CZ POLL When did you become a Cowboys fan?

[Reality]

I thought it would be interesting for everyone to share when they became a Cowboys fan.

 

[VaqueroTD]

I think it’s cool how we still have fans on this board that saw Don Meredith, Don Perkins, and the 60’s legends play. I laugh at these threads wanting to publicly drop their loyalty because of a few bad seasons. We have fans who have been showing up for 50+ years.

 

[Calvin2Tony2Emmitt2Julius]

+50 years. WHoo Hoo

 

[Motorola]

When did you become a Cowboys fan?

Early Sixties back in Taylor TX.
Watched the games on a black & white tv, with the wires that connected the set to a metal antenna pole about 10 to 15 feet feet high, set in the ground outside the living room window.

 

[Vanilla2]

Could say 70’s cuz I was born into it but I say 83 since that’s my first pic I have wearing my awesome cowboy jacket.

 

[Cowpolk]

Was at the 1st game played in the Cotton Bowl

 

[ESisback]

Since the Ice Bowl

 

[Bobhaze]

1964 when I was 6 years old. My Dad took me to my first Cowboys game at the Cotton Bowl. Been hooked ever since.

 

[Dallas_Cowboys50]

I think I just barely make the 1980-1989 group. I was born in 84, and I can still remember watching some games in 89, and even having to resort to radio cause of blackouts in DFW area. However, true FANaticism probably didnt start til 92, thats when the whole "I cant miss a game no matter what" mentality most of us have took hold......

 

[DCthrashin]

Watched football a little as a kid then at 12 or 13 I watched romo come in for Bledsoe and have been a fan ever since

 

[Floatyworm]

Interesting poll....Just goes to show Jerry has killed the fan base...there is no younger fans.

 

[Tangle_Foot]

1966 so I get a good chuckle out of some fans telling me how I should go about being a fan, after 50 plus years I'm pretty much set in my ways

Go Cowboys!!!

 

[Pompey-Cowboy]

Early 80's when the NFL began being screened in the UK. Probably 1984 if memory serves me. It started with a 1 hour highlights show of the previous weekends games, screened at 1 in the morning on a Thursday. This quickly became unsatisfying so my brother bought a longwave radio and we listened to live commentary on armed forces radio broadcasting to Europe. We never knew which game it was going to be until it started so it was always a cause for celebration when it was the Cowboys. To think now that we can watch 5 live games every week on Sky TV . Different world.

 

[Reality]

Interesting poll....Just goes to show Jerry has killed the fan base...there is no younger fans.

The poll was just posted so way too early to draw any conclusions.

 

[Cowpolk]

I think I just barely make the 1980-1989 group. I was born in 84, and I can still remember watching some games in 89, and even having to resort to radio cause of blackouts in DFW area. However, true FANaticism probably didnt start til 92, thats when the whole "I cant miss a game no matter what" mentality most of us have took hold......

We traveled to Paris Texas from Dallas to watch the blacked out games My Dad and Grand pop were Cowboys fans My dad played High School football with Forrest Gregg

 

[pansophy]

This poll explains a lot

 

[Motorola]

I think it’s cool how we still have fans on this board that saw Don Meredith, Don Perkins, and the 60’s legends play. I laugh at these threads wanting to publicly drop their loyalty because of a few bad seasons. We have fans who have been showing up for 50+ years.

VanqueroTD - thank you for the acknowledgement to us "Cowboys Elders".

Overall...the franchise has avoided very long periods of subpar/bad teams.
Five years at the beginning__1960-64.
Five years toward the end of the Eighties___1986-90.
Three years at the start of the century___2000-02.

18 losing seasons- 12 with double-digit defeats

6 with a .500 record

38 winning seasons, with 30 being with double-digit wins.

 

[TwistedL0g1k]

Wow! Can't believe so many from the '70s like me. Damn geezers...

 

[black label]

Hard rocking 74

 

[CCBoy]

1960 along with Don Perkins and the 'lil General...then Don Meredith and Bob Lilly.