What Are Your Favorite Cowboys' Wins?
With the big Pittsburgh game coming up this weekend, I am optimistically looking forward to a game against a top-tier opponent and the potential for a gutsy, statement win for this Cowboys team. We're obviously 3 days and 60 long minutes away from that now, but it's at least exciting to think about the potential for a game and a win like that, because a win over the 49ers or the Seahawks, while necessary, somehow just isn't quite as satisfying.
So as we wait for Pittsburgh, this got me to thinking: what are some of everyone's favorite Cowboys wins since they've been fans? For me, these aren't wins like the two regular season Giants blowouts last year, although those were great wins-- instead, my favorites are games like the victory over the previously unbeaten San Diego Chargers under Parcells, in which we played the PERFECT game against a more talented team and emerged with a huge win and a gametape that was a masterpiece to watch. Or even the Bucs game this year, when I finally got to watch a defense that I could have confidence in step up and put the team on its back while fielding a thoroughly ineffective backup QB against a first place opponent.
There are dozens more, obviously, even in just the past two decades-- what are some of everyone else's favorites, from any era?
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What San Diego game?
The Cowboys did beat the 9-0 Colts in 2006. I guess technically Dallas did beat the undefeated Chargers in 2005, but the Cowboys were undefeated too – it was the season opener!
To me, a “favorite” Cowboy win is one where it’s sort of unexpected, ideally over a rival and which leads in retospect to something even better.
This includes classic victories that I’ve witnessed like 1991 at Washington and at Philadelphia, the 1992 NFC Championship Game, the 2003 MNF game against the Giants and yes, the 2006 Colts game.
If the Cowboys win on Sunday against the Steelers, it could very well end up as one of my favorite Cowboy wins ever.
by DavidH22 on Dec 4, 2008 1:35 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
You're absolutely right
Sorry DavidH— I combined the two wins I was talking about from that season. i think the Colts game was the better win, since the San Diego win could’ve gone either way at the end there, whereas the Colts game just felt like we played a perfect game to beat them and earned the outcome.
Larry Allen benched 700 pounds. That is Leonard Davis times two.
by Tim Wilson on Dec 4, 2008 1:44 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I agree that the Steelers game could be one of those types of wins— that’s why I’m looking forward to it, although I don’t want to set expectations too high.
Larry Allen benched 700 pounds. That is Leonard Davis times two.
by Tim Wilson on Dec 4, 2008 1:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Hopefully this Sunday's game will be one of them
In Romo we Trust
by Terry on Dec 4, 2008 1:41 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
When
Tony Romo wins his 1st playoff game to shut up all the naysayers
by icouldusesomebaseball on Dec 4, 2008 1:55 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
This
last one vs. Washington was great for me ….. everywhere you read said the Boys would lose, and they took care of business.
Any victory over the Niners (Im from Northern Cali)
The Colts victory in 2006
Hell, even the win against the Bills, when Romo threw 5 picks, and Folk nailed the 50 yarder for the win …
and, of course, the 5 title wins.
Peaches is a tool!!
by what_the_crap on Dec 4, 2008 2:00 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
+1 on the Skins...
A. My first Cowboys game LIVE…will never forget Romo’s return and MB3 pounding out the win in the 4th the way they did it to us in TX.
B. It started the skid that IS the Skin’s current position…they lose to B’More and they’re DONESKI!
by AikmanNailedMySis on Dec 5, 2008 10:08 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
1995 NFC Championship Game
My favorite game is the 1995 NFC Championship game played in Dallas against the Green Bay Packers. I live in Wisconsin and Packer hysteria was at an all-time high. I was despised and loathed far and wide for my love of the Dallas Cowboys. I was a younger man back then; louder, a bit more confrontational. The Cowboys have been completely dominant for several years and I let Packer fans know it. I probably deserved some of the loathing.
Anyway, my college buddy who I was living with at the time was a huge football and Packer fan. He had this obnoxious candle that was shaped like a cheese head, and I swear – it was nearly the size of the foam ones they wear to Lambeau! He sits down before the game, places this obnoxious candle on the family room table and lights it. How annoying. The game starts. Each time Dallas takes the lead, I blow out the candle. Green Bay retakes the lead, candle lit. It’s the fourth quarter, the candle is lit and I’m really worried because the Cowboys look vulnerable AND that stupid candle was going to burn for months if Green Bay won. Emmitt Smith to the rescue with two fourth quarter touchdowns and I never have to see that dumb candle again. The Cowboys are heading back to the Super Bowl after blowing that 1994 playoff game against the 49ers. All is well in the world again!
I remember thinking after that 3rd Super Bowl in the 1990’s that ‘we’ll just go on winning Super Bowls for the foreseeable future. Nothing can stop us’. My how quickly it all ended and what a long drought it has been since then.
by Cowboy Louie on Dec 4, 2008 2:19 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
For me
It’s all about winning champions and having missed out on the 70’s Cowboys my favorite wins include the two NFC Championship wins over the 49ers in ’92 &’93 and the Supper Bowl win over the Steelers in ’95.
