Once dominant on championship Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys are again - for the 29th consecutive year - only a sad spectator.
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’ NFC Championship drought turns 30 this year. And with the Commanders making it to the Super Bowl semifinal game, Dallas now has the longest streak in the NFC without appearing in a final-four game.
After three decades of stumbling worse than the Cowboys, Washington and QB Jayden Daniels have hit the big time.
The Philadelphia Eagles came away as the winners in an all-NFC East battle for a conference title, taking down Washington 55-23. For the second time in three years, the Eagles are representing the NFC in the Super Bowl.
The Cowboys could have used this as a "sickness-and-cure'' admission to demonstrate how "Schotty'' is going to end the 29-year drought. Instead, with two wagging fingers, Stephen Jones suggested that there really is no 29-year drought at all.
With the Commanders ending their 33-year wait, the Cowboys now have the longest Championship game 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.
The Dallas Cowboys have nothing else left to do this NFL season except to watch their rivals duke it out in the Super Bowl.
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.