The following is offered as a piece of self-care advice.
It’s not easy being a Cowboys fan. Sure, our numbers are legion and our team is popular. But we’re 25 seasons removed from a Super Bowl run and relying on Triplets anecdotes and Landry-Era highlights gets old. We want, desperately want, some title chops of our own.
That hunger, and the quirky nature of this season’s opener, call for an exercise in healthy fandom. We need to prepare our nervous systems for the campaign at hand as much as Dak Prescott needs to tend to his shoulder and the trainers need to mind the Covid protocols.
With that in mind, let us go through some mental stretches, and root in a way that will leave us ready for 17 games, rather than gutted and bitter if the result doesn’t go our way Thursday night in Tampa.