And of course, how could I forget, 52-17 over the Bills in Super Bowl 27. It was my first time ever seeing them win the Super Bowl and the feeling I had the next day was unforgettable.
by gee-roj on Dec 4, 2008 2:26 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Cowboys at Bills 07
what a comeback, to overcome 5 ints… clutch kicking by nick folk… dropped to my knees when i saw buff called a timeout as folk boots it through, then he does it again! tony curtis came up big recovering that onside kick… jason witten catching that td after he dropped one earlier… what a glorious comeback W
by CowboysFan4Life on Dec 4, 2008 2:49 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Recently
I was lucky enough to attend the MNF game between Buffalo/Dallas last year. That game, I went through such a wide variety of emotions and feelings that if Dallas would have lost, it would easily be the worst loss ever. It was only the second game I’ve ever attended, the first being the Dallas/Giants game in New York from 05 which Dallas lost, and it was the first game my father, a Dallas fan since the 70’s, ever attended. And by god, the feelings I had when Folk made that kick, then the timeout was called, and then he made it anyway, it was unbelievable.
by Zach22 on Dec 4, 2008 3:29 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Dallas 52 Buffalo 17 SB victories are always the best.
A true diehard Cowboys fan since 1975.
"If you don’t take him off the field as a coach, he will just about die out there," Jerry Jones said. "That impacted my decision. It’s a Michael Irvin-type work ethic. That’s what we are talking about with Felix Jones."
- Owner/G.M of the Dallas Cowboys , Jerry Jones
by BoyzRback on Dec 4, 2008 4:33 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
November 19, 2006. At home vs. Colts.
The only game I have ever been to at Texas Stadium.
Everybody booed the hell out of Vanderjagt. DeMarcus Ware smoked Peyton Manning about 30 yards from me. Bill Parcells actually appeased the crowd and clapped it up after the game.
I hugged strangers.
Channeling my inner Pacman.
by Carl Shelton (GloryDayz88) on Dec 4, 2008 6:34 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Then of course the 11 hours of silence
As I rode home with my best friend who is a Colts fan.
Channeling my inner Pacman.
by Carl Shelton (GloryDayz88) on Dec 4, 2008 6:36 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
All of the SB wins
and 92 championship game at Candlestick, that was a thing of beauty.
In Romo we Trust
by Terry on Dec 4, 2008 7:45 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Super Bowl 28.
Saw it with my dad and had seats right next to the Bills tunnel. Some fellow Cowboys fan sitting behind us was even kind enough to cool off the Bills players by dumping his beer on them as they entered the tunnel for halftime.
I will say next to the ‘94-95 NFC Title game, that’s the bleakest feeling I remember having at halftime of any Cowboys game. How in the hell could the same Bills team that the Cowboys had annihilated a year prior (not to mention almost beating them without Emmitt during the regular season) being leading by a TD at halftime? Of course, the answer is Aikman’s head was still obscured by clouds and the rest of the team had probably partied too hard during the single week break between the title game and the Super Bowl. James Washington’s doo rag should be in the Hall Of Fame or at least The Ring Of Honor.
by MadMick on Dec 4, 2008 7:57 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Great story about the tix to the Super Bowl 28 game. Retroactively, knowing the outcome of the game and the place it would take in franchise history, I wonder how much some of us, especially the younger fans, would pay to have been at that game?
Larry Allen benched 700 pounds. That is Leonard Davis times two.
by Tim Wilson on Dec 4, 2008 10:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Absolutely positively no doubt
The last Super Bowl win against the Steelers. I grew up in Steeler country, and all I ever heard about was the 2 losses to the Steelers before I was born. So that payback was as sweet a win as I’ll ever experience in my life as a fan of sports.
Although I thought I was going to die that day. I was in college, only Cowboy fan in a dorm full of Steeler fans. And if anyone is from around there, drunk Steeler fans can get a little rowdy, especially when they lose…
by mhuff13 on Dec 4, 2008 8:20 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
I'll always remember the TB game this year.
In part because it was the second loudest crowd I had heard at Texas Stadium (I’ve gone to a game the past 5 years or so). In part because that win keeps looking better as the season plays out. But mainly because it was my last game at Texas Stadium.
by GhettoBear04 on Dec 4, 2008 11:35 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Dallas 35-34 over Washington
in what I consider truly Staubach’s last game. (I erased any memory of the playoff game that followed.)
Roger’s last game.
Beat THE division rival to make the playoffs and knock them out of it!
Back and forth with huge lead changes. One of the greatest af ALL NFL games.
You yougun’s need to look that one up, the Boys had to have 2 amazing comebacks to win.
by Realist Larry on Dec 5, 2008 12:44 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
now That was a great game Larry...
I loved all the classic battles with Washington…..
A true diehard Cowboys fan since 1975.
"If you don’t take him off the field as a coach, he will just about die out there," Jerry Jones said. "That impacted my decision. It’s a Michael Irvin-type work ethic. That’s what we are talking about with Felix Jones."
- Owner/G.M of the Dallas Cowboys , Jerry Jones
by BoyzRback on Dec 5, 2008 7:12 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
And, beating the Eagles after they had smoked us on MNFB earlier
that year. They were a toughass team, and were better earlier in the year.
Most considered their defense the best in the league.
But the young Cowboys were improving game-by-game, and beating the Eagles 20-10 was, in my mind, the beginning of the SB Dynasty years. And the message that the #1 defense was not in Philly.
When we met them in the playoffs later that year, it was anticlimatic. The Boys had surpassed them in every phase and brushed them off 34-10.
by Realist Larry on Dec 5, 2008 12:49 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
My favorite was the colts game from 06, because I won money on that game from
a loud mouth cowboy hater and his broncos lost, and the other team he follows, the texans lost too. Man that win made the thanksgiving holiday I spent on that oil rig a piece of cake.
Ignore the Mainstream Media, EMBRACE THE HATE!!!!
by cowboy78 on Dec 5, 2008 1:01 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

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