was awesome!

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

its a good thing I am typing right now, because my voice is GONE! I may have really done some damage to the old vocal cords! thats how much i was screaming......lol

it was awesome!

I experienced alot of pure emotions yesterday.

Disbelief
Anger
More disbelief
Utter disbelief
Joy
Joy
Anger
Joy
Joy
Relief
More joy

 

[65fastback2plus2]

Glad you enjoyed your time and felt your money was well spent. You could have been crying for the wrong reasons by losing all that money and the Cowboys losing the game.

like what I almost did after bears @ dallas last year lol

 

[Carolina Cowboy]

Awesome post dude. There is nothing I get as worked up about as Cowboys football. Not many understand it. My friends get me and most of the time it's OK; my family and fiance sort of, but it still causes friction and odd looks even when I'm "behaving"; after all, it's just a game on television, so what right? Wrong. I get you and am happy for you.

 

[jbz64]

the first time i cried over football was watching "the catch".
that was just awful, to a very small me.

I was 17 years old at that time and that lost hurt me for a long time. We had a good team that year and would have beaten the Bengals in the Super Bowl. Winning the 92,93 & 95 Super Bowls helped me get over a lot of those NFC Championship playoff losses. Go Cowboys!!!

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I'm glad you had a wonderful time man. That's awesome. The story is great.

I shed a few tears for Romo on that TD pass. His celebration was awesome. It made me feel great for the guy.

I'm not even going to pretend otherwise I know that if this team can win a Superbowl I'm going to shed tears.

I've probably never wanted to see two players win a Championship as badly as I want to see Romo and Witten win one.

 

[JoeBoBBY]

I experienced alot of pure emotions yesterday.

Disbelief
Anger
More disbelief
Utter disbelief
Joy
Joy
Anger
Joy
Joy
Relief
More joy

It was a roller coaster.

I "DID NOT" expect to be down by 14 points!
I "DID NOT" expect Bailey to miss a filed goal...

There were moments, early in that game when I was very..........."down" just "down"

But, even then, I sort of knew. sensed it. There was no way this "Crowd" and the team was going to fold......no way in ****


But..................it was close. 14-0 and they get a fluke play or something and they go up 21 -0 and..... thats hard to come back from. For any team!

Then it happened. Like the Boys have been doing all year long.....slowly, methodically....going to work. shifting emotion, momentum.... then breaking out for Great plays and Touchdowns!

We won....and I was emotionally drained after that game!!!


On to Green Bay brother , on to Green Bay. Back to work.

 

[Aikmaniac]

I felt myself welling up at the end of that one. Like someone mentioned earlier, the last 10 or so years have been extremely difficult as a Cowboys fan. To have seasons end the way they have year after year, it really does eat at us. People look to sports as a "distraction" if you will of everyday life. When that distraction is not a source of happiness or relaxation, that too becomes difficult to experience as a fan.

Seeing what happened yesterday, seeing the players and coaches so happy (especially Romo, a guy that truly deserves success in this league), and knowing deep down that this team is different made it really emotional.

Yeah, it wasn't the Super Bowl, but it was a look into the heart of the 2014 Dallas Cowboys...and their fans.

 

[CCBoy]

A personal share is always appreciated and the top of a menu here on site. Thanks for sharing your experiences as a fan.

Sorry your bank account took a ding, but I can relate to those dings, myself. I live down in South Texas.

I'm offering a pat on your back as well. Although difficult, this team is still establishing a 'homefield advantage' in the new stadium. You did a part in it's development. That growth for this franchise now, has to gain momentum. I'm sure you cheered your heart out.

Everyone agrees, they are glad you committed and then shared...and fans in this new stadium, are the greatest to another Cowboys fan. I can speak from my own experiences with them and my wife, Ann.