The Dallas Cowboys are a Dallas-Fort Worth based professional American football club. The National Football League’s National Football Conference East division is where the Cowboys compete.
The team was established in January 1960. In 1960, the Cowboys became an expansion team in the NFL. The NFL record of consecutive sell-outs for the team may be the best indicator of its widespread support. Beginning in 2002, the Cowboys played 190 consecutive regular-season and postseason home and road games to capacity crowds.
With eight Super Bowl appearances, the team is tied with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos for the second-most in history, just behind the New England Patriots’ record-breaking eleven Super Bowl appearances. Additionally, eight NFC championships—the most in the NFC—have coincided with this.
The Cowboys have triumphed in five of those Super Bowl appearances, tying them with their NFC rivals, the San Francisco 49ers, and placing them third overall behind the record-setting six Super Bowl victories earned by Pittsburgh and New England. The Cowboys are the only NFL team to have 20 consecutive winning seasons with only two postseason appearances missed.
What were the Dallas Cowboys called before?
The Dallas Steers and Dallas Rangers were the team’s previous names. To avoid conflict with the American Association Dallas Rangers baseball team, the team name was changed to the Cowboys on March 19, 1960, according to the organization.