The Cowboys then finished an up-and-down 2006 season with a 9 – 7 record and a playoff appearance, but after a last second loss in the wild-card game against the Seattle Seahawks, Parcells retired and was succeeded by Wade Phillips.

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.

They are third in appearances in a Super Bowl with seven ( the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys each have 8 ), and have the most appearances in the last 25 years.

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 ).

But after head coach Tom Landry settled on Staubach, the Cowboys won their last seven regular season games to finish with an 11 – 3 record.

The Cowboys lead didn ’ t last long.

Meanwhile, the 49ers went on to defeat the New York Giants, 38-24, and then narrowly beat the Dallas Cowboys, 28-27, on a last minute touchdown pass known as The Catch.

After giving up 31 points in their opening day regular season loss to the Dallas Cowboys, the Giants had not given up more than 20 points in a game until the last game of the season, in a 55 – 24 win over the Green Bay Packers.

The Cowboys entered the 1995 regular season attempting to win 3 out of the last 4 Super Bowls.

Cowboys took full advantage of their last brush with civilization before the long drive on the Chisholm Trail from Fort Worth up north to Kansas.

The Earps and Holliday walked west, down the south side of Fremont Street, out of visual range of the Cowboys, toward the Cowboys ' last reported location.

He would retire in 1988 ( coincidentally, also the last season on the sidelines for original Cowboys coach Tom Landry ), having played 209 games in 14 seasons, only missing one game during that span.

This was four days before the Vikings played the Dallas Cowboys in the last regular-season game of the 1982 NFL season.

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.

This was the fourth Super Bowl to be decided on a field goal in the final seconds ( Super Bowl V was won on a last second kick by the Baltimore Colts ' Jim O ' Brien to defeat the Dallas Cowboys, Super Bowl XXV had the Buffalo Bills ' Scott Norwood miss his field goal chance against the New York Giants, and in Super Bowl XXXVI Vinatieri made his to defeat the St. Louis Rams ).

In the Cowboys second game of the season, the last Monday Night game at Texas Stadium, Owens passed Cris Carter to move to second in touchdowns behind former teammate Jerry Rice.

He was the last first-round draft pick made by the Cowboys under the leadership of long-time general manager Tex Schramm, player personnel director Gil Brandt, and coach Tom Landry ( Schramm predicted that Irvin would accelerate the Cowboys ' " return to the living ").

The Redskins ' last win at RFK was a 37 – 10 victory over the Cowboys on December 22, 1996.

* December 22, 1996 – The Redskins win their last game in the stadium, defeating their arch-rivals, the Dallas Cowboys, 37 – 10.

The last game he coached at Fedex Field in Washington was on December 30, 2007 ; the Redskins had a key victory over the Dallas Cowboys to send Joe Gibbs and the Redskins to the playoffs.

In their first season, the Cowboys were not expected to ice a strong team, having inherited a franchise that finished in a last place tie with the Oilers the previous year.

1998 also saw the Cowboys record their largest loss to date, being defeated 62 – 0 by the North Sydney Bears in the last round of the home and away season.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

Waters injured his left knee in the last game of the 1960 season.

I never did miss one in a playoff game -- I kicked about 20 in the five playoff games my last two years ''.

The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.

Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.

Alumni played its last game in 1911 and was definitely dissolved on April 24, 1913.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.

It would be his last game ; during spring training the following year he developed glaucoma, which ended his career.

It was not unusual for a single baseball to last an entire game.

It turned out that the Cubs and Giants ended the season tied for first place, so the game was indeed replayed, and the Cubs won the game, the pennant, and subsequently the World Series ( the last Cubs Series victory to date, as it turns out ).

* Book on 2001 WS is " the last word on the inside game of baseball "

When the last hand has finished being played, the dealer reveals the hole card, and stands or draws further cards according to the rules of the game for dealer drawing.

However, United maintained their aggregate lead to reach the last four and were in jubilant mood as they left to catch their flight home, thinking of an important League game against Wolves at the weekend.

His last game was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April 1973, and before the game the BBC cameras for Match of the Day captured the Chelsea chairman handing Charlton a commemorative cigarette case.

But with their last move, they have to open the next ( and larger ) chain, and the novice loses the game.

For his last game, the theme from Pearl Harbor, " There You'll Be " by Faith Hill, was featured.

The theme from Field of Dreams was played at the last game at Memorial Stadium in 1991, and the song " Magic to Do " from the stage musical Pippin was used that season to commemorate " Orioles Magic " on 33rd Street.

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.

The game is organised by the Rotary club of Bodmin and was last played in 2010.

On the last pitch, the overconfident Casey strikes out, ending the game and sending the crowd home unhappy.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).