The Parcells Era begins in 2003
With the last of the Triplets gone with the departure of Emmitt Smith to the Cardinals, the era of Bill Parcells began in Dallas in 2003. The Cowboys’ sixth head coach quickly
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Emmitt Smith goes out on top in 2002
Despite the previous two seasons, the Cowboys came into the 2002 season with some hope of turning things around. They actually had their best draft since the departure of Jimmy Johnson nearly
Cowboys’ began life without Troy Aikman in 2001
With the departure of both Troy Aikman (retirement) and Randall Cunningham (free agency), the Cowboys needed a quarterback. But Jerry Jones had traded the team’s first round pick of the 2001 Draft
Troy Aikman deserved a better career finale in 2000
For the first 29 seasons of existence in the NFL, the Dallas Cowboys had one head coach. Over the next 11 seasons Dallas would hire and then fire three head coaches. With
The Cowboys closed out the century with a mediocre 1999 campaign
The 40th season – and the final one of the 20th Century – was less than stellar for the Cowboys. In an attempt to ignite the passing game Dallas acquired free agent
A season of hits, one big miss, for the 1998 Cowboys
With the departure of Barry Switzer the Cowboys turned to Chan Gailey to become the fourth head coach in team history. Gailey brought back a focus on the running game and the
Bitter swan song for Barry Switzer in 1997
The Cowboys streak of consecutive NFC Championship game appearance had ended at four in 1996. The team came into the 1997 season looking to get back on top. Instead, the whole thing
Crumbling Cowboys somehow made the 1996 playoffs
The Cowboys title defense in 1996 was literally doomed before it even started. Two years of poor drafts by Jerry Jones left the Cowboys without depth. The 1996 draft was better than
Barry Switzer gets a ring in 1995 with Jimmy Johnson’s players
Still stinging from letting a three-peat slip away the Cowboys went to work on getting back to the Super Bowl in 1995. If owner Jerry Jones was hoping to show the world
The decline of the Cowboys’ empire began in 1994
After a second-straight Super Bowl win over Buffalo in January, the Cowboys were early favorites to make it three in a row at the end of the 1994 season. Barring catastrophic injuries,
1993 was turmoil sandwiched around another championship
To call the 14 months between Dallas’ victory over the Bills in Super Bowl XXVII and the firing of Jimmy Johnson as tumultuous would be an understatement. Over that period of time,
Cowboys rode four winning streaks to a Super Bowl win in 1992
Just call 1992 the year of the three- and five-game win streaks in Dallas. The Cowboys would win three games, lose a game, then win five straight twice during the season. The
The Cowboys reaped a bountiful harvest in 1991
The Herschel Walker trade paid off big in 1991 and continued to do so for several years to come. With the assets gained from that transaction, along with a few additional moves,
Dallas kicked off 1990 with a Hall of Fame draft pick
By virtue of a league-worst 1-15 record in 1989, the Dallas Cowboys should have had the No. 1 pick in the 1990 NFL Draft. They didn’t because they gave up that pick
Jerry Jones takes command as Cowboys hit rock bottom in 1989
If Jerry Jones’ had hoped to ride into town and be proclaimed ‘savior of the Dallas Cowboys’ he would be sorely disappointed. It wasn’t that changes didn’t need to be made. And
The curtain falls on several Cowboys in 1988
After enduring consecutive losing seasons the Cowboys were looking to turn things around in 1988. Tony Dorsett was traded to Denver during the offseason. Dallas even had a productive draft for a
A bitter rivalry is born from the 1987 players’ strike
For the second time in the 1980s, the NFL players went out on strike after the first two games of the 1987 season. But unlike the 1982 strike, which saw seven weeks
1 giant sack changed the trajectory of the 1986 season
The Cowboys entered the 1986 with high hopes and with very good reason. They would have the dynamic running back duo of Tony Dorsett and Herschel Walker to pound the football. They
1 last hurrah for Tom Landry, Cowboys in 1985
The Cowboys came off of missing the playoffs in 1984 with an otherwise uneventful draft in the spring of 1985. They did net a starting guard in Crawford Ker in the third
A quarterback controversy arises in 1984
The 1984 season was the Cowboys’ silver anniversary in the NFL. They had much to celebrate about their past. There would be very little to celebrate about the future for the next
1 play in 1983 epitomized a decade of frustration in Dallas
“No, Danny, no!” If you were watching the Cowboys play on television on Dec. 11, 1983, as I was, you already know what happened. For those of you that weren’t, here’s the