The Cowboys gave their fans hope on Monday Night Football after their 31-14 beating of Tom Brady and the Buccaneers in the Wild Card game.
It was a very cheerful sight for fans, minus the four missed PATs from Brett Maher after they didn’t end the regular season on a high note. But they won, and it was in an impressive fashion.
So good that the fans in the stadium were already looking forward to their next opponent, the 49ers. One fan even face-timed Niners WR Deebo Samuel during the game and let him know they were coming to see him telling him to be ready.
It had to be a friend or something because how else would he get his number?
This will be like classic 70s, 80s, and 90s Cowboys-49ers rivalry game.
The 49ers–Cowboys rivalry is a National Football League (NFL) rivalry between the San Francisco 49ers and the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys lead the series 19–18–1. It is one of the great inter-division rivalry games in the NFL. The two teams do not play every year; instead, they play once every three years due to the NFL’s rotating division schedules, or if the two teams finish in the same place in their respective divisions, they would play the ensuing season. Sports Illustrated ranked it as the eighth best rivalry while the NFL Top 10 ranked this rivalry to be the tenth best in the NFL. In 2020, CBS ranked it as the No. 1 NFL rivalry of the 1990s.[4] The rivalry was also the subject of two 2015 episodes of NFL Network’s The Timeline entitled “A Tale of Two Cities” with actors Sam Elliott (Cowboys) and Jeremy Renner (49ers) as narrators.
The rivalry between the Cowboys and 49ers has been going on since the 1970s, including eight postseason games. The Cowboys defeated the 49ers in the 1970 and 1971 NFC Championship games, and again in the 1972 Divisional Playoff Game. The 1981 NFC Championship Game in San Francisco, which saw the 49ers’ Joe Montana complete a game-winning pass to Dwight Clark in the final minute (now known as The Catch) is one of the most famous games in NFL history.
The rivalry became even more intense from 1992 to 1994 when the two teams faced each other in the NFC Championship Game during all three seasons. Dallas won the first two match-ups while San Francisco won the third, and in each of these pivotal match-ups, the game’s victor went on to win the Super Bowl. With the Cowboys winning the Super Bowl following the 1995 season, from 1992 to 1995, either the Cowboys or the 49ers were Super Bowl champions, giving both teams five each – which, at the time, was tied for the most by any NFL team (currently, both teams are tied for third behind the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots with six each).
The rivalry went cold for many years due to the two teams’ inability to make the postseason in the same year after 1998 and until 2021, when both teams made the playoffs and were matched against each other in the Wild Card Round in Dallas. The 49ers won that game 23–17.
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