When did you realize you were a fanatic?

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To go out onto the Internet, and look for a website, dedicated to the cowboys take a certain level of devotion. So, like the title says when did u realize were devoted more then the average fan.

For me, it was when I was in basic training. I had my mom print off articles from DC.com... Thats how I "watched" 2008... most ppl wanted letters from family, I wanted cowboy updates.
 
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radioactivecowboy88 said:
To go out onto the Internet, and look for a website, dedicated to the cowboys take a certain level of devotion. So, like the title says when did u realize were devoted more then the average fan.

For me, it was when I was in basic training. I had my mom print off articles from DC.com... Thats how I "watched" 2008... most ppl wanted letters from family, I wanted cowboy updates.
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I was in Air Force Basic Training in Dec 95-Jan 96 and it was brutal not being able to watch the Boys play. Our instructor was cool though, he actually brought his TV to his office and turned up the volume so we could hear the AFC Championship Colts vs Steelers and NfC Championship Packers vs Cowboys. We couldn't go in there and watch it with him but we were all listening.

I was lucky though because we graduated a week before the Superbowl so I got to see Steelers vs Cowboys game at Tech School in the dorm.
 
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When I was a young kid. I insisted that my 4th birthday party theme be "Dallas Cowboys"
 
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skinsscalper said:
1981: The Catch.

I was 9 years old and I literally cried for hours. I remember my mom trying to console me saying that it was "Just a game". I told her "Not to me it isn't"! Been a diehard ever since.
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i am right about that age. and i was already a fanatic by then too. i just didn't know it.

back then, no internet, out of the Texas area...no cable tv either!!! i would subscribe to the Dallas Cowboys Weekly. it was a newspaper. i eagerly waited its arrival....it would take weeks!!! i saved as many as i could, but they got lost in a fire...... my fandom, has only got worse over the years.

and no, i am not a nerd!! sorry for the outdated term "generation look down".

u know, when u get older. done some things, etc. etc....been around. you come to a point that you only want to spend time on things you love....that's me at least. and for me. i spend my remaining entertainment time, on the Dallas cowboys. even the bad years....

years like this, makes all that time and energy and money, worth it. it comes back in orders of magnitude.... such a good good year. one of my favorites ever. more special , to me, then some of the SB years....
 
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skinsscalper said:
1981: The Catch.

I was 9 years old and I literally cried for hours. I remember my mom trying to console me saying that it was "Just a game". I told her "Not to me it isn't"! Been a diehard ever since.
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My story as well, except I was 8.
 
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When I was a kid my mom found a brown stain in my underwear when she was getting ready to do laundry.
Most would say so what, moms all over the world can find brown stains in there little boys underwear.
The extraordinary thing about this case was the brown stain was in the shape of the dallas cowboys star.

Not sure what it means that the next year I became a diehard cowboys fan...mom thinks it was a sign or fate. I don't know.
 
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BrAinPaiNt said:
When I was a kid my mom found a brown stain in my underwear when she was getting ready to do laundry.
Most would say so what, moms all over the world can find brown stains in there little boys underwear.
The extraordinary thing about this case was the brown stain was in the shape of the dallas cowboys star.

Not sure what it means that the next year I became a diehard cowboys fan...mom thinks it was a sign or fate. I don't know.
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0.o I'm not sure that's a good thing lol
 
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Used to have every thanksgiving at my aunts house.

Nothing to do after eating turkey.

Turned On tv.

Saw the star in the helmet...........Whooahhh....dats nice.

Then flipping channels in January,.. Saw Dorsett run 99 yards for TD.

That's my team!
 
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radioactivecowboy88 said:
To go out onto the Internet, and look for a website, dedicated to the cowboys take a certain level of devotion. So, like the title says when did u realize were devoted more then the average fan.

For me, it was when I was in basic training. I had my mom print off articles from DC.com... Thats how I "watched" 2008... most ppl wanted letters from family, I wanted cowboy updates.
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I think I realized it when I was a kid. Back then games would get blacked out locally. They could still broadcast from Abilene and Waco. We had a big antenna on the house that my Dad and I mounted on a pipe that come all the way down to the ground. We could use a big pipe wrench to turn it. If we turned it just right we could pick up those out of town stations. One of us would turn it while the other would watch the TV to "turn" the reception. My Mom was usually in the middle relaying the "turn" commands back and forth. The picture was never great, but good enough to see the game.

While in college in the eighties, I subscribed to both the Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald and I would cut out the sections pertaining to the Cowboys and keep them. They would have a few nuggets of info on draft pick measurable(s) and that type of thing.

At some point after the Time Herald went out of business, Mikey Spagnola and some guys started putting out some info that you could only obtain by fax and it was a paid subscription type thing. I subscribed.

I don't really remember when I first stumbled onto an internet message board.
 
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I was probably 13 or 14 when I found an old school style forum - for the life of me I can't remember the name, but a well known member's name was Hitman.

Used to have some heated debates over QC/Hutch/Henson.

Then when I was 17 I found CZ in 04 and haven't had another source since.
 
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Been watching and cheering for the Cowboys since 1965 or 66. But back then nobody else I knew even watched the NFL.
Sometimes I wouldn't find out if Dallas won or not until reading it in the Tuesday morning paper. (we didn't have a Monday paper back then)

It was not until the early 70's when the stoolers began to win and people started being stooler fans that I realized I was cheering for a different team than everybody else.

I too got the Dallas Cowboys weekly in the mail. Sometimes we would play the next weeks game before I got last weeks Cowboys weekly. I would still read every word from cover to cover.

I knew then that I was a Dallas Cowboys fanatic.
 
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