Cactus Jack wrote:bluejerseyjinx wrote:T.V was pretty much a new thing growing up in the 60's. I remember our first T.V. when I was just 6 years old. Black and white only back then. In 1966 we had our first Super bowl. It was something new to all of us. Maybe they Cowboys were just a part of what was new and special back then. Cowboys started out with nothing in their first year. No draft for us. But the point is we became good at the right time in history. Played in out first 2 NFL championship in 1966 against the Packers who were the team of that decade and we took off from there. 3 years later and we had the AFL-NFL merger and went to back to back Super Bowls in the first two years. Went to another 3 more Super bowls before the decade came to an end but just fell short to the Steelers who became the team of that decade after Super Bowl XIII. For 14years the Cowboys were always in the thick of things every year.
Hank Schramm was a grand master of marketing everything Cowboys back then. First and only team that had cheerleaders. They were called the Rockets and were almost as famous as the team itself. Not sure what the T.V. deal was back then, maybe Otis can elaborate more on that as he is a bit older than I am. But growing up as a kid, I always remember the Cowboys always being the double header game almost every week. Back then CBS had the NFC so the Giants were always the local team and the Cowboys were always the double header game. All we had before cable came along was this CBS station and a Canadian on our T.V.'s. Guess that's why we still to this day have so many Cowboy and giants fans in the State Of Maine. Even when we eventually got cable in the mid-70's not much change except NBC who covered the AFC back then also carried their share of Cowboy games for the weekends they had double headers. Can't speak for other states, but the giants and Patriots sucked so bad back them the Cowboy's became everyone's darlings outside the haters. The baby boomer generation just loved the Cowboys. What can I say?
Bjj, not everyone "loved" the Cowboys.
The Raiders we're kind of THE TEAM out West back in those days. My dad was a Raider fan before Seattle was given a team. Which was not very uncommon. Which is why there are a ton of Raiders fans all along the West Coast.
That's true. Raiders were very popular. But you are talking west coast. I'm talking America. It wasn't that close otherwise Oakland would have been playing on Thanksgiving all those years.
