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The Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers have met 22 times since Tampa Bay joined the NFL in 1976. Dallas has won 16 of those 22 games. The Cowboys are 12-2 at home but just 4-4 against the Bucs in Florida. The original orange creamsicle uniforms are no more. Nor is John McKay prowling the sidelines …
When the Carolina Panthers entered the league in 1995 nobody expected them to succeed early. The Dallas Cowboys certainly would have preferred not to have seen them the first three seasons the Panthers played in the NFL. The first two times the teams met the Panthers walked off the field winners – including a stunning 26-17 …
The 15th all-time meeting between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cincinnati Bengals will have more than one storyline. Dallas is 10-4 all-time against Cincinnati – 7-1 at home but just 3-3 in Ohio. The Cowboys haven’t lost to the Bengals in 20 years. It has been 36 years since Cincinnati has come to Dallas and returned …
It isn’t as if the rivalry between the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Commanders needed any extra spice. For what will be a 65th season, the teams have slugged it out. Many times with the divisional title, playoffs and even a trip to the Super Bowl at stake. Back when they were still the Redskins, Washington was …
The Houston Texans arrive at AT&T Stadium in Week 11. It will be the seventh meeting between the two franchises since Houston joined the NFL in 2002. The Cowboys hold a 4-2 advantage in the win column for the series. But the Texans are an up and coming team. After three straight losing seasons, Houston has …
The Dallas Cowboys will not encounter the Philadelphia Eagles in 2024 until the 10th week. They will meet again in Week 17. Last year they played in Week 9 and again in Week 14 and somehow the Cowboys overcame an early division lead by the Eagles. This year they might go into the first matchup fighting …
The rivalry between the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers is one of the most iconic in the NFL. In addition to 31 regular season meetings – dating back to 1960 – the teams have clashed nine times in the playoffs. Six of those games were for the NFC championship. The team that won five …
The Dallas Cowboys could be sitting anywhere in between 5-1 and 1-5 when they reach the seventh week of the 2024 NFL schedule. Whether they are sitting atop the standings (5-1), or wondering what happened (1-5), the week off is timely. They start a crucial stretch of the schedule in the weeks that follow. The 49ers, …
The Dallas Cowboys and Baltimore Ravens will meet for only the seventh time since 2000. That was the first year of the new Baltimore franchise’s existence. Given the Ravens 5-1 record in the previous six meetings, Dallas would likely prefer to see the team fly off somewhere else. There’s also the matter of the Ravens winning …
When the New Orleans Saints arrive at AT&T Stadium in the second week of the season they will do so at a disadvantage historically. The Saints haven’t beaten the Cowboys in Dallas since Dec. 23, 2012. And they had to go into overtime after blowing a late 14-point lead to do it. The Cowboys have won …
When the Dallas Cowboys open the 2024 season – their 65th in the NFL — in Cleveland on Sept. 8th, they will have two streaks in play. First, they will look to win their second straight season-opening game after dropping three in a row from 2020-23. Second, they will look to beat the Browns for the …
The reactions to the New York Giants’ new alternate jersey for 2024 have been – mostly – brutal. And with good reason. They might just be one of the ugliest uniforms in NFL history. And given the way some of the older uniforms looked, that’s saying something. Judge for yourself. I’m not sure who put this …
The Dallas Cowboys front office is working furiously to prepare for the 2024 NFL Draft a short three weeks from today. America’s Team lost starting talent at several positions on the roster after the departure of 13 free agents from their 2023 roster, and it appears free agency isn’t an option to replace them. Free agency …
It’s the morning of August 7, 1983. The place is Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Thunderstorms are passing through the area – including one that lingers over the airport at 9 a.m. Less than 12 hours earlier, the Dallas Cowboys had rallied to beat the Miami Dolphins in a preseason game at Texas Stadium. A last-second touchdown …
Over the weekend news broke of the passing of former Cowboys receiver Golden Richards at the age of 73. The cause of his death — at his home in Murray, Utah – was given as congestive heart failure. Richards’ nephew, Lance Richards, broke the news in a Facebook post on Friday. Richards had been 10 years …
With the kickoff of Super Bowl LVIII set for tomorrow we conclude our recap of the eight Super Bowl games played by the Dallas Cowboys. It would be the second time Dallas would face a previous opponent in the Super Bowl. And the third time overall for the Cowboys to play Pittsburgh for the title. It …
With the kickoff of Super Bowl LVIII two days away we continue our recap of the eight Super Bowl games played by the Dallas Cowboys. It would be the second time the Cowboys faced an opponent in the Super Bowl for the second time. The first came in Super Bowls X and XIII against the Steelers. …
With Super Bowl LVIII now just four days away, we continue our look back at the Dallas Cowboys’ eight Super Bowl appearances. Today we focus on Super Bowl XIII. Played on Jan. 21, 1979, at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, it would be the first time the same two teams met in a Super Bowl. …
Between the inaugural season of 1960 and the 1995 season, the Dallas Cowboys played in 16 NFC Championship games. The first two came in 1966 and 1967, when it was still the NFL Championship game and the winner moved on to play the AFL Champions. Those two losses were both to the Green Bay Packers, who …
With the Dallas Cowboys having taken their final curtain call of the 2023 season it’s time to look ahead. In 2024 the Cowboys will be taking on the four teams from the AFC North again. The last time the division came up in the rotation Dallas finished 1-3. The lone victory was a 30-7 win at …
The Dallas Cowboys come into today’s Wild Card round playoff game with an 8-6 record in the first round all-time. A Wild Card team was added to the playoffs in 1970, after the two leagues merged in 1970. But the additional team simply played in the Divisional round with the three division champions. A Wild Card …
