I hate the Cowboys, but at this point even I have a little sympathy for their fans. Most of the horrible 90’s bandwagoners have either moved on to new teams or have now suffered through a decade of spectacular failure. The Cowboys still get way too much hype, Jerry Jones is still a horrible person, Dallas is still a dumpy city that no one likes in a state the rest of the union hates, but the Boys haven’t won more than a single playoff game in over ten years, and they have a good amount of very like able players on the team. So it’s hard to hate the Cowboys individually, but hating the Cowboys as an organization is still easy.
The Cowboys fans have had it rough though. Every game starts out with higher expectations, followed by early mistakes, culminating in a bizarrely competent comeback which inevitably comes up just short thanks to some fantastic error, like Dez Bryant’s fingers landing out of bounds. My Giants are just as weirdly inconsistent, but at least they have a weird tendency to actually win in the end.
This comment fits much better with the Giants, starting out slowly upwards, but then horribly downwards and the last sign should read “patented midseason slump” or something to that affect.
Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly it for Cowboys fans… it’s been a rough 15 years. But, hey, at least I was at that playoff win against the Eagles!
And the city itself kicks ass, punk!
::drinks his alcohol:: Mmmm, it DOES make the games more bearable…!
Yeah, it’s wonderful watching the Cowboys self-destruct year after year, though Esben’s not exactly wrong about the Giants being like that too. It’s why year after year, the Eagles can be horrible through the end of October and I still have faith that they’ll win the NFC East because once November hits they just start owning. Take this year for example: 3-5 in the first 8 games, 7-1 in the next 8. That’s just the way things always are with the Eagles, where if we’re within two games of the Giants and/or Redskins and within four of the Cowboys–even if it’s all three of them ahead of us–with 8 left to play, it still feels like we have a chance. Especially if we still have both of our games against the Giants in hand, because if they gave us one of those weird schedules with the same divisional opponent in Week 15 and Week 17, I’d consider the division as good as clinched with a 1-game deficit to the Giants after 13 games as long as the Redskins and Cowboys were behind us. G-Men will never be able to win that game when it counts.
Jerry Jones and Pat Bowlen were head to head for HoF couple years back. By every possible measure of a great owner Bowen is clearly more deserving. Playoff appearances, wins, winning seasons, conference championships, super bowl appearances, everything except a tie when it comes to super bowl wins. But Jerry had a guy in the room when they were deciding (and likely spent a bit in bribes if I had a guess) so he got in.
All that while Bowlen struggles with Alzheimer’s, so you know it would be nice for him to get in while he is still capable of appreciating it.
I disliked Jones immensely before that, but now I pretty much despise him.
No rational person could look at the ownership accomplishments of the two men and say yeah Jerry Jones was the superior owner, but here we are.
I said rational person btw so any cowboy fans who disagree obviously don’t apply.
During Bowlen’s ownership the Broncos have more super bowl appearances than LOSING SEASONS, and until this year (2018) wraps up had never had back to back losing seasons.
Clearly I am a bit hot about that still, a couple years later.