Dallas fans?

[rogerashton]

OK, I was a Dallas fan myself for 50 years. I rooted for the team in the fall of '60, when they were an expansion team and went 0-11-1. I figured that entitled me to root for the Cowboys, even though I have lived in Philadelphia since '76.

But I divorced the Cowboys in 2010, on the fiftieth anniversary. They just are not the team I married.

Yes, they lost a lot when I married them, but that's not it. Anyway, there were a lot of years in those fifty, after Staubach, when Dallas was pretty bad. But they are not a football enterprise any more. They are an apparel enterprise. A sweatshop apparel enterprise.

So -- Chris Christie pulls for a fashion firm. OK. What does that tell you?

[RiverLover]

1. Former Cowboy fan here. TOTALLY agree!

I went to several games back when Aikman was quarterback. (Had a HUGE crush on Daryl Johnston. )

I was seriously a fan.

But I quit them when their jerk owner Jones fired Jimmy Johnson...An apparel enterprise nails it. They're an image, not a team.

[edhopper]

2. I have always disliked the Cowboys

I was a Packer fan back during that big rivalry.

But when they proclaimed themselves "Americas Team" I started to hate them.

When they built a stadium with a whole in the roof so God could look down, I despised everything about them.


That said, Romo is better than his critics say and Murry and Bryant are great.

[madokie]

3. I hope they go all the way this year

When Romo is on he is awesome but when he's not he sucks. Yes to Murray and Bryant. I just wouldn't want to be the one who has to put up with Dez after he has a good game is all I know for sure.

[LWolf]

4. I was once a Dallas fan,

because that's how I was introduced to football when I was 11 or 12...a family friend took us to their summer training camp. I watched them through the season and made a bunch of money (for a kid) betting them to beat the local team, and infuriating local fans of that team. So I was a fan for 20 years or so.

They began to lose their luster when Jerry Jones got ahold of them; I never could stomach Jimmy Johnson.

Still, about the time they were losing me, so was professional football as a sport, for a whole host of reasons.

I haven't watched an entire football game from start to finish for about 15 years.

Chris Christie? I didn't need news about his support of the 'boys over his own team to know he's an ass; he's a Republican.

Nice oxymoron, there, huh? Or not, depending on one's perspective.

[Nye Bevan]

5. Whoops, clicked on this thread thinking you meant the Ewings (nt)