If you've ever wondered why Dallas Cowboys fans are the best, simply go back to those rare times in the franchise's history that they were not being successful.
Where many sports fans have a tendency to be very impatient, and demand the head of the coach, or sometimes even the franchise owner, when things are not as they think they should be, the Dallas Cowboys fans have stood by the team through two terrible droughts of success. They knew that if they stuck by the team, success would follow. Both times, they were spectacularly proven right.
Good sports teams are not built in five minutes. It takes time to build any team into a cohesive unit where the players will instinctively know what their team mates will be going to do, and where anticipation adds a crucial factor to speed.
This is even more so at the start of a franchise's time in a new league. Dallas Cowboys were in that position back in the early 1960s. Having just been formed as an expansion team, they were without a win in their first season, and continued to struggle throughout the first half of the decade. The owners and fans showed faith in coach Tom Landry, and the result was a period of unmatched success that would last for twenty years. The record of nine consecutive play-off appearances is still an all time NFL record.
Another illustration as to why Dallas Cowboys Fans Are The Best came at the end of the 1980s, just as coach Tom Landry departed. During this season, Dallas endured its worst record since that very first season. They finished 1-15, the worst record in the NFL. The positive side of that, of course, was that they were able to draft the first player in the college draft. They chose wisely in quarterback Troy Aikman. As well as drafting Aikman, the Cowboys traded their running star Herschel Walker for more draft picks, allowing them to bring in a team of young talented players who could all grow together.
The fans' patience was rewarded very quickly, as only three years later Dallas won the Super Bowl. That is an extraordinarily short time for any franchise to go from league worst to league best. They proved their point by winning the Super Bowl again the following year.
It has become increasingly rare for fans of losing sports teams to show any loyalty or faith in the people managing the system. Often, capable coaches are driven out of office by fan power, before they have really had any chance to put their systems into place, and have the players learn those systems to become effective within them. Another coach will then come in, and the process will have to start all over again with nothing achieved. That this did not happen in Dallas, twice when it could have done, is clear testimony as to Why Dallas Cowboys Fans Are The Best.
