After three decades of stumbling worse than the Cowboys, Washington and QB Jayden Daniels have hit the big time.
With the Commanders advancing in the postseason, the Cowboys now have the longest NFC Championship Game drought in NFL history.
It's been nearly three decades since the Cowboys last made the NFC championship game. They now have the longest title game drought in the conference.
The Cowboys also have three former players in the AFC Championship, all playing for the Buffalo Bills. Those players are Amari Cooper, Connor McGovern, and Jordan Phillips. The Cowboys themselves have not made it to the NFC Championship since 1995, marking the longest drought in the NFC.
The Commanders punched their ticket to the NFL's version of the Final Four, their first appearance there since the 1991 season.
With Saturday’s win over the Detroit Lions, the Washington Commanders snapped the NFC’s longest active championship game drought and passed that designation to another team that hasn’t reached the NFL’s final four since the ’90s, the Dallas Cowboys.
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The Dallas Cowboys now own the longest NFC Championship drought after the Washington Commanders punched their ticket to the conference title game on Saturday night.
The NFC Championship Game will feature two teams from the NFC East and neither of them is the Dallas Cowboys for the 30th year.
Now that the Commanders have reached this playoff feat, a new team takes the unfortunate streak since last making an NFC championship, and it happens to be the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys haven't reached the conference title game since the 1995 season. Every other NFC team has reached the title game since 1996.
The Dallas Cowboys now have the longest NFC Championship drought in the league. Dallas has not been to the conference championship since 1996. Washington's last appearance was in 1991. DALLAS - The Washington Commanders win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday moved the Dallas Cowboys into a title no team wants to have.