When did you become a Cowboy fan?

[Mavs Man]

Two things in the summer of 1992 sealed the deal: two Emmitt Smith cards in my first pack of football cards, and Tecmo Super Bowl.

Oh, and three Super Bowl Championships in my first four years as a fan.

 

[badleelee]

1977 I was 6 years old.

 

[HardHittin'Witten]

December 23, 1976.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

birth

Conception for me......

 

[jswalker1981]

When I came out of the womb. My dad was born in Ft. Worth in 1955, and is a cowboys fan. So he did what every good father does, raised me to be a cowboys fan. I was actually born in FL, but if I only had one sports team to watch for the rest of my life, it would be the Cowboys, hands down. I keep up with all the moves and the draft, and I end up defending our players because my Dad only knows what happens on sundays. You should hear how many times I have to defend Newman. All my dad remembers is his bad 2nd year.

 

[Va_BoysFan4 Life]

Born in 1963...........but I truly became a Fan in 1970 and have been a DH Fan since through all the up and the downs. I live in Virginia and in my entire family there are only 3 Boys fans ( My brother, my oldest son (23 yo and live Texas now) and myself. The rest are Commanders and Steeler fans.

Did you know that at the conception of our beloved team when it was time to vote them in the league Washington's owner was completely against it. But Mr Murchison had a trick up his sleeve to get us in. He bought the rights to the Commander Fight song and sold it back to them for their vote to enter into the league.
See.....We were destine for greatness from day one and Jerry Jones will continue it with his brilliant business mind and sometimes under hand tactics.

 

[CosmicCowboy]

Oh,boy..when I saw Dandy Don, drop bombs to the Bullet and Bob Lilly smash OBs.

 

[lurkercowboy]

The week before Super Bowl 12. I had never seen a football game. My cousin (Dallas fan) was arguing on the school bus with another kid (Denver fan) about who would win the game. I backed my cousin and have been a Dallas fan ever since.

 

[Doomsday101]

Cowboy fan since 1965

 

[dalboy]

since I was born, I stated watching and really caring when I was about when I was 5 when I went to my first cowboy game ever.

 

[jimmy40]

Well I'm pretty sure I've always been a Cowboy fan since the day I was born in September 25, 1988, we won that day by the way. And have never lost on my birthday since. But anway the day I really fell in love and started paying close attention was the opening day game against the Commanders where Troy rallied they back and threw a TD to Rocket in overtime. Sure I remember watching games before that but since I was so young I don't vividly remember. Before then I was just real yound and didn't really understand football other than I knew Troy Aikman was the best QB of all time. ha.

And the other day I walked into my room and realized, I have a serious problem, but its a good one. ha. Thats my room below. Its kind of hard to see, but that all started with one poster and has gone crazy ever since. And thats just 2 walls the others are just bad.

http://i69.***BLOCKED***/albums/i67/cowboyeric8/myroom.jpg

Well anyway, sorry its so long, just wondering when you knew you became a Cowboy fan.

We didn't have all those poster options back in the day, we had the Roger Stauback, Tony Dorsett, defensive front four posters on the wall of course but I'd have to say the only poster any of us had on the ceiling was Farrah Fawcett.

 

[1fisher]

1974.......6 years old!:starspin

 

[notherbob]

Good thread. People's stories are all interesting.

Ah, the enthusiasm of youth. I understand - been there, done that.

I became a Boys fan in 1961 when I moved to Dallas with my new bride and she left a few months later and I was glad. I went to a few Cowboys and Texans games and became a real intense, even rabid, Cowboys fan for years until the Colts Superbowl fiasco when the referee, Norm Schacter, took the ball away from the Cowboys and gave it to the Colts, resulting in the last second Field Goal that won the game and plunged me into months of morbid depression. It was so close, but in many games they got robbed on controversial calls in the last minute after outplaying the opponent all game long and almost every time Schacter officiated, it happened to the Cowboys.

In that Colts game, I learned that not all officials are honest. After that I no longer got emotional about any team or game. That experience cured me from allowing myself to let my feelings go to the extreme and to put some reins on that runaway horse within me.

