Wildcard Weekend: What the Future Holds

From a fans perspective

It’s finally here!

This weekend, twelve teams will battle the wild card rounds to advance to the playoff post-season games! Exciting!

But for some:

• We are hoping for a miracle
• We don’t want a repeat from previous years
• We want to win!

You know who you are!!!

I have been a Cowboys fan for as long as I can remember! But, I did not learn about them until the late 80s. Yes, forty years ago, to be exact.

I was in nursing school, and we formed a football team – flag football, that is. And, because I could throw, I became the quarterback. This was during Troy Aikman’s first season!

The 1989 season was the Dallas Cowboys’ 30th in the National Football League (NFL), their first under the ownership of Jerry Jones, their 19th playing their home games at Texas Stadium and their first season under head coach Jimmy Johnson. It was the team’s first time in franchise history that Tom Landry was not the head coach, as he was fired by Arkansas oil executive Jerry Jones on February 25, 1989. Landry served as Cowboys’ head coach since the team’s inaugural 1960 season and led the team to 5 Super Bowl…