I became interested in the franchise because of what happened 2011-2013.
Going into the last game of the season 3 consecutive seasons with an 8-7 record and the division championship on the line AND playing The other team contending for the division in week 17 of all 3 years AND losing all 3 games to lose the division and finish at the exact same 8-8 record AND to have it against each of the 3 divisional rival back to back to back is the most impossibly unlikely event in the history of the nfl. It required perfect precision from the schedulemakers, Cowboys staying exactly the same, the GM, the players, the coaches, even opponent teams to be exactly what Dallas needed for 8-8.
Nothing in NFL history is as crazy as that. It’s still unfathomable a decade later. This is when I began to realize stuff like this isn’t uncommon to this franchise, they are bizarrity-incarnate. Every team has skeletons, and every team goofs up. Pittsburgh, GB, SF, even NE. But Josh Brent’s unfortunate event, Greg Hardy’s support, Jay Ratliff’s free ride, Terrell Owens’s crying press conferences, David Irving’s “retirement”, Randy Gregory’s career game log, the Romo Cabo trip, suspensions every offseason, arrests every offseason… these are things that don’t happen this often to any other franchise. Dallas isn’t cursed, they harbor a Jersey Shore atmosphere and it pays off for them (if you want to call it that). Dak Prescott is the only franchise QB I’ve EVER heard of that the team said they need to resign him above all else and still wouldn’t do it for 2 years. They let him hit franchise tag(s) even though they said they’d make sure he was a Cowboy for the long term. That happens to other teams, but not at QB. Never at QB. There’s no question he got way more money because you waited so long to do something you said you were going to do in 2017. Dallas is so weird.
I am 100% an Eagles fan, and I don’t hate the Cowboys or any team. But if I were ranking my preferred, Dallas would be in the 30’s.
For that reason, this may not seem like my favorite place to be on the NFL internet, but for prior reasons it’s by far the most entertaining. I love when Dallas is called America’s Team, because I totally agree. But for very different reasons than initially intended. And the best part is a huge conglomerate of fans think what happens in Dallas is the same that happens every where else. It’s great. Dak Prescott is a perfect example: very few fans here believe what he’s done on the field reflects who he is as a QB. It either implies he’s way better than he’s shown, or way worse than he’s shown. Defense and Zeke have made him not reach his full potential, or defense and Zeke are the reason he’s deceptively better than he is. You don’t find this silliness ANYWHERE else. Tennessee fans do or dont like Tannehill for who he is, Packer fans do or don’t like A-rod for who he is. It’s highly entertaining.
