… it was the defense that owned every key moment of the Dallas season. They were anchored up front by end Harvey Martin, who would win Defensive Player of the Year. Other All-Pros included tackle Randy White and safeties Charley Waters and Cliff Harris
The 1986 Dallas Cowboys marked the beginning of the end of the Tom Landry era. After a strong start, they were a contender for a second straight NFC East title and a Super Bowl. By season’s end they were sub-.500 and would never contend again in the Landry era. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today. Dallas […]
The 1984 Dallas Cowboys came into the season having made the playoffs each of the previous nine years and 17 of the last 18. That streak came to end when late-season failure against the league’s best ended a year steeped in quarterback controversy. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today. Danny White had been the Dallas starter […]
After three straight NFC Championship Game losses, the 1983 Dallas Cowboys spent much of the season looking they were going on a redemptive Super Bowl run. They ended on a dour note that foreshadowed the end of the Tom Landry era. GREAT 1980s SPORTS MOMENTSStart reading today. An explosive offense keyed Dallas’ success for much of […]
The 1982 Dallas Cowboys represented the end of a small slice in franchise history and a big slice in another way. It was the third straight year they lost the NFC Championship Game. And though it wasn’t the last time head coach Tom Landry would take a team to the playoffs it was the last […]
Tom Landry was a civic icon in Dallas, having been the only head coach the Cowboys had ever known since their inception in 1960. He won two Super Bowls, reached three others and made the franchise a playoff perennial. The 1985 Dallas Cowboys were his last team to reach the postseason.
The first three years of the 1980s saw the Dallas Cowboys make three consecutive NFC Championship Games and come up short all three times. No ending was more painful than that suffered by the 1981 Dallas Cowboys, the unfortunate legacy of an excellent team that won a tough NFC East going away.
The 1980 Dallas Cowboys represented a new era in franchise history. Legendary quarterback Roger Staubach retired after the 1979 season and Danny White took over. The long-time understudy proved he was more than capable of being the leading man, and even though White didn’t get the Cowboys back to the Super Bowl, they remained in the NFL elite.
Roger Staubach came to the Dallas Cowboys in 1969 after winning a Heisman Trophy at Navy and then serving five years of a military commitment. Staubach led the Cowboys to four Super Bowls and won two of them. The 1979 Dallas Cowboys were the last season in this storybook career.
The 1978 Dallas Cowboys were coming off a Super Bowl title and they made a strong running at a repeat bid, with a second half surge and a run through the NFC playoffs. In the end, the push for two in a row came up just short.
Dallas Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones wasn’t going to sit by quietly after the San Francisco 49ers stopped his franchise’s bid for a historic three-peat in 1994. Jones raided the enemy. Cornerback Deion Sanders became a free agent and Jones threw a $35 million signing bonus to get around the salary cap and acquire Deion’s lockdown cover skill…
No team had ever won four postseason games prior to the 1980 NFL season, although was just the third year of the wild-card round, so the opportunities to do so had been pretty limited. It was the 1980 Oakland Raiders that were the first team to do what is now fairly common, as they took the long path to a Super Bowl win.