What's it like to be a Cowboys fan now compared to before?

JBell

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a lot less trolling and stalking from me as I've gotten older.

I remember trolling Brandon Noble back on AIM and posting our convos here on CZ.

I also remember I tried to add every Cowboys player I could on MySpace. They all added me except for Scandrick.
 

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JBell523 said:
a lot less trolling and stalking from me as I've gotten older.

I remember trolling Brandon Noble back on AIM and posting our convos here on CZ.

I also remember I tried to add every Cowboys player I could on MySpace. They all added me except for Scandrick.
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You trolled the great blocker magnet?
 
Trouty

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Don't understand the negative views of posters towards other Cowboys fans they may run into, yet they're posting on a site full of Cowboys fans. Perhaps the most diehard on the planet.

I love Cowboys fans. The diehards. We're in this fight together. There is no bandwagon anymore, so miss me with that. We have a right to be braggadocio, we have five rings, and a history of greatness. What's wrong with that, being proud?

I've been a fan since the mid-90s. Diehard. I am depressed after a loss. A win helps make my week.

Am I weak? Nah. Just bleed for this franchise with every ounce of my being.

And I feel like some of the fans in this thread that say they don't, do in fact. :)
 
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MileyDancer said:
I'm not doing what right? Commenting (giving opinions) on a message board? Is there like an online class I can take? Do you, perhaps, teach by the hour? I can pay you in cigarettes. I don't smoke. It's the currency in the trailer park we use to rent the dial-up Internet here.
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Seems like you despise everyone. Friend and foe. I could be wrong.
 
Shake_Tiller

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T-RO said:
I agree with some of the not-as-good-back-in-the-day comments. I'm not a fan of the seflie cel phone culture and some of the other cultural changes.

But let me push back on that a little:
-All the changes in personnel and free agency give us a lot more to talk about
-The amount of news and youTube videos and blogs and insightful stats is way higher
-I love the HD and 4k broadcasts of games
-The higher scoring games with more passing are more entertaining
-It's easy to watch most any game you want and find old games on YouTube

You can go back and watch games from the eighties...and there were some pretty ugly games. Nostalgia has a way of changing our perspective.
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Perspective obviously changes as we move from childhood. I will never feel the same awe for players as I felt for Bob Lilly, Jethro Pugh, Mel Renfro, George Andrie, Lee Roy Jordan, Chuck Howley, Rayfield Wright, et al. In that sense, my fandom has changed. I suppose I root more for the uniform these days.

But these are great points about the experience of being a fan then versus now. When I was young, Cowboys home games were blacked out. There were 14 regular season games and only 7 were televised. The draft was hardly covered in the newspapers and certainly wasn't televised. There was little to discuss in the off-season. Hey, will Jordan, Howley and Edwards be the linebackers, or will it be Edwards, Howley and Jordan?

I live faraway from my Texas roots, but I can watch more Cowboys games on TV than I could as a kid in Dallas. I can find plenty to read about the Cowboys any time of the year and anywhere in the world. Through these forums, I can interact with many more Cowboys fans than I could have at any other time. Shoot, now I can afford a plane ticket, a hotel and a game ticket to attend. Then I couldn't afford even the game ticket.

Free agency is something the players deserved. I'm glad they have it. But it does diminish my ability to see a large roster of players I think of purely and wholly as "Cowboys." I cannot and will not place a Deion or a TO on an all-time Cowboys team, not because I don't appreciate them and their contributions, but because they contributed as much or more to other teams. I am selfish that way.

But we are fortunate as fans to live in a time in which being a fan can provide year-long entertainment. The off-seasons seem shorter -- and maybe not just because I am no longer a kid with a long list of blue and silver-clad heroes.
 
DandyDon1722

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Melonfeud said:
Mine has never wavered/ fluxed nor failed( although, that 1989 season was pretty tough to handle as every Sunday that present wife was a bears fan and the step son was a john elway fanatic) my last laugh at them both after a season long ridicule was beating the undefeated Commanders/ handing them their only loss.
I was in the single digit age group when I found my 'calling' as my father was a Commanders patron hailing from Indian country (Oklahoma) and had total dislike for anything TEXAS.
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For as miserable as it was that '89 season will always be special for me because it was the first season ever in my life where I watched every regular season game. It was the first year a sports bar carried satellite television. I lived in Orlando at the time and it also opened my eyes to how many Cowboy fans there were. The bar was always packed with Dallas fans and we absolutely sucked. It was a revelation.
 
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I don't watch Pregame shows or subscribe to Dallas Cowboys weekly due to the internet, but not much else has changed.
 
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cowboyblue22 said:
have been a fan since the late 60's the 70's and early 90's were golden times of the dallas cowboys and the nfl in general now its all about the money and the show I get over the loses the pretty easy now because I don't have a lot of expectations I just realize its all a show and the money is tops and every thing is come together around that
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Sad but very true.
 
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It's been up and down, like the team. I always have been and always will be a fan but I'm not a homer by any means. Jerry has infuriated me more than any other person or aspect of the team. As it seems he's lossened the reigns a bit I've become more proud to be a fan than I have in years. He's an embarrassment to the franchise, I don't care what kind of marketing he's done, I care about wins and championships.

I was also worn out with Romo so with Dak at the helm and MOST of our draft selections the future looks brighter than it has in years. I honestly expect a Super Bowl this season and I'm not one of the ones who's been saying that every year, anything less will be a disappointment. I see the beginning of a dynasty a la early nineties style.
 
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