I checked out of that clusterfuck of a game after it became clear in the second half that Dallas would find another way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
I'll watch the last game if it's available locally but fvck the rest of the season, the draft, TC and all the offseason crap. I'll probably still watch when they're on next season because I was a fan decades before Arkansas Skeletor took the helm but all the peripheral crap can kiss my ass. I'm getting too old for this shit.
That is actually how it started for me.
I couldn't just turn it off overnight but I knew that I had to do something because it didn't make sense to continue on supporting the team the way that I had all my life up until the end of the 2011 season.
It was the end of the 2011 season when I knew that I had to do something. That was easily one of the two most difficult seasons I've had as a fan since the 2000's began. But seeing how aggressive we were in the 2012 offseason both in regards to player acquisition and bringing in Rob Ryan (looks really silly in hindsight, I know), I got intrigued again just enough to be like "Hmmmmm....."
But even then, I missed about four or five complete games in that season Once it was clear from the beginning that we were going to be the same average team we had been in the years leading up to that point.
But after we lost the season finale in 2012 to the Redskins, that is when I made a conscious effort to force myself to lose interest. So I made myself not follow the draft or any of the offseason stuff or anything else like that. And what ensued was a 2013 season where I missed about eight or nine games.
From that point forward, my interest has never been the same and it is not hard at all to not pay attention to the Cowboys now. I don't even care for the draft anymore nor do I watch much NFL football that doesn't involve the Cowboys. I haven't watched a non Cowboys playoff game in years, and outside of a few minutes here or there, I can't really tell you what happened in any of the recent Super Bowls either.
I don't think my love for the team will ever be the same even if they were to change how they do business. And the reason that I know this is, even in that great 2014 season when we finally had that look about us, I still wasn't enjoying wins like I used to before I made myself go on strike, so to speak.
Yes, I was still enjoying the wins but they weren't making my entire week like they used to in years past. And the losses bothered me next to none, just like they didn't the previous two seasons when I didn't care.
That told me that my love for the Cowboys was probably never going to be the same but I don't regret it one bit. It was one of the smarter decisions I've made in recent years.
My point is, you may have to fight the urge in the beginning to watch or read about them and you may even have to force yourself to do it. But once you have, the disinterest will start to come naturally.
You'll be much better off, believe me.