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Frustration from Cowboys' fans peaking? · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Here on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone Craig
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  Speaker 1: Way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. Coming up in a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes, we'll visit with Greg Tepper, managing Canser Der
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  Speaker 1: Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine to talk about college and
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  Speaker 1: high school football in the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'll ask him about the Cowboys too, because I think
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  Speaker 1: he's a Cowboys fan, frustrated Cowboys fan as well. On
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  Speaker 1: the first hour of the program, we heard from Jerry Jones,
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  Speaker 1: and we will hear some war from Jerry and also
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  Speaker 1: from Dabosweeny, the head coach of the Clemson Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: So we will will do that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I understand the frustration, but believe me as
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  Speaker 1: a guy who was a fan of the Rams, who's
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  Speaker 1: won fewer Super Bowls than the Cowboys, but obviously the
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  Speaker 1: two they have one have come much more recently than
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys last Super Bowl. So but I still understand
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  Speaker 1: the freshtrasure the frustration that you feel as a Cowboy fan.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, I know people who said that's
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  Speaker 1: a step away from Ruth root for him anymore. My
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  Speaker 1: wife was a Cowboys fan. She grew up in Dallas
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  Speaker 1: for a while, but she's just kind of gotten dumb
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  Speaker 1: to them.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: She's happy for you when I get excited with the
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  Speaker 1: Rams win the game, so she's kind of become a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit of a fan of them. But good win.
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  Speaker 1: Last weekend it was beating the Buffalo bill and they
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  Speaker 1: got a big game Thursday night against forty nine Ers
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  Speaker 1: because if they win, they're still in the thick of
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  Speaker 1: the fight in the NFC West, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: would put the forty nine ers on the shelf. The
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  Speaker 1: Niners are two games back of Sea Out, so at
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  Speaker 1: this late stage, win over San Francisco would pretty much
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  Speaker 1: put them away. And that's almost as satisfying as the
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  Speaker 1: Rams being cond That's that kind of almost falls in
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  Speaker 1: that category of what Sark said about Arkansas fans, you know,
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  Speaker 1: hating Texas more than they like themselves.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like that with the Rams and the forty
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  Speaker 2: nine ers.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if the forty nine ers are slipping up,
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  Speaker 1: them Ram fans happy, perhaps more happy than they should be,
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to rooting for their own team to have success.
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  Speaker 1: But you take what you can get, and for the
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys right now, it's just difficult very very difficult. Cowboy
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  Speaker 1: fans are a n usual study right now because it
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  Speaker 1: really does seem to be divided into three groups. There's
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  Speaker 1: the one group that's with them no matter what. Those
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  Speaker 1: were the fans who were there last night. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the fans who will be the next home game. Those
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  Speaker 1: are the fans who buy those whatever thirty dollars party
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  Speaker 1: passes where you can only stand down one end to
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  Speaker 1: the field or pay four hundred dollars for a decent ticket. There,
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  Speaker 1: that's that group. You don't belong in that group, pray,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Yeah, okay, then belong in that group,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Then there's another group that's on the opposite them,
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  Speaker 1: that's thoroughly disgusted with them, had enough, has proclaimed that
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  Speaker 1: they're done with them. They're switching out teams, going to
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  Speaker 1: find a new favorite team or adopt a different team.
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  Speaker 1: They're never rooting for the Cowboys. Again, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you fall into that group either unless you know Mike
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy gets a lifetime contract, okay, and we know that's.
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  Speaker 2: Not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's the third group, and this is where Cameron is.
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  Speaker 1: This is you know he's not a giver. He's not
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  Speaker 1: a taker. He's kind of a squeezer, you know. He's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of a wheezer, you know, just kind of
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuck in.
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  Speaker 2: The middle there.
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  Speaker 1: Wanting, wanting to root for his favorite team as he
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  Speaker 1: did through so many successful seasons.
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  Speaker 2: But just it.
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  Speaker 1: It's completely insulting to you, as a knowledgeable pro football follower,
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  Speaker 1: to root for the team that continues to collect blow
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  Speaker 1: off one toe with a time with a handgun and said.
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  Speaker 2: That, I think frustrates you as much as anything.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that you're, like, I root for this team
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  Speaker 1: and this team just continues to let me down, and
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  Speaker 1: yet you can't quit him.
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  Speaker 2: You don't give up on them. Oh, I've given up
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  Speaker 2: on them this season.
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  Speaker 1: This season, but not in terms of your total identity
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  Speaker 1: as a fan.
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  Speaker 2: You are still a Cowboys fan right loosely, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, would you call me a fan?
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  Speaker 1: I would only in that you haven't renounced your loyalty
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  Speaker 1: to them. That keeps you tethered to them. That's why.
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  Speaker 1: Because you haven't renounced your loyalty, you haven't said I'm
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  Speaker 1: done with you, I'm never rooting for you again. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go find another team. So, you know, maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: easier for my oldest son because when he's a kid,
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  Speaker 1: he liked the Jaguars and then when they were bad.
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  Speaker 2: He switched to the Cowboys. He said, it's logical. They're
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  Speaker 2: in my home state. On it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he's completely disgusted with him, and he's he's jettis
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  Speaker 1: in them, and he said he and his girlfriend are
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  Speaker 1: going to find a team to root for. A team. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they just proclaimed this a little over a week ago.
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  Speaker 2: Chief sends. He didn't say that.
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  Speaker 1: He said it had to be a team that none
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  Speaker 1: of his family was connected to.
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  Speaker 2: So it can be a Rams fan or a Packers
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  Speaker 2: fan or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But the Chiefs might be a decent thing because he's
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  Speaker 1: a Royals fan because he used to work for the
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  Speaker 1: Royals when he's a minor league video coordinator and so
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  Speaker 1: now maybe, but his favorite baseball team as a kid
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  Speaker 1: was a Tiger, So maybe the Lions factor in there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I wish anyone luck that wants to root for a
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  Speaker 1: team quarterback by Jared Godd But that's okay, that's your deal,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And he's having a good year. It's just
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't that kind of quarterback when he was with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams, and that's why they went. They had and
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  Speaker 1: traded him, so and it worked out. It's worked out,
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  Speaker 1: I would say for both teams because Matthew Stafford had
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  Speaker 1: probably maxed out on what he could give the Lions,
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  Speaker 1: and what he delivered to the Rams was the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl championship, and Goff can possibly deliver that. He couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do it as a Ram, but he might be able
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  Speaker 1: to do it as a Lion. I think the Lions
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  Speaker 1: are as good as about anybody in the NFL, Chiefs included.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see come playoff time. I just want to see
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  Speaker 1: if the Rams can't make it, I'd like to see
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  Speaker 1: the Lions make it, if only because they've never been
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  Speaker 1: in the Super.
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  Speaker 2: Bowl'd be good story.
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  Speaker 1: Only the Lions, the Browns, the Texans, and the Jaguars
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  Speaker 1: have yet to make it to a Super Bowl, so
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  Speaker 1: and the Lions certainly have the best chance of all
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  Speaker 1: them all. Right up next, we'll talk some football of
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  Speaker 1: the high school and collegiate variety in the state of
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  Speaker 1: Texas with Greg Keepper, managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas
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  Speaker 1: Football Magazine. When we continue on Sports Radio Am thirteen
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  Speaker 1: under the zone