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Originally Posted by dirno2000
I didn't know that. How could you not have been a fan of the early 90's Cowboy's. Weren't those your formative years? Were you not in Dallas? That doesn't compute with me  . |
Oh yeah, I was in Dallas. Irving in fact, their home.
A couple of factors:
1. I feel like I gained (pro) sports consciousness later than most. I was playing plenty of sports in '92 (when I was 10), but I didn't really follow or watch any. I was (am) a nerd that was always reading.
2. Football has always been a distant, distant third in my major sports hierarchy behind baseball and basketball. So it took me even longer to start caring about professional football.
3. I had a (good-natured) adversarial relationship with my dad growing up. And he loved the Cowboys, so I rooted against them. Not really sure why it didn't happen with the Rangers, but it didn't.
I transitioned into a Cowboys fan sometime in high school after Sanders retired, and now my dad and I watch almost every Cowboy game together, but he'll never, ever let me forget how sorry I was to root against him and them when I was younger.
So there you go.