Dallas CowboysAmerican Professional soccer team based in Dallas national football Conference (NFC) of National Football League (NFL). One of the most successful and popular franchises in the NFL, the cowboys won five Super bowls And eight conference championships.
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The cowboys joined the NFL as an expansion team in 1960 under the head coach Tom Landry. After having published a loser record in each of their first five seasons, the Cowboys quickly became one of the best NFL teams, qualifying for the playoffs in 17 of the 18 seasons between 1966 and 1983. The Cowboys joined the Detroit lions by organizing an annual home match on Thanksgiving Day In 1966, a decision that considerably increased the national team exhibition. In 1967, Dallas reached the NFL championship match but lost against the Green bay packers In a competition that presented the temperature on the lowest terrain recorded in the history of the NFL (−13 ° F (−25 ° C)) and has become known as “Ice bowl. “”

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Future quarter of the fame temple Roger Staubach Arrived in 1969 and continued to establish the cowboys as perennial title competitor. With Staubach, the Cowboys won five NFC championships and two Super Bowls (1972 and 1978), and the popular franchise has become known to the nickname “America’s Team”. Other notable players from the Landry era included defensive plasters Bob Lilly And Randy White, wide receiver and former champion of the Olympic sprint Bob HayesCornerback Mel Renfro, and ball carrier Tony Dorsett.
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In the 1970s, the organization of cowboys made its debut cheerleading The team is made up of accomplished professional dancers who wore revealing uniforms. The team has become famous in wider culture As a sex symbols, winning the nickname “America’s Sweethearts” and was presented in many films and reality TV Programs. He was also the subject of criticalBoth to perpetuate an too sexualized ideal of femininity and for the relatively low salary that the dancers receive.
Businessman Jerry Jones Bought the franchise in 1989 and dismissed Landry shortly later, won the anger of the many loyal Cowboys fans who had attached himself to the coach during his 28th birthday with the team. The situation was improved By the fact that the cowboys had a series of excellent drafts at that time, acquiring the future temple of fame Michael Irvin, Troy AikmanAnd Emmitt Smith In successive projects from 1988 to 1990. 1993,, 1994And 1996.
The first part of the next decade has seen the franchise decrease while its stars withdraw or have left for other teams. Although cowboys have sometimes qualified for the playoffs, they did not win an eliminatory match in 1996 in 2010, when the quarter-back Tony Romo– After guiding the cowboys to a division title during the regular season 2009 – led the team to a victory in playoffs on the Philadelphia Eagles. From the 2011 campaign, the Cowboys posted three consecutive seasons of 8 to 8 years in which the team lost against a division rival In his last regular season game to miss a place in the playoffs. In 2014, the Cowboys won 12 games, including the 8 games on the road, becoming the sixth NFL team to complete this feat while playing a 16 -game calendar – and a division title before losing its second eliminatory match in the following qualifying series.
Two years later, a pre-season injury to Romo gave the quarter-Arrière position leaving for recruit Dak Prescottwho has teamed up with the ball carrier and his first -year sensation compatriot Ezekiel Elliott To lead the Cowboys to a NFC 13-3 record, but also to a defeat in the first game of the team’s opening season. The Cowboys failed to qualify for the playoffs in 2017, but returned to it the following season, winning their first match but losing in the Division Channel. The team then missed the playoffs in 2019 and 2020.
In 2021, the Cowboys displayed their first victory record since 2018, finishing 12-5. However, they lost in the jokers in the playoff series against the 49ers of San Francisco. The same story was repeated in the following two seasons: in 2022 and 2023, the cowboys entered high expectations, submitted a 12-5 file, but experienced a disappointing performance in the playoffs. In the 2022 playoff series, the team reached the division tour, where they lost again against the 49ers, and in 2023, the cowboys lost against the outsider Green Bay Packers in the Joker. With this defeat, cowboys have become the first team since the 1970 NFL merger with the American football league To have a sequence of 13 appearances in the playoffs without going to the conference championship match.
