I've witnessed Cowboys Super Bowl wins and losses.
You NEVER, EVER get over a Super Bowl loss. It's why I'll hate the Pittsburgh Steelers for all of my days. Heck, IMO, we still owe them one more.
If we must lose (statistically likely), I just want a close game with great effort, but not in the Super Bowl.
That said, like others have mentioned, just enjoy the ride, but hopefully, it won't be one game in.
This.
For those who weren’t around to experience the pain of losing SBXIII to Pittsburgh, they’ll never know how deeply that cut. And perhaps no team in the SB era suffered a more devastating loss than the 78 Cowboys because it was not only an epic game between clearly the two best teams in football, it was the defining game for team of the 70s. Pittsburgh won and is ranked among the greatest teams in NFL history. They have a wing in Canton to themselves. Had Dallas won, three or four more guys would have a bronze bust, and Staubach would be in the argument for greatest QB of all time.
There have been heartbreaking losses in Cowboys history - NFCCG loss in 81 to SF, later in 94 to SF, the Ice Bowl - but nothing like SBXIII.
Teams are remembered for SB wins AND losses.
The Vikings of the 70s are thought of as choke artists for going 0-4 in SBs that decade. No one mentions the great regular seasons they put together year after year, or the conference championships won or those legendary defenses. Some might argue - and with good reasons - that Alan Page was the greatest DT of all time, but since his legacy is attached to 0-4 in the SB and Joe Greene was 4-0, Page is often an afterthought. (For my two cents, Bob Lilly and Page were the two best DTs to ever play the game.)
The Bills dominated the AFC for half a decade in the 90s but no one remembers the AFCCG wins, only the heartbreaking SB losses, and they’re left branded perennial losers.
I’m Italian and I like World Cup soccer and I root for Italy. There was no more bitter loss than losing to Brazil on penalty kicks in the 94 WCF. An earlier loss in the tournament would not hurt two decades later.
I might be in the minority here, but I’ll take the L before the SB.