Lions win means Cowboys now have second-longest NFC Championship Game drought
The NFC Championship Game will see the Detroit Lions play. Our planet is amazing.
Lions supporters have endured a lot throughout the team’s existence, so it is difficult to be unhappy for them.
They have had immense happiness this season as they have not only won two postseason games but also the NFC North for
the first time ever (the previous time they won the division was the NFC Central).
Detroit had not won in the playoffs since they defeated the Dallas Cowboys at the end of the 1991 season, and these two victories were their first.
Dallas wouldn’t lose another playoff game for a long time after that one, as their dynasty began soon after, but Detroit didn’t have any success at all in the interim.
Over time, the Lions have emerged as one of just two teams to have a lengthier tenure back in the playoffs than the Cowboys.
The conference’s longest run without a trip to the NFC Championship Game was shared by Detroit, but it is now over.
Washington is now alone in last position. However, you are aware of its meaning.
The Dallas Cowboys now have the second-longest NFC Championship Game appearance drought in the entire conference.
We noted on Saturday that the Baltimore Ravens made it to their fifth conference championship game in their franchise history.
That is the Baltimore Ravens franchise that literally did not exist the last time that Dallas was in a title game themselves.
The Lions have only made the title game one time since Dallas last did, obviously in our present moment, but what is
amazing of all other teams that are not the Cowboys or Commanders is that they have all made it multiple times.
To be clear we are talking about the 13 teams in the NFC that are not Dallas, Washington or Detroit.
Literally each and every single one has made it back to the penultimate game of the season at least two different times.
That list includes the Carolina Panthers who began play in the season that Dallas last made it, by the way.
Sadly, there are plenty of ways to express how excruciating the Dallas Cowboys drought is.
However, at this moment in time, they and Washington have by far the longest droughts.
Last NFC Championship Game appearance
- Washington Commanders, 1991
- Dallas Cowboys, 1995
- Chicago Bears, 2010
- New York Giants, 2011
- Seattle Seahawks, 2014
- Carolina Panthers, 2015
- Arizona Cardinals, 2015
- Atlanta Falcons, 2016
- Minnesota Vikings, 2017
- New Orleans Saints, 2018
- Green Bay Packers, 2020
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2020
- Los Angeles Rams, 2021
- Philadelphia Eagles, 2022
- San Francisco 49ers, 2023
- Detroit Lions, 2023
When will it ever end?
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