When did you realize you were a fanatic?

[Setackin]

lol! ....sounds...painful.....may want to see a doctor about that.

Let me ask you, did you have thos glow in the dark stars taped to the ceiling and wall in your bedroom?

Yep lol

So does my daughter lol

 

[Seven]

Back in 1980 or so, me and the guys were out on the trails doing tricks on our 3-wheelers and dirt bikes. Well, a couple of weeks before that, my dad bought me a Dallas watch, nothing special, but I had to have one.

Anyways, one of my friends threw a rock at a bird, missed and hit my watch and broke the face. I cried like a little girl(was 9 at the time) and he started crying too, not sure why. We thought we were tough little guys back then. He knew what the watch meant to me and paid me $5 a week for a new one. He actually gave me his allowance for about 3 months and I never got a new watch What is funny is that Kennith(the guy who broke the watch) was the neighborhood bully and this instance was the only time I ever saw compassion from him.

To this day, every time I run into him, the watch is the first thing mentioned

I realized then that I was hooked on my Cowboys and never looked back. I still have a set of Cowboy cheerleader playing cards around somewhere from the late '70's.

I have those cards too.

Actually I have all the stuff I got for Christmas from the seventies. Helmet lamp, radio, clock, bank. A stocking hat and vest.

 

[Carolina Cowboy]

Loved them forever. I realized I was a fanatic when friends and family members no longer wanted to watch games with me in the post Jimmy era, because I knew what "should" have been ... But I'm all better now

 

[CF74]

When I was a little boy I would watch games with my dad and he had a Dallas Cowboys Weekly script that I would look at all the time and sometimes I got it in the mail before he did and he would just come a snatch it away lol

I'd always wait till he left for work and snatch it back. Now I spend hours everyday online reading about them every chance I get. 79ish

 

[Howboutdemcowboys31]

When I was born and the doctors couldn't separate my arms from the "X" position

 

[cajuncocoa]

I remember crying for the rest of the afternoon when Jim O'Brien kicked that FG at the end of SBV in 1971 (our first SB appearance, the anniversary of which is Saturday ).

 

[cowboys69fan]

Nice thread, we need something like this on a lighter note after last week,
My father handed this Cowboys love down to me,can remember as a kid watching so many games with him, I can remember being about 7 when the Cowboys played the Broncos in the 1977 Super Bowl,and we beat the stink out of them, silly as it sounds me and my favorite cousin ran outside after winning the game celebrating and as happy as a kid could be,silly kids, we lined up some Orange Crush cans and started crushing the heck out of them as hard as we could as to symbolize the Cowboys crushing the so called Orange Crush Defense!
Memories, I knew after that I was a Cowboys fan for life! Love my Cowboys!
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[USMarineVet]

For me, it was 1972. I was 7 years old. We used to travel from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to visit my Grandparents once a month. All of my cousins were older than me, but they always had football on during those weekends we would travel up the mountain. Now being from Pennsylvania, you would think they would be Steelers or Eagles fans, but they weren't. All except one was a Cowboys fan. Around that time my Dad traveled to Alaska to start a new chapter of his life; working on the Alaskan Pipeline. Believe it or not, he used to play Tackle for the Jersey City Giants who were more or less the farm team for the Giants back in those days. He played with them after coming back from the Korean War. Big time Die Hard Giants fan, my Dad. Well, needless to say, with an ocean between us, he didn't have much of an impact on me sports-wise. So it was my cousins who had the influence on me.

The play I remember most that sent my head spinning and never wanting to look back, was a flea-flicker from Roger Staubach to Golden Richards for a touchdown. It wasn't just the fact that it was a touchdown, but more the energy I saw from my family hootin' and hollerin' and basically being a bunch of crazy people. I couldn't stop laughing and smiling for a half hour.

That was it. I was hooked. Signed, sealed and delivered. A certified Dallas Cowboys fan for life. It had to be fate. With a Dad who nearly played for the Giants, and cousins who lived in PA who rightfully should have been a fan of one of our arch-nemesis', the Star shone through. And all I can say is Thank God for that!

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

I saw my first game in person back in the preseason before the 1988 season. We were playing the Oilers. I think we lost something like 45-10 and specifically remember people chanting "Sweeeeney" as Steve Pelluer was playing (I'm guessing poorly). I don't remember much else as I was only 8 or 9 years old at the time.

In 1989, I remember when Landry was fired and how big a deal that was. I paid a lot more attention to Cowboys games that season, but we were 1-15 and I seem to remember a lot of games being blacked out. I very specifically remember the Commanders game and our only win of the season. I was driving the Steve Walsh bandwagon at the age of 10. I'd say this level of fandom extended through 1990.

I guess 1991 is when I become a hardcore fan. I didn't miss a game. I remember beating the undefeated Commanders that year and just dancing around the room and just how gutted I was when we lost to the Lions in the playoffs.

 

[lane]

i started watching after the 1975 hail mary game...how could you not love this team?
i was 8.
the rest of the 70's till the early 80's were beautiful.
i used to be very hard to be around as a teenager watching the cowboys in the later 80's.
my parents would look at me like i was crazy.
the man in my avatar was my favorite player other than randy in that time period.

a true ballhawk ...sure tackler was md26

 

[chagus]

The very first time i felt "loss" was when my Dallas Cowboys #12 Staubach bicycle was stolen from me. This was in maybe back in '81. Hurt like hell. That's when i knew this was my team for life.

Gosh i wish i still had that bike. It was a beauty.

In retrospect, i feel so bad for my folks... 98 bucks was ALOT of money back then. D*#@m thieves.

 

[Jarv]

1970.

 

[mahoneybill]

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.

Vintage fan, so small B&W TV as a teenager in the 60's. Was more interesting than watching all the protests........

 

[mahoneybill]

When I was born and the doctors couldn't separate my arms from the "X" position

Dez would like your dedication

 

[hornitosmonster]

Causal fans do not join message boards or talk Cowboys football year round.

 

[Doomsday101]

I knew it when me and my dad would tell my mom we wanted to visit my grand mother who lived outside of Beaumont, not because we missed her but because on blackout games in Houston we knew they would be showing the Cowboys where she lived. Spent many Sundays at my grand mothers. lol

 

[Doomsday101]

The other sign I knew I was a fanatic was I could remember the name and number of every player on the roster yet when my mom would ask me where I left a jacket or a book I could not remember where I put it. lol She would get mad and say you can remember all the players and their numbers but you seem to forget everything else and I would tell her yeah but the Cowboys are important. lol

 

[Setackin]

Causal fans do not join message boards or talk Cowboys football year round.

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