DALLAS — Winston Churchill told us more than a century ago that history is written by the victors. But he was slightly off when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys and the famous breakup between Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson. History is also written, it turns out, by those who stick around.
For the last 28 years, plenty of stories have been offered as to how it all went down in the spring of 1994 — why in the world a team that had just won two Super Bowls with a young roster poised to capture more could come unraveled at the very top of the organization? It’s a story that has been dissected many times, not just because it is one of a kind (coaches don’t get fired or walk away at the height of their team’s success) but because of how the winning suddenly stopped for the Cowboys two years later.
An organization that competed in eight Super Bowls and 16 NFC (or NFL) championship games in a 30-year stretch has now gone 26 without a sniff of either.
