The History of the Dallas Cowboys is among the proudest in the NFL. Today, the Cowboys can look back on more than forty seasons, most of them highly successful. Their record of eight appearances in the Super Bowl remains unequalled. It wasn't always like this, however.
In the Cowboys' first season, they finished without a single win. It took six seasons before they could build a team that would enjoy a winning season, but that was only the start of something very special. The streak of twenty consecutive winning seasons that followed on from this is another unequaled record. At this point Dallas was ready to become one of the most successful and most feared names in the NFL.
Right at the start of the Dallas Cowboys' time in the NFL, they hired a coach, Tom Landry, who was to become a Hall of Fame Coach, respected throughout the game as an innovator and thinker. Originally a highly successful defensive coordinator with the New York Giants, Landry had to endure plenty of lean years with the young Cowboys franchise.
It is almost inconceivable in a modern sporting climate where coaches seem to be sacked at the first sign of a losing run, but the Cowboys stuck with Landry throughout the first four years, each with five wins or less. This loyalty was to pay off big time, as the History of The Dallas Cowboys from that point on is littered with almost unbroken success.
A trip to the NFL Championship game in 1966 came out of the blue and was a surprise to most pundits of the time, but it was soon proven to be no fluke. To qualify for the play-offs eight times in a row was at that time a record, but the Cowboys were themselves to surpass this from 1975 onwards. Another run of play off success ended at nine. In their first Super Bowl appearance, in Super Bowl V, the Cowboys were to lose by a solitary field goal, kicked in the dying seconds of the game. Better was to come.
After moving into their new Texas Stadium the following year, the Cowboys got hot. After winning seven games in a row at the end of the regular season, they went all the way through the play-offs to Super Bowl VI, beating the Miami Dolphins 24-3, without conceding a single touchdown.
After Tom Landry had finally departed in 1989, the Cowboys suffered a league-worst 1-15 record. New coach Jimmy Johnson was able to draft players who were to turn the team's fortunes spectacularly on their head, including running back Emmitt Smith and quarterback Troy Aikman.
Only three seasons later, the Cowboys were to win another Super Bowl, which they defended the following year. This extraordinary change from rock bottom to very top in such a short time is probably the proudest achievement in the History of the Dallas Cowboys.
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