My dad was a huge Cowboy fan so it's kinda what I grew to know and enjoy.  Separate me from that and it's more "Follow the players, screw the teams."  I'm not big on pro sports because college has so much more passion.

I'm with Eddie on this one. I hate the Cowboys even though my father's a life-long fan. I'm an Atlanta Falcons fan (insert jokes and pity here) and have been since the early 80's. My affection for this team started because I liked the quarterback at the time, Steve Bartkowski, and grew once Jerry Glanville and Deion Sanders arrived much later.

It's been mostly disappointment following this team but it has made the brief moments of glory more enjoyable than you can ever imagine(beating the 15-1 Vikes only to get blasted in Super Bowl XXXIII by the Broncos and being the first team to beat the Packers on their home turf in the playoffs).

You young ones have a wealth of choices. But once upon a time there wasn't much choice at all.

When I was young, there were no upper level pro teams in Texas. Then on the football side the AFL developed, but all we got on TV was Austin's Channel 7 and the Chicago Bears. Arghhhh. Got to see a lot of Jim Brown. A lotta of blood lust football, very boring until the last two minutes before the half. Saw YA Tittle throw 7 TDs in a game (on TV).

Saw the AFL on San Antonio stations when visiting there, but in the 50s there wasn't much. The AFL teams were much more exciting than the NFL teams.

I saw the Houston Colt .45s when they started. We drove down one evening to see them play the Cubs. Ron Santo and Ernie Banks hit back-to-back home runs on consecutive pitches and that was it for the whole damn game. Lots of skeeters. Then we drove back to Central Texas. Would later see the Astros; much better. Also saw Ali-Inoki fight live at Dome; strangest fucking fight ever. Never saw so many puzzled and disappointed people in one place (except for Aggies after '65 21-17 Texas victory, when they all cried, the whole damn stadium full; best sight ever.)

There were the Austin Senators, AA/AAA farm team in the old stadium down by where the Coliseum is, west of the current auditorium. Great old stadium and I watched them play a few times. Once saw the ss and second basemen collide head-to-head on a single up the middle. Knocked both of them out cold. No permanent injury, though; very lucky. San Antonio also had a farm team, the Missions if I remember correctly.

Finally the Cowboys came in and there was pro football. Saw them play in the Cotton Bowl versus Pittsburgh when Bobby Lane was still in uniform and in his last year. He didn't play. Fun game, neither were very good at all. Long before they became America's team. Saw another great collision: with a runner (on a punt I think) going up the sideline, two big linemen came roaring full speed from opposite directions. Lots of people in between; at the last second everyone cleared out and these guys hit without really seeing each other. Knocked both of them out of the game and made the stadium echo. Better than Jim Brown running over CBs.

So, I've liked Dallas since the beginning; thought Tom was ready to go but didn't like how it happened. Murchison was dirty (read J. Edgar Hoover book by Anthony Summers) despite being so lionized by Dallas press, so Jerry was a step up; not much, but some. Loved the great defenses of the earlier era, Too Tall, Too Mean and the Manster. And the offenses of the later ain't-enough-balls-to-go-around era.

Enjoyed Houston when Earl was there. Before that they were really boring; Bud Adams was always a world class asshole. Besides, I don't like Houston, the city, at all. Have a tsunami on me.

Watch VY anytime; enjoy the Titans. Jeff Fisher is a fine coach, but more defensively oriented than offense. Hope they get VY a line, receivers and more D; from recent reports they're doing that.

Texans: when they do something, I'll watch. They ain't, and I ain't gonna.

Basketball: No favs. I like college, Horns and HS.

I think after playing 10 years of  fantasy football, dishing out too much $$$ and not winning as much, I has lessoned my fandom for particular teams.  As crazy for cheering for players sounds, I do it.