A new chapter in one of the NFL’s best rivalries will be written Sunday when the 49ers play the Dallas Cowboys at Levi’s Stadium.
This will be the ninth playoff meeting between storied franchises who have each won the Super Bowl five times. It’ll be just the third playoff meeting between the franchises that won’t send the winner directly to the Super Bowl. The winner of the divisional round game will need one more victory to get a shot at joining the Patriots and Steelers as six-time champs.
Dallas leads the playoff series 5-3, but the 49ers have won the past two meetings, including last year’s NFC wild-card game. That was the first playoff meeting between the teams in 28 years, a rare lengthy break in a series that has seen the teams play each other three years in a row during the 1970s and 1990s — and produced one of the NFL’s most iconic moments in 1981.
