History of Dallas Cowboys

Dallas Cowboys

The people who love football must be aware of Dallas cowboys. They are the one of the best and successful American football team of today. Due to the popularity and successful team the Dallas cowboys were nicknamed as American team. They settle down in the Dallas residential area of Irving, Texas. The Dallas cowboys recently played home games at Texas stadium in Irving but they will move to new stadium close to Arlington in 2009. They are actually American football team in the eastern division of the national football conference in the national football league. It is one of the highest earning money team of NFL as compared to the other teams. The success never comes easily exactly the same thing happened with Dallas cowboys after long struggle they were able to make their name. There is always a history behind every success story. The Dallas cowboys joined the NFL in 1960 as expansion team. It is one of the successful team of NFL after the failure of all American football conference about 10 year before. The owner of the team was Clint Murchison Jr and the first thing what he did he appointed the Tex Schramm as general manager and Tom Landry as head coach. The Gil Brandt was appointed as player personnel director. They started playing from the stadium called cotton Bowl but they lost matches in first seasons 0-11-1. After this defeat the cowboys slowly and gradually started progressing because every year they get good players. One of the reasons of popularity of Dallas cowboys are because of their record winning such as 5 super bowls and 8 conference champions. Beside this they also hold some records like 40 winning on Monday night football as compared to any other team of NFL. This is not all because Dallas cowboys has also hold the record of continuously winning season 20 from 1966 to 1985. The other credit goes to Dallas cowboys especially in the history of NFL that they won the 3 super bowls within 4 years.

As a team they saw ups and down but in 1970 they become popular team not only in their state but also all over the country. The cowboy’s team of 1970 was based on the new talent such as Harvey Martine, Ed “tall too” Jones and two hall of farmer are also part of this team. Due to the new talent they were able to win the super bowl Xll and even reached in super bowl of X or Xlll. The performance of the cowboys was over all great in 1970. The cowboys faced two defeats in 1986 and 1988 under the ownership of H.R Bum Bright. He purchased the cowboys from Murchison in 1984 then he later sold to the Jerry Jones in 1989. He appointed the former university of Miami coach Jimmy Johnson as the head coach under his supervision team lost the matches but reached the super bowl XXVII. Beside this the other head coach of the cowboys was Barry Switzer in 1994, Chan Gailey in 1998 and after two years the Dave campo becomes head coach. The wade Philip was seventh head coach of Dallas cowboys under him the team is performing well. We have discussed few things about the Dallas cowboys but those who are interested about news, player information and their progress can checkout on internet.