Walsh felt that this was because the Cowboys were scheduled to play the Rams the next week in a rare Sunday night game and that showing the highlights of the 49ers ' win would potentially hurt the game's ratings.

Walsh would later write that the 49ers ' two wins over the Rams showed a shift of power in their division, while the wins over the Cowboys showed a shift of power in the conference.

The Rams would upset the Cowboys 34 – 14.

In 2008 the rivalry became more intense when in the last game of the year in which both teams could clinch a playoff spot with a victory, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Cowboys 44 – 6, and clinched a playoff spot, where they would go to lose the NFC Championship game to the Arizona Cardinals.

The two teams met in the first regular season game the Cowboys ever played in 1960 ( a 35 – 28 loss to the Steelers ), the first-ever regular season victory for the expansion Cowboys in 1961, and would later meet in three Super Bowls, all of them closely contested events.

As in the previous season, the Colts began the season undefeated and would go 9 – 0 before losing their first game against the Dallas Cowboys.

However, they would fall victim to the Dallas Cowboys in week 14, going on to end the season with a 3 game losing streak ( Saints became the first team to win a Super Bowl after losing its last three regular season games ).

Soon after, the Giants would lose to the Washington Redskins again, but they would bounce back from this defeat by beating their cross-town rival New York Jets, also knocking the Philadelphia Eagles out of playoff contention, leaving them with a tiebreaker versus the Cowboys.

Turner would go on to install the offense that he coached with the Dallas Cowboys under Jimmy Johnson.

In the ensuing offseason, massive changes occurred to the coaching staff, as offensive coordinator Cam Cameron left to become the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, while defensive coordinator Wade Phillips would fill the head coaching vacancy with the Dallas Cowboys.

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.

( Thomas, upset that the Cowboys would not renegotiate his contract after his excellent rookie year, had stopped talking to the press and to almost everyone on the team ).

Dallas reasoned that Miami would make adjustments to stop the Cowboys ' inside running game which had been so successful in the first half.

Assuming that the Cowboys would be expecting a short pass or a run, Bradshaw decided to try a long pass and told Swann in the huddle to run a deep post pattern.

It was the first Super Bowl with a true heavyweight title-fight feel, given the Steelers ' and Cowboys ' unquestioned status as the two best teams in the NFL, and the honor of the first three-time Super Bowl champion that would go to the winner.

In addition to Coaches Noll and Landry, 14 players would end up being voted into the Hall of Fame: Nine Pittsburgh players: Bradshaw, Harris, Swann, Stallworth, Webster, Greene, Lambert, Ham, and Blount, and five from Dallas: Staubach, Dorsett, White, Wright, and Jackie Smith, who the Cowboys lured out of retirement from the St. Louis Cardinals due to injuries to Cowboy tight ends, most notably, Jay Saldi.

Henderson caused quite a stir before the NFC Championship Game by claiming that the Rams had " no class " and the Cowboys would shut them out.

With all this talent the Cowboys would be considered by many to be one of the deepest and most talented teams to ever take to the gridiron.

If Lett had scored the touchdown, the Cowboys would have topped the previous Super Bowl record of 55 points scored in a game that the 49ers had set three years prior.

Both had different ideas on the future personnel plans for the Cowboys and both wanted equal credit for the team's recent success ( eventually, Johnson would leave the team after the season ).

The Steelers and the Cowboys would also meet again, in Super Bowl XXX.

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.

During his tenure as Cowboys coach, Tom Landry co-hosted his own coach's show with late veteran sportscaster Frank Glieber and later with Brad Sham.

Two plays later, Morrall completed a 47-yard pass to running back Tom Nowatzke at the Cowboys 15-yard line.

Three plays after the turnover, Morton threw a pass that was intercepted by safety Rick Volk and returned 30 yards to the Cowboys 3-yard line ( Morrall later referred to play as the play of the game ).

Twelve plays later, Dallas kicker Mike Clark kicked a 9-yard field goal to give the Cowboys a 3 – 0 lead.

But later in the period, the Cowboys scored another touchdown on a 45-yard pass from Staubach to receiver Butch Johnson, who made a fingertip catch as he fell into the end zone.

Bradshaw later explained that Stallworth was not even the primary receiver on the play: " I was going to Lynn Swann on the post ," he said, " but the Cowboys covered Swann and left Stallworth open.

But 2 plays later, defensive back Larry Brown intercepted Reich's pass at the Dallas 28-yard line to preserve the Cowboys ' 18-point lead at halftime.

Kicker Chris Boniol later scored two field goals in the third quarter, and Troy Aikman completed a 9-yard touchdown pass to Michael Irvin in the final period, giving the Cowboys a commanding 30-3 lead.

All three Super Bowl wins for the Cowboys in the 1990s were broadcast on NBC, who later gained majority control of its affiliate in the Dallas area, KXAS-TV.

Carey's management later denied speculation that he had trained with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys.

Nixon, who hailed from the Southwest, was initially backed by the military industrial defense contractor power-brokers ( the Cowboys ); however, he later wanted to jump ship and return government to the east-coast establishment of Yankees.

In the later King novel Lisey's Story, Lisey often refers to the unbalanced fans her husband's horror novels have created as " Space Cowboys.

The Nugget staff had a close relationship with Sheriff Behan, but his story as quoted in the Nugget the day after the shootout backed up the Earp's version of events, which varied widely from Behan's and the Cowboys ' later court testimony.

Hurst went to nearby Charleston, but the Cowboys showed up two days later without the mules, laughing at Hurst and the Earps.

A month later, the weekend before the shootout, Morgan Earp, concerned about possible trouble with the Cowboys, brought Doc Holliday back from a fiesta celebration in Tucson where Holliday had been gambling.

Cochise County Sheriff Johnny Behan, a friend to the Cowboys, later testified that he first learned of the trouble while he was getting a shave at the barbershop after 1: 30 pm, which is when he had risen after the late-night game.

The nature and location of the wound indicated that it could not have been received if Tom's hands were on his coat lapels as the Cowboys later testified.

He started as a tight end at Louisiana State University and later played for the Dallas Cowboys.

* Jackie Battle, running back for the Dallas Cowboys and later the Kansas City Chiefs

In 2005, Shooter Jennings mentioned him in the title track of his album Put the " O " Back in Country and later mentioned him in 2007 in his song " Concrete Cowboys.