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Cowboys and then
In 1991 the Cowboys replaced offensive coordinator Dave Shula with Norv Turner ; the Cowboys raced to a 6-5 start then defeated the previously-unbeaten Redskins despite injury to Troy Aikman.
Backup Steve Beuerlein took over and the Cowboys and finished 11-5, then defeated the Bears for the Cowboys ' first playoff win since 1982.
Jones then lured Bill Parcells out of retirement to coach the Cowboys.
Romo then threw 3 touchdown passes to Miles Austin as the Cowboys rallied to send the game into overtime.
The two conference title games led to a hot bidding war between the clubs for players ; the Niners signed cornerback Deion Sanders from the Atlanta Falcons and also signed linebacker Ken Norton, Jr. from the Cowboys ; they defeated the Cowboys 21-14 in the 1994 regular season and then hosted the Cowboys in that year's Conference title game, with the Cowboys now coached by Barry Switzer ; the 49ers raced to a 21-0 lead in the first seven minutes of the first quarter and won 38-28 en route to Super Bowl XXIX.
The Cowboys then signed Sanders from the 49ers for 1995 and despite losing to San Francisco 38-20 in the regular season won Super Bowl XXX.
But following this Super Bowl the rivalry cooled as first the Cowboys and then the 49ers went through lengthy performance slumps.
Much speculation centered on Jimmy Johnson, then the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, who was rumored to be feuding with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
Green Bay would then come from behind to defeat the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL championship game for the second year in a row, in one of the most famous games in NFL lore: The Ice Bowl.
The Cowboys then mounted an eleven-play drive to the Miami 1-yard line which featured just one pass and a fake field goal attempt on fourth-and-one at the Miami 20-yard line.
Instead of trying to immediately tie the game on a long passing play, the Steelers ran the ball on the first four plays of their ensuing possession, and then quarterback Terry Bradshaw completed a 32-yard pass to wide receiver Lynn Swann to reach the Cowboys 16-yard line.
After Gerry Mullins recovered Dallas ' onside kick attempt, the Steelers then tried to run out the clock on the next drive with four straight running plays, but the Cowboys defense stopped them on fourth down at their 39-yard line, giving Dallas one more chance to win.
Dallas was then forced to punt, and the Broncos advanced to the Cowboys ' 33-yard line before quarterback Craig Morton was sacked for an 11-yard loss on third down.
Dallas then drove to the 8-yard line, but Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach was sacked by Lyle Alzado for a 10-yard loss on third down, forcing them to settle for a 35-yard Efren Herrera field goal to increase their lead to 10-0.
The Cowboys then drove to the Denver 26-yard line, but Herrera missed wide left from 43 yards out.
On the next play, the Cowboys scored on a 29-yard halfback option play: Staubach pitched the ball to fullback Robert Newhouse, who ran left as if it were a normal run play, but then Newhouse passed the ball to Cowboys receiver Golden Richards for a touchdown.
Bradshaw then attempted a pass to Swann, but the receiver collided with Cowboys defensive back Benny Barnes and fell to the ground as the ball rolled incomplete.

Cowboys and finished
The team plays its home games at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, within the Dallas Fort Worth metropolitan area, which finished construction in time for the 2009 season.
Although the Cowboys finished the 1989 season with a 1 15 record, their worst in almost 30 years, " The Trade " later allowed Dallas to draft a number of impact players to rebuild the team.
The Cowboys finished 12 4 in 1994, but missed the Super Bowl by losing to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game, 38 28.
Star receiver Michael Irvin was suspended by the league for the first five games of 1996 following a drug-related arrest ; he came back after the Cowboys started the season 2-3 ; they finished 10-6 and won the NFC East title, but were eliminated in the divisional round of the playoffs 26-17 by the second-year Carolina Panthers.
The Cowboys finished the season 6 10.
The Giants finished 10 6, and became NFC Champions after defeating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys, and Green Bay Packers in the NFC Playoffs.
The Packers finished the 1966 NFL season at 12-2, and defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 34-27, in the 1966 NFL Championship Game.
Even though the Cowboys finished in second place in the NFC East with a 10-4 record, they qualified for the playoffs as the NFC's wild-card team ( during that time, only one wild card team from each conference entered the playoffs ).
The Cowboys ' " Doomsday Defense " finished the season as the top ranked defense in the league against the run by only allowing 107. 6 yards per game, 2nd overall ( 4009 ), 3rd in points allowed ( 208 ).
Although the Cowboys finished the 1989 season with a 1-15 record, their worst record since the team's inception, the foundations for the Cowboys ' return to glory had been set.
The Cowboys finished 7-9, but Smith won the NFL Rookie of the Year Award and Jimmy Johnson was selected as NFL Coach of the Year.
By the 1991 season, the Cowboys finished with an 11-5 record and made the playoffs for the first time in six years.
In 1992, the Cowboys finished with a 13-3 regular season record, the second best in the league.
The defending Super Bowl XXVII Cowboys finished with a 12-4 regular season record despite key players missing games due to injuries.
The Cowboys then scored on an 8-play, 64-yard drive in which Smith carried the ball on 7 of the 8 plays, gaining all but 3 of the 64 yards himself, and finished the drive with a 15-yard touchdown run to take a 20-13 lead.
In 1995, the Cowboys finished with a 12 4 regular season record, the best in the NFC.
Both players finished their careers as backups, Brown returning to the Cowboys in 1998 and O ' Donnell playing for the Cincinnati Bengals and Tennessee Titans until his retirement in 2003.
After losing two straight games in November ( one to the rival Dallas Cowboys ), they finished off the regular season winning their remaining five games, including dominating wins over playoff teams Denver Broncos, 41 6, and Minnesota Vikings, 38 10.
On December 22, 1996, the Redskins played their final game at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, a victory over the Dallas Cowboys 37 10, and finished their tenure at the stadium with a 173 102 3 record, including 11 1 in the playoffs.
Landry's Cowboys finished the 1988 season 3-13 which earned the No. 1 pick in the draft with the worst record in the NFL, taking his personal record to 270-178-6.
The Cowboys misfortunes continued the following year as they finished with a 1 15 record, the worst in franchise history, while injuries limited Irvin to only six games.

