When did you stop watching?

[Cowboys22]

I stopped watching the day after they signed Romo to a $100 million extension. That's the day I called Directv and canceled my Sunday Ticket. Anyone who didn't see this continued mediocracy is either blind or stupid. No offense! The Dallas Cowboys are not getting another penny from me until Jerry steps down as GM or dies. As for the Sunday night game, since it was on national tv, I tuned in off and on during the 1st half. By halftime I was looking for something more entertaining and settled on Finding Bigfoot. Yes, that seemed like less of a waste of time and I never once turned back to the game.

 

[morasp]

I watched the first couple drives and went to bed while we had a lead, tivo'd it and checked the score in the morning. Deleted it from TiVo without watching the rest to free up disk space

 

[jobberone]

I "liked" your reply. Not that I like your suffering but that description is priceless. U snooping me?

No. Just feeling Cowboy.

 

[TwentyOne]

It was third and one early in the game. They call a freakin time out.

Then.....wait for it....like the sun rising......FLAG!!!! Offsides and facing third and six with a wasted time out. Watched Open Range for the fifth time. Never looked back.

FTR - I don't reschedule picking up dog crap in my backyard to catch the game anymore. It really piles up.

I stopped watching (the live games) after the KC loss. After that it was clear to me that this team is medicore and will go nowhere near a Chamipionship.

The Giants game was already bad, but i wanted to wait another week or two to make up my mind.

 

[jobberone]

It was third and one early in the game. They call a freakin time out.

Then.....wait for it....like the sun rising......FLAG!!!! Offsides and facing third and six with a wasted time out. Watched Open Range for the fifth time. Never looked back.

FTR - I don't reschedule picking up dog crap in my backyard to catch the game anymore. It really piles up.

I was actually ok with it although it was maddening to have to need it. At times you have a call made for a couple of plays and neither will likely work. That was probably a good idea to call a TO. But to commit a penalty afterwards was just flabbergasting. All teams get those presnap penalties but we seem to get more than our share and at the worst times....in the RZ. ulls hair out:

 

[Alexander]

I never turn a game off. As Forrest Gump's momma would say "you never know what your gonna get". Just from watching Dallas and the Mets over the years, I have seen about 50 new ways to lose a ballgame. FWIW, the Mets lead that category

I am usually that way. But I turned it off at halftime when it was clear we were overmatched. First time I can think of since the Campo era. That is sad.

I still plan to watch every game as I have since forever, but my tolerance for watching an inept defense and listless offense on top of it is making it harder to do.

 

[CaptainMorgan]

I was hoping for 8 more yards passing just to add fuel to the fire. Has to hit rock bottom before it gets better, right? I keep telling myself that anyways

How many times have we hit rock bottom over the last 17 years? I can name a dozen times and yet here we are still hitting rock bottom lol

 

[jobberone]

I sense that Jerry believes this team is only a few plays away from being 8-2. The man is lost.

I don't know. Jerry is not as stupid as many think. He can't be to have forged that empire and I mean empire. But he has failed his job for whatever the reasons. He may have thought this team was not far away at one time this season but he doesn't think that now IMO. What's troubling to me is he is not going to be able to evaluate the defense this year and somewhat the offense outside of the film room. There's just not a proper sample. And that might delay some decisions that would have been more evident had the defense stayed on the field.

 

[Carolina Cowboy]

I listened to the bitter end as I was driving from Pompano Beach, FLA to Raleigh, NC. Nothing better to do than continue to develop my Dallas Cowboys ulcer. I knew as soon as Sean went down it was going to be REALLY bad. I turned to my fiancé and said "This is going to get ugly". At the end I was hoping the Saints would hang over 50 on us, so I was let down there as well. Insane how crazy bad this team is right now regardless of the reasons.

 

[scottsp]

Call me a glutton, but I tend to sit through the final gun regardless of the outcome. I sat through 44-6, the 2008 finale in Philadelphia, which was about the worst I thought anyone could stand since it not only put a cork in our season, but it left more questions going into an offseason than any I could remember.

This one wasn't so bad given the outcome was somewhat expected, except the part about our offense doing a complete no-show.

As for sitting through losses in general, I would say I learn more about a club in defeat, particularly in games such as the one in New Orleans, in which we were thoroughly dominated. Since teams are rarely the same in December as they were in August. And so, I feel the progression is important, and I like to see how we handle this type of adversity, and more so, how we respond going forward.

Or maybe the real answer is, I find this sort of humiliation to be necessary from time to time; maybe even therapeutic on some level. Perhaps it serves as an eye-opener to the right people. Then again, that might be hoping for too much.

 

[john van brocklin]

It was third and one early in the game. They call a freakin time out.

Then.....wait for it....like the sun rising......FLAG!!!! Offsides and facing third and six with a wasted time out. Watched Open Range for the fifth time. Never looked back.

FTR - I don't reschedule picking up dog crap in my backyard to catch the game anymore. It really piles up.

When my daughter needed the TV to watch Spong Bob reruns.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

I never miss a game. I watch it live. I watch every play. I feel it’s my obligation as a fan and in my humble opinion what defines a true fan.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Why would you stop watching? That was the best comedy I have seen in years.

I didn't find the humor all that great because it was the same crap over and over, same stupid mistakes.

 

[fifaguy]

the onside kick followed by 3 negative plays and a punt. I also turned it off when we went 3 and out with a minute left before half because I knew we would give up at least 3 points before half then. Turned out to be another 7 though.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Halftime....I turned it off and just hoped to wake up the next morning to see some kind of miraculous comeback. But it was clear in the 1st half that Dallas had no chance of stopping New Orleans' offense.

I've probably turned off maybe 4-5 games early in my life. so that's how disappointed i was Sunday night.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I never miss a game. I watch it live. I watch every play. I feel it’s my obligation as a fan and in my humble opinion what defines a true fan.

You're not obligated to watch every play any more than you're obligated to watch every scene of a crappy movie. If they put out a lousy product, whether it's a terrible movie or a bad football team, they should expect people to walk out on it. If they want people to pay their good money for it and spend their valuable time on it, they have to put out a good product.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

You're not obligated to watch every play any more than you're obligated to watch every scene of a crappy movie. If they put out a lousy product, whether it's a terrible movie or a bad football team, they should expect people to walk out on it. If they want people to pay their good money for it and spend their valuable time on it, they have to put out a good product.

To me that sounds like a bandwagon fan. Only watch when everything is going great, run for the hills when it goes bad. For me, the actual act of watching the Cowboy game is what makes me a fan. Not chatting on message boards or wearing Cowboys apparel. Fans that sit through every brutal second earn my respect as a fan. Just my opinion. Everyone can have their own definition of a true fan and they would probably be correct.

 

[Gaede]

Halftime. I never used to quit watching but have many times in past 3 years. You just know when they're done. When the players are flat from the get go-save yourself 4 hours

 

[landroverking]

Watched until the end. I had taken off Monday. Now if I had to go to work the next I would have bailed in the 3rd.

 

[DuceizBak]

I had a headache the night of the game.. i hate headaches, so i really didn't care for the game...when i get a headache, nothing matters more than getting rid of it, so I really wasn't affected by this loss and didn't care much.