What Cowboys loss was the hardest for you to take?

[AmishCowboy]

Both losses to the Steelers in the Super Bowl, the '81' NFC Championship game & the '94' NFC Championship game.

You got it, Throw in the Seattle playoff game and to a lesser extent The
Thanksgiving day game against the Dolphins, at the time it was brutal, but since we went on the win the SB, all wounds have healed.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

44-6 sucked

 

[Chief]

The 35-31 loss to the Steelers in the Super Bowl. So many crazy plays in that game that went against Dallas.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

This year it was the stadium opener against the Giants.

I hate that we lost to a clearly inferior team because they had the ball bounce their way a couple of times. It really bugged me that we opened the new stadium the wrong way much like we closed the old stadium the wrong way.


As for my worst loss ever it's a dead on tie between the Giants playoff game after the 2007 season and the final game at Texas Stadium last year.

Those two losses just killed me cause we should have won both of those games and just didn't get it done. Plus the meaning of those two games was big to me.


Almost everyone here keeps saying the 1994 NFC Championship game but I don't see that really. While it was very sad, and sucked that they lost, I was, and continue to be, extremely proud of that game because of how hard that team continued to fight back, continued to claw and scratch to have a shot to win the game.

Outside of the 3 Superbowl wins I've seen as a Cowboy fan I can't think of another game where I was as proud of a Cowboys team as I was that day.

 

[Alexander]

The 35-31 loss to the Steelers in the Super Bowl. So many crazy plays in that game that went against Dallas.

If there were one game I could pick to play over in our history it would be that game.

It was not a bad loss as that was a great team. But there were so many freakish things that happened that I would like to have seen a rematch without Jackie Smith dropping the TD, Randy White fumbling or Fred Swearingen robbing us.

 

[lurkercowboy]

The catch and the 82 NFC championship versus the Commanders of course, but a couple that no one has mentioned are the 1983 and 1984 regular season losses against the Commanders in Dallas.

Especially 1984. Both teams were 9-5, Dallas took a 21-6 halftime lead. Bates dropped a sure interception TD that would have made it 28-6. Commanders came back to win, Dallas would have won the division instead they went on the miss the playoffs.

That was the first missed playoffs in my life as a Cowboy fan.

 

[THUMPER]

Almost everyone here keeps saying the 1994 NFC Championship game but I don't see that really. While it was very sad, and sucked that they lost, I was, and continue to be, extremely proud of that game because of how hard that team continued to fight back, continued to claw and scratch to have a shot to win the game.

Outside of the 3 Superbowl wins I've seen as a Cowboy fan I can't think of another game where I was as proud of a Cowboys team as I was that day.

I agree, that loss was a disappointment but I was so proud of the team and especially Aikman that day that I didn't take it nearly as hard as a lot of other big losses.

The games that were hardest for me to take were the big game losses when I was a kid. As an adult I have learned to take them a little less devastatingly and put them into perspective a lot better than when I was 10 or so.

 

[Hook'em#11]

2002 season opener vs the Texans, any Cowboy fan living in Houston knows why.

This one is up in the top 5 as well.

The "Catch" Definately THE serious heartbreaker. I balled my eyes out. Hey. lol, pretty tramatic when you are 10.


And , the "Pickle Juice" game 9/3/00. And while this game wasn't "heartbreakin" in a sense. Dallas just got completely dominated. It was definately a frustrating loss and a sign of things to come in regards to the Cowboys. That game sucked, and still gives me a bad taste in my mouth thinking about that game.

 

[Dodger]

SB XIII

And for the record, the Cowboys were the better team. I don't care what anyone says.

Oh, and **** Bradshaw. I hate his guts.

Yeah, that game was hard to take.

 

[bbgun]

The catch and the 82 NFC championship versus the Commanders of course, but a couple that no one has mentioned are the 1983 and 1984 regular season losses against the Commanders in Dallas.

Especially 1984. Both teams were 9-5, Dallas took a 21-6 halftime lead. Bates dropped a sure interception TD that would have made it 28-6. Commanders came back to win, Dallas would have won the division instead they went on the miss the playoffs.

That was the first missed playoffs in my life as a Cowboy fan.

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[Kangaroo]

What one Cowboys loss was the hardest for you to take?

Dave Campo's choke Job against the Texans

 

[bbgun]

The 35-31 loss to the Steelers in the Super Bowl. So many crazy plays in that game that went against Dallas.

Never let them tell you that Tom didn't show emotion.

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[JohnsKey19]

1982 NFCC game to Commanders (No, Danny, no game) - mostly because I was much younger back then and couldn't handle losses as well.

Same here. Only time I cried after a loss. Since that game, Hogeboom's name was DIRT to me.

 

[LucaBrasi]

Super Bowl XIII - Even though I was 8, I remember crying probably because I have to live here with Steeler idiots.

The Catch - another heartbreaker. The 81 team was very good and I felt that would have been a victory in the SB against the Bengals. Gut wrenching.

The 94 Title Game - as Braveheart said, you couldn't help but be proud of the way they battled. Aikman even has said he felt this game defined them and had his portrait for Canton be a picture from this game. With all that being said, this game moves up the ladder for me as time has went on mainly because this was their chance at immortality. 3 straight SB wins, and likely 4 the next year would have placed them above all dynasties in the SB era.

 

[DallasKnight]

This year, Vikings.

All time, it's a tie between 1994 NFCC game and SB 13.

This.... +1

 

[BehindEnemyLinez]

What one Cowboys loss was the hardest for you to take?

This season... the home opener
All time... '81 NFC Championship

 

[NextGenBoys]

Obviously, the Vikings game. Just knowing that Dallas was the better team and now in retrospect, seeing a team that the Cowboys dominated win the Super Bowl makes it even worse.

The second Giants loss this year really irked me, just 'cause it seemed like Romo and Witten were playing what I think were the best 2 games of their careers thus far, only to have it wasted by a special teams collapse.

A.) We were not the better team.
B.) We did not dominate the Saints. We won by seven, and they were driving until DWare's strip.

 

[JBS]

A.) We were not the better team.
B.) We did not dominate the Saints. We won by seven, and they were driving until DWare's strip.

yeah, because it's not like we were up 21-0 after 3 quarters or anything...it's not like we missed a chip shot FG to put the game away..

 

[EPL0c0]

Denver... b/c I made the trip up there to see the game. I still had loads of fun, their fans were a total class act about their win, but that was a game that even my Broncos fan friends say they should have lost.

Also, the 1st Giants game. It was probably the worst regular-season performance of 2009 w/ FOUR turnovers, but still...Dallas was in the game. One defensive stop at the end and who knows... Plus, it was a crappy wait to open the stadium.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

Hardest Playoff loss

2nd hardest Broncos loss

3rd and 4th NYG losses