I'll take making the playoffs every year....I'm looking for excellence and competitiveness. 9 years with no playoffs is not what the Cowboys are all about.
A 1 year wonder or lucky team that can't even manage to make the playoffs for 9 years in a row is not a championship team or anything for me to be proud of. For most of us, being a great team and failing to win the SB for years under Landry is part of what made us loyal to a team that never quit and finally found its way to win it all....
I'm proud of winning 5 SBs, but I'm equally proud to have made the playoffs 17 consequitive years, something no other team could do, and I remember being hurt the first year that streak was broken as much as when we lost SB V to Baltimore.