So with this post, are you officially resigning as a Cowboys fan?
No, but it could happen.
I was raised in to this. My dad and uncle have been Cowboy fans since the mid-seventies so when I was born they were already die-hard fans who had seen the Cowboys win a Super Bowl.
I'm sure the guys here who I am Facebook friends with have even seen pics of me wearing my little Tony D Hutch kids Cowboys uniform when I was a little kid way back in 1984.
My point is, I have roots planted in this that go very deep.
So if somebody wants to question my fandom then so be it. I won't lose any sleep at night over it. But I know how far back my love for this team goes and how the great moments in team history mean more to me than just sports. Some of the very best memories and moments of my entire life were spent in the 90s as a young adolescent spending my Sundays with the two most important men in my life watching that dynasty unfold.
Whether I was waking up early to start an all-day extravaganza of football at home, or heading to Texas stadium with them both to witness some of the greatest games in team history together, the Dallas Cowboys are responsible are some of the most cherished moments of my life.
But this just isn't fun anymore for me. And even when things are going pretty well like they did last year or 2014, it still doesn't mean to me what it used to. The good doesn't come anywhere close to outweighing the bad. And being as both my father and uncle have grown empathetic and disinterested to the Cowboys situation as well, that makes for a scenario where I am even less inclined to be bothered by this.
Heartbreaking losses and terrible seasons suck to have to go through, but that's what you do as a fan. Those things I can suffer through. But what I will not stand for, not any longer at least, is to watch that team fail to get better on purpose while the owner and his family and insult our intelligence as fans and basically tell us to go screw ourselves.
No way.
So if they continue on this way for the next several years and here I am going on multiple seasons of not watching or paying attention to the Cowboys at all, then it's only human nature that I'm just not going to care anymore. I'll grow disinterested and get to a point where eventually I'm not even the slightest bit interested..... Like an old pastime that doesn't concern you at all any longer.
Like I said, it's human nature to become completely withdrawn from something once you're no longer active in it for an extended period of time.
So am I completely resigning today? No.
But in two or three years, it's a great possibility.