Why don’t Dallas Cowboys fans want the team to wear blue jerseys in the season opener?

The Dallas Cowboys could wear their blue uniforms when they play the Cleveland Browns in their season opener on Sept. 8.

Some fans are hoping they won’t wear that color due to a superstition, but what is the origin?

Some have connected the tradition to a heartbreaking playoff losses. The first option was when the 1970 Dallas Cowboys lost to the Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl and the second was the team’s 1980 NFC Championship game loss against the Philadelphia Eagles.

There are conflicting reasons why Cowboys fans are wary about the color, but Pro Football Hall of Famer Gil Brandt explained his reasoning in a 2019 article in the Associated Press.

Brandt said after the team lost in 1976 to, then NFC East rival, the St Louis Cardinals after being forced to wear blue. The following season Brandt said a billboard near the team hotel proclaimed they would be cursed by wearing blue once again and that’s where the superstition started.

While the exact root seems unclear the Cowboys’ last playoff game wearing the blue was an emphatic 31-14 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 2022 NFL season which would be the last game played by NFL legend Tom Brady and perhaps exercised the blue jersey curse.