I suspect that I share a similar story with many Dallas Cowboys fans. I fell in love with the team when I was very young, and was shortly rewarded with three Super Bowl winning teams in four years. That kind of historical success has a way of buying many years of loyalty, even when years of frustration pile up on each other.
I admit that there were years that I would rather turn the T.V. off than watch another Cowboys game. In public situations I would try to beat other people to the punch and crack jokes about Dallas so that it would take the fun out of picking on a fan of the ‘Boys.