NFC championship game, Cowboys
They may be "America's Team," but it's been a long time since the Dallas Cowboys played in front of the country in an NFC Championship Game. In fact, no NFC team has had a longer NFC title game drought than the Cowboys by virtue of the Washington Commanders' shocking upset win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.
The NFC Championship Game will feature two teams from the NFC East and neither of them is the Dallas Cowboys for the 30th year.
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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 now own the longest NFC Championship drought after the Washington Commanders punched their ticket to the conference title game on Saturday night.
Now that the Commanders have reached this playoff feat, a new team takes the unfortunate streak since last making an NFC championship, and it happens to be the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys haven't reached the conference title game since the 1995 season. Every other NFC team has reached the title game since 1996.
Sunday's matchup with the Washington Commanders is the Eagles' ninth for the NFC title since the AFL/NFL merger in 1970.
Here are the teams with the most NFC Championship Game wins, losses and appearances ahead of this year's matchup between the Commanders and Eagles.
The Washington Commanders are in the NFC championship game after going 12-5 in the regular season and winning two playoff games
The Dallas Cowboys now have the longest NFC Championship drought in the league. DALLAS - The Washington Commanders win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday moved the Dallas Cowboys into a title no team wants to have. Every team in the NFC has been to the NFC Championship game more recently than Dallas.