My family left Tulsa in 1964. I liked the Cowboys okay because that was the game in town every week, and of course in Plano, we got the Tom Landry Show every week. But I'm older than 95% of you, or more. Larry's dumb question or assertion is pretty full of holes. Unsurprisingly.
The first NFL game I watched from cover to cover was the 1959 Championship game, when there were only 12 pro football teams in the USA. Western Conference: Packers, Bears, Lions, Rams, 49ers and out of character, the Baltimore Colts, which became my favorite team for two reasons. I loved Johnny Unitas and those uniforms, only seen in black and white. And they won that first title game I'd ever seen. Also, NBC showed only two teams, either Colt games or Steeler games.
The East was the Giants, Eagles, Redskins, Steelers, St. Louis Cardinals and the first version of the Cleveland Browns. The next year that nearly doubled,with the Cowboys added to the NFL, and the new league, the AFL with eight teams. New York Titans, Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills and Houston Oilers in the East.
The Los Angeles Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Denver Broncos and Dallas Texans in the West. The whole AFL got started because the two primary bidders for the Dallas team in the NFL were Clint Murchison and Lamar Hunt. Hunt started the AFL because he didn't get the NFL franchise. At nine years old, when I first saw the new league's football cards, I thought maybe Topps was starting to have college teams cards.
But I stayed a Colt fan through the end of the career Johnny U. And a little longer. My dad took me to the first NFL championship game in Dallas after the 1966 season. The winner would go to the first Super Bowl. But four years later, in SB V, I pulled for the Colts when they beat the Cowboys 16-13 on Jim O'Brien's last second field goal. I didn't become a Cowboy fan as my first choice until two Sooners I knew, Randy Hughes and Kyle Davis, made the Cowboys '75 team as rookie in the 12 team class known as the dirty dozen. And the Cowboys went to the Super Bowl losing then the most competitive well played game to that time. They 'Boys were a wild card team, back when there was only one from each side.
I don't know if I'd ever have been a Cowboy fan, if not for OUr move to Texas 59 years ago, but I'd probably have been. But I'll NEVER be a fan of their owner.