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  • Dallas Cowboys 1960

    Dallas Cowboys Team Formation

    The Dallas Cowboys were the NFL’s first modern-era expansion team. The NFL was late in awarding a franchise to Dallas; after Lamar Hunt was rebuffed in his efforts to acquire an NFL franchise for Dallas, he became part of a group of owners that formed the American Football League with Hunt’s AFL franchise in Dallas known as the Texans (later ...
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  • Dallas-Cowboys-Super-Bowl-Championship-1972

    Super Bowl VI Winner 1971

    Super Bowl VI – 1971 Super Bowl VI was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami Dolphins to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1971 season. The Cowboys defeated the Dolphins by the score of 24–3, to win their first Super Bowl. The ...
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  • Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl 1977

    Super Bowl XII Winner 1977

    Super Bowl XII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Denver Broncos to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1977 season. The Cowboys defeated the Broncos 27–10 to win their second Super Bowl. The game was played on January 15, 1978, at the ...
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  • Jerry Jones - Dallas Cowboys 1989

    Jerry Jones New Owner

    On February 25, 1989, Jones purchased the Cowboys from H.R. “Bum” Bright for $140 million. Soon after the purchase, he fired longtime coach Tom Landry, to that point the only coach in the team’s history, in favor of his old teammate at Arkansas, Jimmy Johnson. A few months later, he fired longtime general manager Tex Schramm and assumed complete control ...
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  • Super Bowl XXVII Dallas Cowboys 1992

    Super Bowl XXVII Winner 1992

    Super Bowl XXVII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1992 season. The Cowboys defeated the Bills by the score of 52–17, winning their third Super Bowl in team history, and their first one ...
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  • Super-Bowl- Cowboys 1993

    Super Bowl XXVIII Winner 1993

    Super Bowl XXVIII was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Buffalo Bills to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1993 season. The Cowboys defeated the Bills by the score of 30–13, winning their fourth Super Bowl in team history, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers ...
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  • Super Bowl XXX Cowboys 1995

    Super Bowl XXX Winner 1995

    Super Bowl XXX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Dallas Cowboys and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Pittsburgh Steelers to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1995 season. The Cowboys defeated the Steelers by the score of 27–17. The game was played on January 28, 1996, at Sun Devil Stadium ...
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  • AT&T Stadium

    AT&T Stadium Opens

    AT&T Stadium, previously named Cowboys Stadium, is a domed stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington, Texas. After failed negotiations to build a new stadium on the site of the Cotton Bowl, Jerry Jones along with the city of Arlington, Texas a suburb of Fort Worth, funded the stadium at a cost of $1.3 billion. The stadium is located in ...
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The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. The team is headquartered in Frisco, Texas, and plays its home games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, which opened for the 2009 season. The stadium took its current name prior to the 2013 season. The Cowboys joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1960. The team's national following might best be represented by its NFL record of consecutive sell-outs. The Cowboys' streak of 190 consecutive sold-out regular and post-season games (home and away) began in 2002. The franchise shares the record for most Super Bowl appearances with the Pittsburgh Steelers, New England Patriots, and the Denver Broncos, corresponding to most NFC championships. The Cowboys won five of those Super Bowl appearances, tying them with their NFC rivals, the San Francisco 49ers, both are second to Pittsburgh's record six Super Bowl championships. The Cowboys are the only NFL team to record 20 straight winning seasons (1966 - 1985), in which they only missed the playoffs twice (1974 and 1984), an NFL record that remains unchallenged.





Established
1960

City
Dallas

League History
1960 - Present / National Football League

Team History
1960 - Present / Dallas Cowboys

Nickname
Cowboys - When the expansion NFL team in Dallas named their head coach, the headline in the next morning’s Dallas Morning News read: “Rangers Hire Tom Landry.” But after some thought, the front office decided there would be confusion with an existing minor league baseball team (the Dallas Rangers). In the initial months following the its formation, the Dallas team was known as the “Steers.” At the same time, a baseball team operated in Dallas under that name, but was scheduled to fold before the 1960 football season. Cowboys was actually only the third choice. The original name was actually “Steers” but Tex Schramm said you don’t want your whole football team being castrated.” However, when the baseball team decided to play one more season, Clint Murchison Jr. and Bedford Wynne, two owners of the new NFL team, selected the name of Cowboys to avoid confusion.

Championship
Super Bowl 5
1996, 1994, 1993, 1978, 1972

Stadium
2013 - Present / AT&T Stadium
2009 - 2012 / Cowboys Stadium
1971 - 2008 / Texas Stadium
1960 - 1971 / Cotton Bowl

Owner
1989 - Present / Jerry Jones
1984 - 1989 / Bum Bright
1960 - 1984 / Clint Murchison

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