Would you be happy with a Super Bowl loss?

[Doomsday101]

I have to say this sight always makes me laugh. We lose 2 and people freak out, panic talk of implosion and every other worse case scenario and we have a thread about going to the SB but not winning and many of the same are going Oh no I don't want to go to the SB if we can't win. lol
Logic out the window. lol

 

[Red Dragon]

What's so hard for you to understand?

Like Aikmam, I agree. If you don't win Super Bowl. Season was a failure.

Sure, and by your logic, 90% of Cowboys seasons were failures.


I'd take a 13-3 season, lost-Super Bowl failure over an 0-16 winless failure.

 

[Doomsday101]

Sure, and by your logic, 90% of Cowboys seasons were failures.


I'd take a 13-3 season, lost-Super Bowl failure over an 0-16 winless failure.

It is like a hungry man saying well if I can't have steak I will just starve thank you very much. lol

 

[Crown Royal]

I only got over the Mavs 2006 loss after they stuck it to the heat in 2011.

I'm still salty at Wash the Philanderer over the two World Series losses (probably put it on him more than I should).

I guess I'm saying I would only get over it if they won it the next year or two, preferably against Denver. Yeah you know what? That's the best. Lose one to Denver, win one against Denver. Ware and all get their rings. We all see Kumbaya.

 

[Ken]

I would be disappointed but as long as we played well, i would be fine with it because we are the 3rd or 4th youngest roster in the league and it would indicate our arrow is pointed up!

 

[scottsp]

For all the talk of perpetual Cowboy dominance, it just isn't that day anymore - for any NFL club. So realizing that, realizing we are one of 32 clubs in a pool of parity with little separating contender from also-ran, and remembering this franchise has won just a couple of playoff games in nearly two decades, I would say getting to the Super Bowl would more than I could have ever hoped for with this bunch.

Of course, in the moment, losing that game would be terrible. In retrospect, it would be viewed as quite an accomplishment from where I stand. The ride through the playoffs would be especially sweet, and I would enjoy it thoroughly. You have to these days, because little translates from one season to the next.

 

[Everson24]

Getting the the NFC Championship game and losing is SO MUCH BETTER than getting to the Superbowl and losing IMHO.

I totally disagree. If you lose the NFC championship game you immediately hear about it for the next two weeks as they hype the Super Bowl. The second day after the Super Bowl you hear nothing more about the game.

I would much rather lose the Super Bowl than the NFC Championship game. The losses in 1981 and 1994 to the Niners still hurt.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

anytime we lose it is playcalling the play you did not call would have won it and these fans know exactly what play should have been ran and of course theirs would have worked. I'm truly amazed that more people here are not coaching in the NFL. lol

Ultimate goal is winning SB but I don't care what Aikman said getting to the SB especially for teams who have been dealing with failure for a long time SB is a hell of an improvement. Cowboys last time at the Dance was the 1995 season you damn right I will be dancing in the streets if Dallas were to win the NFC Championship and be playing in the SB.

Oh lord... Ok. When you call a crap play it's not the same as your PC answer head cheese.

I do care what Aikman said.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Sure, and by your logic, 90% of Cowboys seasons were failures.


I'd take a 13-3 season, lost-Super Bowl failure over an 0-16 winless failure.

Ok, Billy "I don't know why I go to extreme" examples Joel.

 

[Red Dragon]

I totally disagree. If you lose the NFC championship game you immediately hear about it for the next two weeks as they hype the Super Bowl. The second day after the Super Bowl you hear nothing more about the game.

Huh? I've heard plenty of ridicule of Super Bowl losers very long after the game.

 

[Doomsday101]

Oh lord... Ok. When you call a crap play it's not the same as your PC answer head cheese.

I do care what Aikman said.

head cheese? lol, may god any time this team loses the peanut gallery comes out and claims well if you did this we would have won. Then again most fans around the NFL do the same thing, they always have the play and game plan to have won the game. Nothing new.

I'm sure you do care what Troy says as long as it falls in line with what you believe. I sometimes agree with Troy as well.

 

[Bullflop]

I'd be happy as a pig in slop going to the Super Bowl but sad as a hog going to the slaughter house if we lost.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

head cheese? lol, may god any time this team loses the peanut gallery comes out and claims well if you did this we would have won. Then again most fans around the NFL do the same thing, they always have the play and game plan to have won the game. Nothing new.

I'm sure you do care what Troy says as long as it falls in line with what you believe. I sometimes agree with Troy as well.

Head cheese = boss! head honcho! figure of authority ;-)


So, it is of your opinion that when they call plays, they simply didn't work. No questioning of the play selection.... At all?

 

[Doomsday101]

Head cheese = boss! head honcho! figure of authority ;-)


So, it is of your opinion that when they call plays, they simply didn't work. No questioning of the play selection.... At all?

I think 1st off execution of the play matters greatly, there have been calls made and were for the taking and players will fail to execute it, I think in a game of 50 to 60 plays within a game that sure teams will make a call to catch a defense off guard. If I am 2nd and 1 why not take a shot down the field as defense is cheating up vs the run or on 3rd down and 1? Will it always work no but these NFL coaches do understand this game better than I think many fans on message board think. You have the Colts who had some very questionable calls on onside kicks but they have worked and people will say how gutsy that is, until it backfires then it was just dumb. There is always going to be 2nd guessing when plays fail or when a coach makes a call of going for it vs a FG or some other situation if does not work.

