When Dallas last won the Super Bowl:

[El Supremo]

Some curios from that year (1996):

📬 First-class postage stamp: $.32
⛽️ A gallon of gas: $1.23
🎟 Regular season ticket at Texas Stadium: $32
🏠 Median house price in D-FW: $98,653

The most popular things in America the week of that game?

📺 TV show: "ER." (Followed by "Seinfeld" and "Friends." )
🎞 Movie: "Mr. Holland’s Opus."
📚 Books: Fiction: "Intensity" by Dean Koontz. Nonfiction: "The Road Ahead" by Bill Gates.
💻 Website: AOL. (Followed by Webcrawler and Netscape.)

What's happened since then:

🗳️ We’ve had six entire presidential terms.
📶 Modern WiFi was invented.
💰 If you invested $1,000 in Amazon stock, it would be worth $2 million now.
🙃 The Cowboys have had 25 different starting quarterbacks.

https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2021/12/12/dallas-cowboys-last-super-bowl-history-lesson

[SallyHemmings]

1. Bravo!

From a life long Eagles fab!

[El Supremo]

2. And how long has it been since the Cowboys won a road playoff game?

So long ago that 31 players on the Cowboys' 53-man roster weren't even born yet.

The last road playoff victory for the Cowboys was the 1992 NFC Championship Game (played on January 17, 1993) at Candlestick Park.

https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys/2019/01/12/more-than-half-of-the-cowboys-active-roster-wasn-t-alive-the-last-time-dallas-won-a-road-playoff-game/

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4. Jimmy Johnson was the reason for the Cowboys success...

in the '90s — along with the triplets of course — and Jerry Jones fired him.

Jerry Jones is the reason why the Cowboys haven't been back to the Super Bowl in decades.

[Shermann]

6. What Have You Done for Me Lately

That should be the NFL's theme song. Dallas isn't alone with the churn at head coach.

Carolina fan checking in.

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7. You guys have a coach who at least showed some backbone...

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in quickly jettisoning that receiver who got in his face, and the team has shown some promise. Meanwhile, I'm a Raider fan and I'm miserable as our dud of a coach, on his second go-round as a head coach, inherited a playoff team and got the top receiver in the game and one of the top running backs, but has failed miserably and just benched the QB and thus scapegoated him as the reason for the Raiders miserable season.

I wish the owner would churn him.

[Shermann]

9. Yeah I say we give Wilks his shot next year

He's a .500 coach after inheriting a mess. He may be home-grown, but he's solid and respected and the devil we know.

[rubbersole]

10. Jimmy got the best trade for Herschel Walker imaginable.

Turned each position from size to speed. Just like his championship Miami Hurricanes. Jerry wanted the credit he had little to do with. This year will repeat recent history. Too bad, so sad.

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11. True. Jerry needs to hire a good GM,and not his son...

and let the GM do his job, which will be better because Jerry has been GM since the '90s with no results.

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3. And the trend will continue as the Cowboys are going nowhere...

with their interception-prone QB.

[tishaLA]

5. He missed 5 games and still ties for most INTs

It's pretty remarkable.

[phoenix75]

8. Great post 👍

Thanks!

[El Supremo]

12. I'd really like to see people come up with other differences in life since then.

Like: Females could talk normally without sounding like Brittany Spears.

[Ishoutandscream2]

13. Amazing. Cowboy haters are so obsessive

That they follow Dallas stats more than their own team. It never ceases to amaze me the obsession and hatred displayed.

I’ve been watching football since 1968. I saw a lot of heartache, and a lot of great moments. I saw games in the Cotton bowl, Texas Stadium, and that new monstrosity.

I know quite a few Cowboy fans on DU who won’t come out here because they don’t want to put up with all of your bigoted shit. To make a post such as this is such a waste and so acceptable here.

Well, let me end with this. Yes, it’s been a long while since Dallas has won a Super Bowl. But you know what? It’s actually a year older when SAN FRAN WON IT ALL. And also, Dallas is 5-3 in playoff games against San Fran.

I have seen more cockiness about San Fran going to destroy Dallas. And they still might. But in my 61 years in my life, I’ve had a great time and have felt honored to be a fan of the most valued professional franchise in the world. So, go on hating. It just shows an obsession that just shows why Cowboy haters aren’t quite right in the head.

[El Supremo]

14. You don't know me do you?

I was a Cowboys fan from 1963 (the year the Dallas Texans left for KC) until 1989 (when that jerk Arkie fired Tom Landry and Tex Schramm). I haven't been a fan of any NFL team since. I lived in DFW for 19 years. I have never even liked the Denver Broncos in all the 42 years that I've lived here. I loved the Cowboys until Jerral Jones ruined it all. Even Tom Landry (who lived near me) became a Giants fan.

"Bigoted shit?" Wow! I like to make fun of the Cowpies here mainly because I've got a long running feud with madinmarryland, who never lived anywhere near Dallas but adopted them as his team.

[Ishoutandscream2]

15. I've been here for a loooonngggg time

And if you don’t see how bigoted it is, or how fucking obsessive it is, then you aren’t paying attention. Guarantee there would be people here who would applaud if a Dallas Cowboy charter crashed.

If you can’t see the obsessive hatred, then I don’t know what you’re reading.

[El Supremo]

16. Anyone who calls me a bigot gets put on ignore. n/m

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Your Use Of Bigoted....

...diminishes the seriousness of true bigotry.
Rooting against a football team is not bigotry.
Shame on you.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. A year before the last time the Niners won one

Though at least the Niners have made it to the game twice since.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Like My Bears

Haven't won in 36 years, but 3 NFC championship games (won only one) & a superb superbowl, which they also lost.
I'm optimistic that the new president, a true football guy who became a big business football guy, will finally get things on track.