Cowboys and 2006
Other instances include the 2005 Monday Night game against the Washington Redskins when the team inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irving into the Cowboys Ring of Honor, and the 2006 Christmas Day game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Cowboys, who retain rights to all announcers, chose not to renew Laufenberg's contract in 2006 and brought in Waters.
After the Philadelphia Eagles lost to the Dallas Cowboys on Christmas Day 2006, the Saints clinched a first-round playoff bye for the first time in franchise history.
Once in 2004 against the Philadelphia Eagles and three consecutive years ; 2005, 2006, and 2007 against the Dallas Cowboys.
The CLU football practice field used by the Cowboys as well as the CLU Kingsmen football team was replaced by a large sports complex in 2006.
On October 23, 2006, Hank Williams Jr. shouted the catchphrase, live, on top of the " Cowboy star " at the 50-yard line of Texas Stadium before kickoff of the Dallas Cowboys game that evening.
( 2002-2003 Dallas Cowboys, 2003-2004 San Francisco 49ers, 2004 Minnesota Vikings, 2006 Houston Texans, 2007 Chicago Bears )
Duane Charles " Bill " Parcells ( born August 22, 1941 ) is a former American football head coach, most recently with the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2006.
In 2006 the Cowboys signed controversial former Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens.
Maguire worked his last regular season NFL game on January 1, 2006, as the St. Louis Rams and Dallas Cowboys played on ESPN's final Sunday night broadcast.
* Claude Duval is the subject of Michael Scott Smith's song " The Highwayman Waltz "; recorded by folk group The Band of Brothers in their 2006 album " Railroads, Hobos & Cowboys ".
Other film roles include: And I Alone Survived ( 1978 ), Strapless ( 1989 ), The Astronaut's Wife ( 1999 ), Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys ( 2000 ), Lars von Trier's Dogville, the Kevin Bacon-directed Loverboy ( 2005 ) and The Sentinel ( 2006 ).
The 2006 shows included an'all new video light show ' by Sterile Cowboys & Co. ( a. k. a. Nicolas Jenkins ) three screens of heavily overlaid video with the middle screen overlaid by yet another layer of " analog " projections including moiréd overlays and liquid / oil effects performed by " something human " aka Caleigh Fisher a friend from the TOPY years.
Four days later, on March 18, 2006, Jerry Jones announced that the Dallas Cowboys had signed Owens to a 3-year, $ 25 million deal, including a $ 5 million signing bonus, with a $ 5 million first year salary.
Owens returned to the field during the Cowboys ' 2006 season opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
On November 27, 2006, Vanderjagt was released by the Cowboys and replaced by Martín Gramática.
Controversy continued to follow Irvin when during a November 2006 radio interview on the Dan Patrick show, Irvin joked that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo's athletic ability may have been due to African-American heritage, and made references to Romo's maternal relatives being involved with " slave brothers ".
She went on to guest star on two episodes of NBC shows that were broadcast the same night, March 23, 2006: The " Cowboys and Iranians " episode of the comedy Will & Grace, in which she played a wannabe interior designer who, to the confusion of Grace, is a Persian Jew ; and the " Lost in America " episode of the medical drama ER, playing a bereaved mother who loses her daughter in the trauma room.
Jan Hammer produced the original score for Cocaine Cowboys, a 2006 documentary depicting the infamous Miami drug trade scene of the 1980s.
Jerry Jones, the Cowboys ' owner, spent over $ 5 million backing the ballot measure, but also agreed to cover any cost overruns which as of 2006 had already raised the estimated cost of the project to $ 1 billion.
Later, on November 12, 2006, during a Cardinals game versus the Cowboys, a bronze statue was revealed in his honor.
During the Carolina Panthers ' Monday Night Football game against the Buccaneers on November 13, 2006, Johnson became the first player in NFL history to score a touchdown on Monday Night Football with four different teams ( Jets, Buccaneers, Cowboys and Panthers ).
Wagner first won the event in 2006, and repeated as champion in 2011, when he bested Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.
Speakers have included Seattle city council member Nick Licata, actor / activist Woody Harrelson ( 1904 ), travel writer and TV host Rick Steves ( 2007 ), ( 2010 ) former Dallas Cowboys center Mark Stepnoski ( 2003 ), and former chief of the Seattle Police Department Norm Stamper ( 2006 ).

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