Still, the Cowboys are my favorite team, even if I no longer care whether they win or lose. I just love to see good football and hope my favorite team plays it, but if they don't, I don't get upset by it.

Ya gotta protect number 1.

 

[WV Cowboy]

Why don't we all put the answers to these type of questions in our profile, (when did you become a Cowboys fan, what does your user-name mean, who is your favorite Cowboy, what is your favorite game, what is your favorite play, ...etc ...etc ...) then we could limit these dumb threads.

 

[CIWhitefish]

For me it was by happenstance really. The first game I remember watching on TV was Dallas vs Rams in the NFC title game before Superbowl XIII. I liked the star on the helmet and my brother liked the ram horns. I've been a Cowboy fan ever since and my brother is still a Rams fan. I'm just glad I didn't watch the AFC game first and become a Steelers fan!

 

[superpunk]

Why don't we all put the answers to these type of questions in our profile, (when did you become a Cowboys fan, what does your user-name mean, who is your favorite Cowboy, what is your favorite game, what is your favorite play, ...etc ...etc ...) then we could limit these dumb threads.

Thanks, Eeyore.

FWIW - I agree. A sense of community and getting to know fellow posters during a pathetically slow time of the year should be discouraged as much as possible. That's just the "in" the terrorists need.

 

[Boom]

For me it was by happenstance really. The first game I remember watching on TV was Dallas vs Rams in the NFC title game before Superbowl XIII. I liked the star on the helmet and my brother liked the ram horns. I've been a Cowboy fan ever since and my brother is still a Rams fan. I'm just glad I didn't watch the AFC game first and become a Steelers fan!

I also became a Cowboys fan that year, although it was during the superbowl loss to Pittsburgh. I was 7 at the time and everyone else in my household loved the Steelers. Me, I thought the star on the helmets were cool and became a Dallas fan that day.

 

[trickblue]

Good thread. People's stories are all interesting.

Ah, the enthusiasm of youth. I understand - been there, done that.

I became a Boys fan in 1961 when I moved to Dallas with my new bride and she left a few months later and I was glad. I went to a few Cowboys and Texans games and became a real intense, even rabid, Cowboys fan for years until the Colts Superbowl fiasco when the referee, Norm Schacter, took the ball away from the Cowboys and gave it to the Colts, resulting in the last second Field Goal that won the game and plunged me into months of morbid depression. It was so close, but in many games they got robbed on controversial calls in the last minute after outplaying the opponent all game long and almost every time Schacter officiated, it happened to the Cowboys.

In that Colts game, I learned that not all officials are honest. After that I no longer got emotional about any team or game. That experience cured me from allowing myself to let my feelings go to the extreme and to put some reins on that runaway horse within me.

Still, the Cowboys are my favorite team, even if I no longer care whether they win or lose. I just love to see good football and hope my favorite team plays it, but if they don't, I don't get upset by it.

Ya gotta protect number 1.

Schachter was also the ref in the Icebowl game in which no offsides was called... and also the ref in Superbowl X which we lost to the Steelers...

Coincidence? I think not...

 

[WoodysGirl]

Thanks, Eeyore.

FWIW - I agree. A sense of community and getting to know fellow posters during a pathetically slow time of the year should be discouraged as much as possible. That's just the "in" the terrorists need.

And SP scores another one!! :laugh2:

As for the thread, I don't have a great story about when I became a fan. Just the way I grew up. Sundays were always about church and the Cowboys. Even the Minister would try to finish up the sermon a bit early, so we wouldn't miss the kickoff.

 

[jwhardin]

I enlisted in the army the year Cowboys came into existence and went to Germany after advanced training, but tried to follow the Cowboys through the Stars and Stripes newspaper, when I wasn't drunk or laid up with a fraulein. It was hard following them because I was overseas 1960-63, 64-66, 67-68. I got up at 2AM in Saudia Arabia to listen the boys vs rams on AFN radio in 79 or 80. I love me some Cowboys.