By Mac Engel
tengel@star-telegram.com
You have the power.
You can make change.
But this will be hard, will require great patience, and there is no guarantee of results. Along with some creativity, this will require more Cowboys fan intestinal fortitude than ever previously displayed.
If you are sick, tired and mad about Jerry Jones GMing your team, do something about it. If there can be an Arab Spring, why not a Cowboys Spring?
Those started with an idea, and a Facebook account. Other than my Twitter account, @MacEngelProf, social media is mostly a complete waste of time, but it can be used for something other than displaying what you ate for dinner.
By comparison, however, the good people of Tunisia and Egypt will have had an easier time getting rid of their respective leaders than a few million frustrated Cowboys fans theirs (OK, so the analogy is inappropriately over the top; Jerry's a good dude, unlike, that Hosni Mubarak fella).
As powerful as Randy Galloway is, he can't get this done alone. Neither can any other member of the media, and the vast majority of us were taught not to care either way.
This is about you.
The 2012 NFL season begins this week with the combine in Indianapolis, meaning the Cowboys' general manager will be hard at work evaluating who should be the latest members to join the team to get it to the Super Bowl.
There may not be a greater friend or supplier of wonderful content in recent memory than Jerry Jones. God bless you, friend, for your thick skin.
But you don't care about that. You want wins.
You have spoken, repeatedly, and with language that would make a trucker blush, that you have zero faith in GM Jerry; as long as GM Jerry is in charge of football decisions success as defined by the Dallas Cowboys' previous generations will remain unattainable. If the Cowboys should win, it will be the blind (really rich) squirrel finding the Lombardi Acorn Trophy.
Jerry has repeatedly said he has zero intention of turning over his GM duties to a "football guy." You forgot Jerry played at Arkansas, which makes him more of a football guy than most of us.
Being a GM is why he bought an NFL franchise -- so he could influence the actual game itself and not just the business side. Imagine how much fun that would be?
You, the fan, have screamed you are sick and tired of GM Jerry, however, all of Cowboys nation acts as his greatest enabler because you have to get your fix.
What to do? Because there is not a single greater sports addiction than NFL football, this is going to be very hard with the promise of no results, but the first and loudest step is to quit.
Cold turkey. No patch. There is no non-Cowboyholic beverage to substitute.
No more buying hats, shirts or gear with the Star.
No more buying single-game tickets, and forget the season-ticket package.
This is the only way; yet know if this is the path you choose, there is no promise of the desired results.
The good people of Cincinnati have been trying for the past few years to dump Bengals owner Mike Brown through apathy.
The Bengals were once a solid franchise led by one of the pioneering members of the sport, the late Paul Brown.
When Brown died in 1991, so too did the franchise as it has been led by his son, Mike.
Cowboys fans, you don't know pain until your team is run by Mike Brown.
After two decades of some of the NFL's worst football, Bengals fans spoke. Despite having a team with good young players, being in contention all season and putting a good product on the field, the Bengals ranked last in the NFL in attendance in 2011.
In a football-mad state, they don't care. Mike Brown broke them.
Three times in '11, they had crowds fewer than 42,000. Before their regular-season home finale against the Ravens that had a playoff berth on the line, the Bengals had to create a buy-one, get-one free promotion to season-ticket holders to get a sellout and avoid the embarrassing TV blackout for the locals.
Despite the fans' best intentions, Brown remains in power. You figure, however, when the home pro football team draws fewer fans than a Texas high school playoff game, something will eventually break.
The one glaring difference between the Mike Brown regime and the Jerry Jones era is intent: Mike Brown does not care whereas Jerry very much does.
No one can fault Jerry's intentions and desire to win. No one can fault his ability as the owner and/or team president; the guy sells his brand as well as anyone in his business.
Yet here we sit at the start of 2012 with as disenfranchised of a fan base that has ever existed in his tenure as GM.
You have said you are angry, sick, tired and frustrated. We have seen, however, anger still sells merchandise and tickets. Apathy can't sell anything.
You may not have a lot, but you do have power in this scenario. It is your choice whether you exercise it.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/02/20/3749044/its-time-for-dallas-cowboys-fans.html#storylink=cpy
tengel@star-telegram.com
You have the power.
