The Dallas Cowboys are still without an NFC Championship.
For the first thirty years of the Super Bowl era, the Cowboys had been a regular in the game that decided the winner of the Super Bowl. Since then, no.
With their loss on Sunday, Dallas has now gone 28 years without playing in an NFC Championship game.
The most recent time it happened was in 1995. In 1966, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995, it took place.
In the first 30 years of the Super Bowl, the Cowboys made it to the NFL’s version of the playoffs just a bit more often than every other year. This makes the drought even more amazing.
From Super Bowl I to Super Bowl XXX, they played for the NFC Championship sixteen times. The Cowboys played in 16 of the initial 30 games for a chance to go to the Super Bowl, even though they didn’t play for 10 years from 1982 to 1992.
Nothing has been heard since the Cowboys won their second Super Bowl within four years. So bad has it become that the Texans have more playoff wins than the Cowboys since they joined the NFL in 2002 (five).
That being said, the Cowboys may still be America’s Team, but Houston is now Texas’ Team. It’s also hard rather to think that businessman Jerry Jones is well aware of what’s going on as he decides what to do with coordinator Mike McCarthy and maybe who to hire in his place.
It’s been 29 years since the Dallas Cowboys upset Brett Favre as well as the Green Bay Packers 38–27 in the NFC Championship Game. In Super Bowl XXX, they beat Bill Cowher’s Pittsburgh Steelers 27–17.
That was the last time Dallas made it to the conference championship game. It would be hard to find a worse playoff run for any team than the Cowboys’ right now.
Since then, they’ve been knocked out of the playoffs 13 times, most recently by the Packers in a shockingly easy game.
To sum up America’s Team’s playoff pain, here is a number and a fact for each one. In two years as the No. 1 seed for the NFC, Jerry Jones has seen their Dallas Cowboys miss their first playoff game.
The team’s owner and general manager had to deal with the Dez Bryant grab that wasn’t in Green Bay, even though Dallas looked like they were good enough for the long run. After that call, the Cowboys lost a division playoff to the Packers.
Still, in the 28 years since the Cowboys last made it to an NFC championship game, it’s hard to think of a more disappointing playoff loss than Sunday’s 48–32 wild-card loss with Green Bay.
In the divisional stage of the football playoffs on Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys lost 19–12. This is the 27th year in a row that they have not won the Super Bowl. “Just didn’t quite do enough,” coach Mike McCarthy said, upset.
There is always the memory of the Cowboys teams from the 1990s that won three Super Bowls in four years. It’s on the current players to continue living up to those standards, even if they don’t want to.
It’s not so much how the Cowboys’ team is put together that it is how well they play when it means most, like against the 49ers in the divisional phase of the playoffs.
McCarthy has been the coach of both the Cowboys as well as the Green Bay Packers, two of the NFL’s most famous teams. He won the Super Bowl in Green Bay, and a street close to Lambeau Field is named after him.
There are just as many great names on the Packers’ Wall of Fame as there are in the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor. Many players from both teams are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
McCarthy told them near the end of the regular season, “I think it’s something you should look into.” “I always saw it as a source of power.”
I mean, the pride in the walls and everything else around here was built by people who came before us, yet I think we accomplished a great job of recognizing that.
But I’ve always thought of it as a source of power. Take pride in your job, the people you work for, and your progress. I don’t see this as a bad thing at all.
In Super Bowl XXVII, Roger Staubach led the Cowboys to victory. It was 15 years before Troy Aikman led them to victory.
The core of the Cowboys in the 1990s helped the team come back to life after the end of the Tom Landry era as well as the 1-15 season in 1989.
Aikman said, “They’re farther from our era instead of I was from Staubach’s era.” “I don’t think that we felt that weight of what the teams had done in the 1970s.” But we knew about it and respected it.”
“We didn’t get good what of a sudden,” Michael Irvin said. Before, we were poor. Over time, we got better, and for a while, things were great. Because I had to go through both the 3-13 as well as the 1-15…
We were always on time because we know we all began at the same time at the 1-15 and the 3-13. We got better at that. It wasn’t like someone gave it to us. We remember how we made that what it is today.