For me, I don't dislike the team. I love the Cowboys. I've watched them even before their wonderful 1989 season that had them going 1-15. I've been a fan of the team - win OR lose - so long as they were still respectable.
First, a clarification. A team is comprised of two key componenets. The ownership and the players. As long as the ownership is making good decisions, I have no problems rooting for the team. If the players become bad - as the case with Michael Irvin and that crew of misfits, that's just a pitfall of money and the lifestyle and the onus is on the players.
However, if ownership brings in someone with a clear track record of bad behavior, that is NOT a good decision and thus the onus is on the ownership, not the player - as the case with TO.
I dislike TO, but moreso, I despise the management for bringing in this cancer. What they've done and continue to do to the image of the franchise is tragic. It's extremely hard to root for a team when everything that they do and every decision they make goes against everything that I as a fan believe in. Someone like TO I wouldn't spit on if he were on fire and now he's on "my" team. How am I supposed to cheer for the team now? If TO is everything that is wrong with sports, then what does that say about the Cowboys and their decision to have him be the new face of the team?
By supporting the team, I am also supporting the management's decision to allow someone like TO to get away with the b.s. that he does.
In this same spirit, while I dislike the Eagles as part of my Cowboy nature, I respected them as an organization in how they handled the TO situation. I would've been proud to be an Eagles fan then, regardless of our win/loss record. I just can't say the same anymore for the Cowboys.