 

[JoeKing]

Of course you are there to win it and should you lose the SB of course there is disappointment but after the disappointment for some you start to realize the accomplishment of getting to the SB. How do Bills fan feel? I'm sure they would have loved to have won but I also know they take a lot of pride in what Marv Levy, Bruce Smith, Jim Kelly, Thurman Thomas and others achieved. Making 4 SB in a row is unheard of who else has done that?
For this franchise a trip to the SB win or lose is a heck of a turnaround given where we have been and while every year is a new year the reality to build a contending team takes time or as Jason says is a process and to see that process heading in the right direction is big for this franchise

Of course being in 4 SBs in a row is a great accomplishment but I bet they would trade all four for the back to back wins Dallas got against them. That is how much better winning the SB is. That is true accomplishment and where we should derive true satisfaction... not being second best. I remember how it felt to lose to the Steelers twice in the 70's and it is not a feeling I ever want to repeat. No thank you.

 

[KJJ]

I totally disagree. If you lose the NFC championship game you immediately hear about it for the next two weeks as they hype the Super Bowl. The second day after the Super Bowl you hear nothing more about the game.

You never stop hearing about SB losses or SB wins. If you watch enough football SB highlights get shoved in your face through the years and the games continue to be analyzed. The Bills never stop hearing about their 4 straight SB losses or Scott Norwood's game winning FG attempt in SB XXV that went wide right. We never stop hearing about the 90's Cowboys and their 3 SB wins. There's still a lot of conversation over the 70's Steelers and their 4 SB wins. Jackie Smith's dropped pass in the endzone in SB XIII has been shown so many times that some don't even realize Smith was a great player who was voted into the HOF.

The guy has been labelled a goat by those who weren't even born when that game was played because it's been so scrutinized through the years. When you think of Lynn Swann you think about his SB catches because they've been talked about and shown so often. If it wasn't for the win in SB III and Joe Namath's guarantee he would have been just another good QB who would have never been voted into the HOF. That game is talked about all the time and it's the only one Namath ever talks about because it made his career.

The 81 NFC title game is the only non SB that gets talked about as much if not more than some of the great SB games because it was such a classic. It had one of the great plays in history "The Catch." It was the game that put Joe Montana on the map and propelled him into a great HOF career. It was a game that marked the beginning of the great SF dynasty and what many felt was the beginning of the end of the great Cowboy teams and Tom Landry. That's the only non SB loss that pains me almost as much as the Cowboys SB losses.

 

[Doomsday101]

Of course being in 4 SBs in a row is a great accomplishment but I bet they would trade all four for the back to back wins Dallas got against them. That is how much better winning the SB is. That is true accomplishment and where we should derive true satisfaction... not being second best. I remember how it felt to lose to the Steelers twice in the 70's and it is not a feeling I ever want to repeat. No thank you.

I'm sure they would trade all 4 for 1 SB win. We all know what the ultimate goal is however winning the conference championship and making the SB is no small matter, it is an achievement not the ultimate goal. I do not understand what so ever those who would rather not make it to the SB than to make it and not win it. How is losing in the post season better? how is not making post season at all better? Going to the SB is big win or lose but of course what everyone wants is the win.

 

[cowboyfan4lyfe]

According who I lost to and how I lose. If the team lose in the last minute on some mental mistake like they have over the past 4 years. Even though the media and hater try to lump this team with the teams since Romo and Witten been here I think this is completely different team from the Romo/T.O./Barber/Newman years and it starts with the 2010 class of draftees. Dez, Harris, Smith etc. If they lose to Manning or Brady I can live with that. If the Browns happen to make it or a lesser team, and Miles Austin has 3 TD's? No.

 

[JoeKing]

I'm sure they would trade all 4 for 1 SB win. We all know what the ultimate goal is however winning the conference championship and making the SB is no small matter, it is an achievement not the ultimate goal. I do not understand what so ever those who would rather not make it to the SB than to make it and not win it. How is losing in the post season better? how is not making post season at all better? Going to the SB is big win or lose but of course what everyone wants is the win.

I only speak from personal experience... those two SB loses in the 70's were extremely painful. I'd rather not make the playoffs than to get my hopes up that high only to have the rug pull out from under me. Decades later I still recall it. No thank you.

 

[Doomsday101]

I only speak from personal experience... those two SB loses in the 70's were extremely painful. I'd rather not make the playoffs than to get my hopes up that high only to have the rug pull out from under me. Decades later I still recall it. No thank you.

I was at 1 of them 1st meeting between the Cowboys and Steelers. Dallas was not even suppose to get to the SB, it took a hail mary in Minn who had outplayed us then a big underdog vs the LA Rams to get to the SB. Dallas was the underdog in the game and Steeler fans afterward were hollering we won the game and a lot of Cowboy fans were hollering yeah but we won the money. It was funny. The game as was the 2nd 1 vs Pitt considered 2 of the best SB ever played and I take pride in that. 1st championship game I watched was the ICE Bowl frankly the game was not all that the weather became the story and the game became this historic game and thought Dallas lost again I take great pride in helping make the history of the NFL what it is today. I hate losing but win or lose I hold me head up proud to call myself a Dallas Cowboys fan. You offer me a chance for a SB win or lose I will take it gladly.