What is your favorite Cowboys games that are not Super Bowls?

[gjkoeppen]

Mine are a pair of consecutive games. Back in 2009 week 17 in Cowboys Stadium the Cowboys had to win the game to win the NFC East title, lose and they were the #6 seed. The eagles had to win to win the NFC East title and be the #2 seed and get a bye or lose and be the #6 seed. The Cowboys shut them out winning 24-0. The next week in Cowboys stadium again the Cowboys won again 34-14.

Beating the eagles two week in a row can't get much better than that except Super Bowl wins.

 

[BigTimeBlues]

Two of my all-time favorites of recent memory, ironically enough, were both victories over the Saints.

The first one, they were 12(?)-0, coming to Dallas, and the Cowboys had "no chance" of upsetting the Saints. Spoiler alert, they did.

The second one was a few years back, Saints visiting again, and Dallas came out victorious to the tune of a 13-10 win.

I really enjoyed the Denver/Dallas Manning/Romo shootout, just didn't care for the outcome.

 

[ClappingCarrot]

The Manning/Romo shootout would've been perfect had Romo been able to win the game.

I did love the trouncing of the Colts in 2014 to clinch the playoffs, and even more so watching them take the Seahawks to the woodshed the same season. Rumor has it that Richard Sherman was rooting hard for the Packers to beat us in the playoffs because those guys did not want to play us again. We were just so physical that season.

 

[cowboyec]

☆'80 NFC Div Round...Danny and the Miracle...comeback win over falcons on the road...30-27.
☆Sept 5,1983...MNF comeback win over Commanders @RFK 31-30.
☆'85...28-21 win over the giants @Texas Stadium to win the East.
☆'86...MNF wk1...Herschel Walker debut...win over giants 31-28.
☆'87...Nov '87...23-17OT win over new england on Herschel's 60+ yd TD.
☆'88...Dec 11...Coach Landry's last win...up-set road victory over washington 24-17

 

[Afigueroa22]

The overtime win against the 9ers when Romo came back in after suffering a punctured lung. Mcnabb's air guitar loss. The high scoring game against Manning's Broncos. Handing the Saint's their first loss in '09. The Colts game in '14, pretty much that whole regular season. Same goes for '16.

 

[JayNovacek84]

NFC Championship game @ 49ers - 92 season.
Everyone expected the 49ers to beat us, Jimmy Johnson and the Cowboys however had other ideas.
A classic sporting moment when one team handed the torch to another and off they ran towards 3 Super Bowls in 4 years.

 

[sean10mm]

Romo's punctured lung OT win in '14 is the best recent one. Anybody saying Romo was soft could GTMFO after that one.

Beating the Eagles at the end of the regular season, and then doing it again in the playoffs in 09.

 

[DanA]

I quite enjoyed the Giants game where our O-line held up for about 12 seconds. I think that's also the game that Romo dropped the snap, picked it up and threw a game winning touchdown to Witten. I'm terrible at remember games though. Think it was 2014.

First game I went to live was against the Giants where Cowboys kicked a field goal in OT to win. Think it was in the early 90's, last game of the regular season.

 

[TexasHillbilly]

I am looking into the future.

2020 and/or 2021 champs. I'll take em both. I do love me some Cowboys.

 

[dckid]

Mine are a pair of consecutive games. Back in 2009 week 17 in Cowboys Stadium the Cowboys had to win the game to win the NFC East title, lose and they were the #6 seed. The eagles had to win to win the NFC East title and be the #2 seed and get a bye or lose and be the #6 seed. The Cowboys shut them out winning 24-0. The next week in Cowboys stadium again the Cowboys won again 34-14.

Beating the eagles two week in a row can't get much better than that except Super Bowl wins.

The 1991 Cowboys beating the undefeated Skins... Aikman to Harper at the end of the half. The bittersweet moment was Aikman getting injured.
The positive was that Buerlein was a more than capable backup, we actually beat Chicago in a playoff game before losing to the Lions in the divisional round.
1992- opening game of the season on MNF, defeating the champs and putting the NFC East on notice that we were the team to beat
BTW, 1992 had a lot of signature wins. 13-3 will do that for you.
Beating the Eagles (2nd meeting) and Emmit running over 100 yards ending a very very long streak where teams had not been able to rush for over that 100 yard mark against them.
Beating the Lions in 1992, revenge for the playoff loss
Beating the Falcons on MNF, Deion could not tackle Emmit. Emmit had a couple Barry Sanders type moves, escaping from 4 to 5 would be tacklers
Beating the Eagles in the Divisional round... Kmart takes a punt for a TD.
Going to candlestick in 1992, man that game is etched in my memory as the game that showed we were the best team in the league. That game showed the players that they were unbeatable. That was an amazing 49 team. They still had Rice, Taylor ,Jones. Great defense.
They had the candlestick crowd, the terrible field. We methodically wore them down. Jimmy in 1992 instead of going for a field goal on 4th and 1 deep in niner territory decided to run Emmit and we didn't get the first down. The niners drove down and cut the lead to 24-20... It was all setup for the first down pass with around 4 minutes to play.. Jimmy didn't want to run clock, he went for the win. Pass on first to Harper, that beautiful slant pass and he went for 70 yards. Wow... wow.. I still get goosebumps and I am a 40 year old man.

That is just the 1992 season

 

[JohnsKey19]

92 NFCC @ SF

 

[Doomsday77]

Mine are a pair of consecutive games. Back in 2009 week 17 in Cowboys Stadium the Cowboys had to win the game to win the NFC East title, lose and they were the #6 seed. The eagles had to win to win the NFC East title and be the #2 seed and get a bye or lose and be the #6 seed. The Cowboys shut them out winning 24-0. The next week in Cowboys stadium again the Cowboys won again 34-14.

