Dallas Cowboys Fans Will Come Back Strong In Time

By kellyanderson on October 8, 2014

The city of Dallas has always been a fan of the front-runner; it’s basically the Los Angeles of the south, but without the mountains or the beautiful beaches.

As long as the Dallas Cowboys are winning, the fans will be there in full force and will buy every seat or jersey there is to be sold. Music and movie stars, as well former presidents, will show up in the VIP seats, cheering as if they have been a fan since Day 1. However, the second they start losing, the city will look elsewhere for its entertainment, and will be very unapologetic about it.

You can just look at the Dallas Mavericks and Texas Rangers for inspiration if you don’t believe me.

I remember when Steve Nash was relatively new to the Mavericks, and they had their “Meet the Team” day for the fans; no one wanted Nash’s autograph or even cared about who he was then, and the few people who were there were rushing to get to Michael Finley because he was the one “star” they had on the team. However, once they started winning, Nash could hardly go anywhere in the city without getting mobbed because he was suddenly the toast of the town.

I also remember being in the half-empty Ballpark in Arlington when the Rangers were the perennial losers in the American League. You could buy a ticket and basically sit anywhere you wanted, because the only reason people went to the games then was to see the opposing team’s players or to take advantage of Dollar Hot Dog Night. Once the team finally started winning, however, every game was sold out and ticket prices skyrocketed. Fans were suddenly rowdy at the games, and they were doing impromptu chants in the crowd to support players they had just learned about the day before.

So it will be with the Cowboys as they continue to rack up wins.

Right now, people are selling their tickets to the home games because the visiting teams’ fans want to experience Jerry World for themselves, and they will pay anything you ask them to in order to do so. In this economy, I can’t blame the locals for pocketing a little extra cash, because season tickets aren’t as cheap as they used to be.

However, the second the fans begin to believe in this team, you can be certain that AT&T Stadium will once again become the place to be seen in the Metroplex; it will be at that point that the complaints will no longer center around the number of opposing team’s fans that are at the game, rather it will soon be about the fact that real fans can no longer get into the stadium due to the number of fair-weather fans that are out there.

Let’s just hope that Jessica Simpson doesn’t hop her way back onto the bandwagon, because once that happens, it will surely spell total disaster for the team and its new-found following. So everyone out there who’s freaking out over who is attending the Cowboys’ home games, please relax – a true home-field advantage will soon be back in Dallas.

Kelly Anderson is a blogger for www.RantSports.com. Follow him on Twitter @bgipp01 or add him to your network on Google.