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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
(7,830 posts)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
(33,604 posts)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
(51,076 posts)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
(46,179 posts)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.