Beating the eagles two week in a row can't get much better than that except Super Bowl wins.

Just watched it last night...'07 on the road against the Bills. Romo throws 5 picks and fumbles once, 2 of those int's get returned for a TD and the Bills run a kick off back for a TD. Nick Folk comes in with 2 seconds to go and makes not 1 but 2 FG's from 52 yds for a walk-off win. Bills coach had called a T.O. on the first one forcing him to make it again!! Romo...definitely a sign of things to come. He could make you go crazy one second and then win the game.

 

[Flamma]

Way too many games. I'll keep it to non playoff wins.

2016 Win against the Eagles in our first meeting
2014 Win against the Eagles for the Division
1993 Win against the Giants in the last game for the Division. (This win had me pumped up bigtime)
1985 win late in the season against the Giants for the division. If they weren't the over the hill gang 2.0 I don't know what was. The Giants were by far the superior team that year and us taking it from them made me very happy.
1983 week 1 comeback against the Commanders after being down 23-3 at half. In Washington!

 

[jazzcat22]

Way too many to list actually. Off the top of my head.

79, Roger's come from behind twice (down 2 TDs, and down 17 points) to beat the Commanders winning the NFCE and eliminating the Commanders. It was winner take all, loser stays home.

Emmitt's one shoulder game against the Giants in 93, allowing Dallas to get the much need HFA for the SB run.

Possibly a forgotten game, 1995. Cowboys were flying to Arizona, but they were down a bit. They needed to win and SF to lose to get HFA for the playoffs. Thought they had no chance of getting as SF played a patsy team and should have won, I think, need to look it up. I believe it was a Monday night game, so they were flying on a Sunday, Christmas was Monday. When word got to them during the fight that SF lost, it lifted their spirits and they went on to beat the crap out of the Cardinals.

1992, at Atlanta, beat them to win the NFCE, I was there, so that one stands out to me.

Many others.

 

[JoeKing]

I am looking into the future.

2020 and/or 2021 champs. I'll take em both. I do love me some Cowboys.

The question was favorite games that were not Super Bowl wins. Try again.

 

[CouchCoach]

Beating the Skins 35-34 on that pass from Staubach to Hill and The Emmitt Game against the Giants to win the East, get the bye and win the 2nd ring in a row. Those two games are above SB's to me as wins.

Then, there's the Ice Bowl, which changed me from a co-fan, Cards, to an exclusive. They lost that day but they weren't the Cowboys, they were the Cowmen that day.

 

[MarkP88]

Mine are a pair of consecutive games. Back in 2009 week 17 in Cowboys Stadium the Cowboys had to win the game to win the NFC East title, lose and they were the #6 seed. The eagles had to win to win the NFC East title and be the #2 seed and get a bye or lose and be the #6 seed. The Cowboys shut them out winning 24-0. The next week in Cowboys stadium again the Cowboys won again 34-14.

Beating the eagles two week in a row can't get much better than that except Super Bowl wins.

I have a few:

The last game of the 1979 season. I was already a Cowboys fan, but this is the game that really made me a fanatic about both the team and football in general. It was a crazy game - Cowboys went up 14-0, Washington scored 17 straight points, the Cowboys went up 21-17, then Washington went up 34-21 with about four minutes left. I was watching the game at my grandmother's house in Queens, NY, and my uncle, a die-hard Giants fan who despised the Cowboys, was needling me -- "they have no chance now. This game is over." Of course, Staubach led the team to a quick TD, Cole stopped Riggins for a 2 yard loss on a crucial third down to get the Cowboys the ball back, then Staubach led another drive ending with a TD to Tony Hill; the extra point gave them the win. (I later transferred the audio of this game's highlights to a tape, so I could listen to it in my Walkman...yep, dating myself, and revealing what a doofus I was.)

The first game of the '95 season, a Monday nighter against the Giants. A friend who lived on the West Coast but whose family had Giants season tickets for decades gave me two prime tickets to this game - lower tier, on the 45 yard line, about 15 rows up from the field. My friend and I get there, wearing our Cowboys shirts and whatnot, and two already-inebriated Giants fans in front of us immediately begin to pick a fight. "Where did you get these tickets?" "A friend gave them to me." "Not these seats, pal, nobody gives these seats away..." it proceeds like that until the game starts...and on like the third offensive play, Emmitt busts a 60+ yard TD; we didn't hear another peep from them the rest of the game, and the Cowboys won 35-0.

I was also at the last game of the '93 season in the Meadowlands, where Emmitt played on a separated shoulder for half the game, which was classic.

I used to go down to Dallas once a year to see a game, too - my favorite of those was beating the Eagles in '92, that was the point where I think everyone started to feel like a step forward was taken and we'd thrown a monkey off our backs.

 

[TexasHillbilly]

The question was favorite games that were not Super Bowl wins. Try again.

Yeah I know but I have so many. Been watchin since 1970.

 

[Diehardblues]

I’d have to include many of the Championship and playoff games.

1978 championship 28-0 over the Rams one of the most fun.

And 1972 playoff against 49ers with 15 point comeback in 4th qtr. Hard to beat that one.

 

[lurkercowboy]

☆'80 NFC Div Round...Danny and the Miracle...comeback win over falcons on the road...30-27.
☆Sept 5,1983...MNF comeback win over Commanders @RFK 31-30.
☆'85...28-21 win over the giants @Texas Stadium to win the East.
☆'86...MNF wk1...Herschel Walker debut...win over giants 31-28.
☆'87...Nov '87...23-17OT win over new england on Herschel's 60+ yd TD.
☆'88...Dec 11...Coach Landry's last win...up-set road victory over washington 24-17

Those games are all on my list too, along with the 1979 35-34 comeback over the Commanders and the 1992 NFC title game win over the 49ers.