You can make change.
But this will be hard, will require great patience, and there is no guarantee of results. Along with some creativity, this will require more Cowboys fan intestinal fortitude than ever previously displayed.
If you are sick, tired and mad about Jerry Jones GMing your team, do something about it. If there can be an Arab Spring, why not a Cowboys Spring?
Those started with an idea, and a Facebook account. Other than my Twitter account, @MacEngelProf, social media is mostly a complete waste of time, but it can be used for something other than displaying what you ate for dinner.
By comparison, however, the good people of Tunisia and Egypt will have had an easier time getting rid of their respective leaders than a few million frustrated Cowboys fans theirs (OK, so the analogy is inappropriately over the top; Jerry's a good dude, unlike, that Hosni Mubarak fella).
As powerful as Randy Galloway is, he can't get this done alone. Neither can any other member of the media, and the vast majority of us were taught not to care either way.
This is about you.
The 2012 NFL season begins this week with the combine in Indianapolis, meaning the Cowboys' general manager will be hard at work evaluating who should be the latest members to join the team to get it to the Super Bowl.
There may not be a greater friend or supplier of wonderful content in recent memory than Jerry Jones. God bless you, friend, for your thick skin.
But you don't care about that. You want wins.
You have spoken, repeatedly, and with language that would make a trucker blush, that you have zero faith in GM Jerry; as long as GM Jerry is in charge of football decisions success as defined by the Dallas Cowboys' previous generations will remain unattainable. If the Cowboys should win, it will be the blind (really rich) squirrel finding the Lombardi Acorn Trophy.
Jerry has repeatedly said he has zero intention of turning over his GM duties to a "football guy." You forgot Jerry played at Arkansas, which makes him more of a football guy than most of us.
Being a GM is why he bought an NFL franchise -- so he could influence the actual game itself and not just the business side. Imagine how much fun that would be?
You, the fan, have screamed you are sick and tired of GM Jerry, however, all of Cowboys nation acts as his greatest enabler because you have to get your fix.
What to do? Because there is not a single greater sports addiction than NFL football, this is going to be very hard with the promise of no results, but the first and loudest step is to quit.
Cold turkey. No patch. There is no non-Cowboyholic beverage to substitute.
No more buying hats, shirts or gear with the Star.
No more buying single-game tickets, and forget the season-ticket package.
This is the only way; yet know if this is the path you choose, there is no promise of the desired results.
The good people of Cincinnati have been trying for the past few years to dump Bengals owner Mike Brown through apathy.
The Bengals were once a solid franchise led by one of the pioneering members of the sport, the late Paul Brown.
When Brown died in 1991, so too did the franchise as it has been led by his son, Mike.
Cowboys fans, you don't know pain until your team is run by Mike Brown.
After two decades of some of the NFL's worst football, Bengals fans spoke. Despite having a team with good young players, being in contention all season and putting a good product on the field, the Bengals ranked last in the NFL in attendance in 2011.
In a football-mad state, they don't care. Mike Brown broke them.
Three times in '11, they had crowds fewer than 42,000. Before their regular-season home finale against the Ravens that had a playoff berth on the line, the Bengals had to create a buy-one, get-one free promotion to season-ticket holders to get a sellout and avoid the embarrassing TV blackout for the locals.
Despite the fans' best intentions, Brown remains in power. You figure, however, when the home pro football team draws fewer fans than a Texas high school playoff game, something will eventually break.
The one glaring difference between the Mike Brown regime and the Jerry Jones era is intent: Mike Brown does not care whereas Jerry very much does.
No one can fault Jerry's intentions and desire to win. No one can fault his ability as the owner and/or team president; the guy sells his brand as well as anyone in his business.
Yet here we sit at the start of 2012 with as disenfranchised of a fan base that has ever existed in his tenure as GM.
You have said you are angry, sick, tired and frustrated. We have seen, however, anger still sells merchandise and tickets. Apathy can't sell anything.
You may not have a lot, but you do have power in this scenario. It is your choice whether you exercise it.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/02/20/3749044/its-time-for-dallas-cowboys-fans.html#storylink=cpy
