I've been a Dallas Cowboys fan since roughly 1993, when I watched them maul Buffalo 52-17 in Super Bowl XXVII as a three-year old.
Growing up in the Aikman/Smith/Irvin era, I developed a deep love for the Cowboys as they consistently won games and were in the playoff hunt every year from 1993-1997.
After that, it all began to change thanks to some smart general managing and ownership by one Jerry Jones.
Chan Gailey was brought in before 1998 and limped to a 18-14 record and playoff losses before being fired and thus beginning the Dave Campo era.
This "era" lasted all of three years, in which Dallas went 5-11 in each season.
Finally Jones woke up in 2003 and hired a Super Bowl winning coach in Bill Parcells, who had won a pair of championships with the New York Giants, had gone to a Super Bowl with the Patriots, and woke up the Jets franchise.
He woke Dallas up but eventually grew tired of Jerry's antics and was let go following a 9-7 season in 2006 that saw Dallas lose its wild-card game.
Wade Phillips was then hired and posted a remarkable 13-3 season in 2007 only to lose the divisional round game at home to New York, who went on to win the Super Bowl.
Now Phillips, in his fourth year, is 1-6 and it looks as if the season is thundering towards all-time low levels, circa 1-15 in 1989.
A lot of people are asking, "What's wrong with Dallas? They have all this talent? Why can't they win?"
This blog post will serve as a preview of a series of blog posts forthcoming entitled "It's a trap: The Death Star," that will attempt to be an explanation of why everything is so wrong with the Dallas Cowboys, and what can be done to fix it.
Photo by Brendan Sullivan/ The Dallas Morning News
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