Worst season in memory for you?

[Section446]

"The catch"... that was the year.

 

[J_Allen]

I was here in 97 and then through all the Campo years and this feels like the worst one.

 

[windward]

I hate to bust your bubble but this team wouldn’t be close to sniffing a SB with NO injuries.

Where did I say that?

 

[morat1959]

Where did I say that?

Go to bed young lad! Take your Dak blankie and sippie cup with you.

 

[plasticman]

1986

The Cowboys were on fire with a 6-2 record halfway through the season.

They had Herschel Walker after the other league crashed and they still had Tony Dorsett. Herschel led in rushing yards and receptions. Backup RB Timmy Newsome was also an awesome pass receiver.

The receivers, Tony Hill and rookie sensation Mike Sherrard were off to great starts. Sherrard, whose mother was an Olympic track star, averaged 27 yards a reception.

TE Doug Cosbie was a solid starter as well.

Jim Jeffcoat had 8.5 sacks in the first 8 games. Eugene Lockhart had 5.

Danny White was the 3rd highest rated QB after 8 games.

Then the bottom fell out. Everything that could go wrong went wrong. They lost games they should have easily won.

Danny White got hurt and was replaced by Steve Pelluer

There was the "Pozderic" game against the Giants. there was the game in which Pelluer threw 5 INT's and the Cowboys lost by 4 points.

There was the game against the Eagles in which Herschel ran 6 times for 122 yards and caught 9 passes for 170 yards, a total of 292 yards from scrimmage....and they lost by two points in the last seconds of the game.

The Cowboys went 1-7 in the last 8 games of 1986 to finish 7-9, the Cowboys first losing season in 20 years.

Tony Dorsett would move on to Denver a year later. Mike Sherrard would break his leg before training camp two years in a row. Tom Landry would be fired two years later.

It's one thing to suffer a losing season when you know your team isn't really good. However, when your team has been winning for 20 consecutive years and you start out 6-2 with exciting new players, losing 7 of the last 8 games is a complete and utter shock.

it was the most miserable season out of the 55 years I have been a Cowboy fan.

 

[StarLord]

This is worst for me. All the coaches should have been replaced after GB, period. It's all predictable. Then they worked out Dak's ludicrous deal. And there doesn't seem to be reason for hope for the next few years. Washington and Philly are online.

 

[Chasing6]

I've been a Cowboys fan since about 1972 (Cardiac Cardinals prior to that). Seen a lot of good times and bad times with this team. Met several of the old guys up close and personal when they practiced at the Forest Lane facility, one could walk right up to a player as they were going out to their car, lol. Anyhow, in my diminishing memory capacity, there have been two other really low points that stick out.

1. The Drop (Jackie Smith - SB XIII 1979)
2. 3-13 (1988)

2024 is shaping up to rival these other two seasons. But this season, it's happening in an almost comical way. At least that's how I've resigned myself from a fan's standpoint. One word truly exemplfies this rendition of the 2024 Dallas Cowboys:

DISFUNCTIONAL

Does half a season count?

 

[gtb1943]

1989.
Started out bad with Landry being fired and then got worse as we were horrible

 

[ElGatoGrande]

I've been a Cowboys fan since about 1972 (Cardiac Cardinals prior to that). Seen a lot of good times and bad times with this team. Met several of the old guys up close and personal when they practiced at the Forest Lane facility, one could walk right up to a player as they were going out to their car, lol. Anyhow, in my diminishing memory capacity, there have been two other really low points that stick out.

1. The Drop (Jackie Smith - SB XIII 1979)
2. 3-13 (1988)

2024 is shaping up to rival these other two seasons. But this season, it's happening in an almost comical way. At least that's how I've resigned myself from a fan's standpoint. One word truly exemplfies this rendition of the 2024 Dallas Cowboys:

Dysfunctional

an embarrassing monument to incompetence which, for me, makes it worse.

After recently moving to a new home and ditching Dishnet for Xfinity I decided to add the cloud recording and full compliment of channels along with the SEC sports channels so I could watch the almost equally embarrassing Sooners. What a disaster, and stupid expensive too!

 

[SlammedZero]

This has been the worst for me, overall. I've had seasons with more painful moments, but as a whole, I hate this one. I'm at my lowest as a fan. Why? Because there is no hope right now. Stuck with a massively overpaid QB, a tight salary cap, a senile old guy playing GM, his puppet son in tow to take over, and another year of this team being nothing more than the very definition of mediocrity.

It's just a massive mix of frustration, disappointment, and that deeper, wearier sense of hopelessness that comes from years of underperformance.

It sucks.

 

[ClappingCarrot]

The most recent Green Bay playoff game completely broke me as a fan. Barring Super Bowl success, I'm not sure I'll ever have the same fire again.

Giants Divisional loss in '07 too still gives me nausea. Sadly, as a man in his mid-thirties, my fondest memories of the Cowboys were mostly regular season wins.

 

[IceStar-D7]

Season was lost before it even started. I think this is the worst season ever. Even worse than the 1989 season. At least then you knew Jimmy was here, and changes were coming BIG time. Not to mention the 2nd pick in the first round the following season.