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Dallas Cowboys Milestones

Order these Dallas Cowboys franchise moments by the year they happened. Place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

Dallas Cowboys Milestones
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How Dallas Cowboys Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

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28 of the 28 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Played their first NFL season The expansion club went winless under new head coach Tom Landry, whose tenure would last 29 years.
  • Drafted Bob Lilly The TCU defensive tackle was the first draft pick in franchise history and became known as 'Mr. Cowboy'.
  • Drafted Roger Staubach Dallas spent a 10th-round future pick on the Heisman-winning Navy quarterback, knowing he owed years of military service first.
  • Posted their first winning season After six losing years, the team went 10-3-1 and hosted its first NFL Championship Game appearance against Green Bay.
  • Lost the Ice Bowl Bart Starr's quarterback sneak in minus-13-degree Lambeau Field cold ended the Cowboys' title bid on the final day of the year.
  • Roger Staubach made his debut After completing his Navy service, the 27-year-old rookie quarterback finally joined the team he had been drafted by five years earlier.
  • Opened Texas Stadium The new Irving home featured a famous hole in the roof, said to let God watch His favorite team.
  • Won Super Bowl VI The 24-3 win over Miami brought the franchise's first championship, with Roger Staubach named MVP.
  • Threw the original Hail Mary Staubach's desperation playoff heave to Drew Pearson stunned the Vikings in Minnesota and gave the play its name.
  • Lost Super Bowl X Lynn Swann's acrobatic catches helped Pittsburgh edge Dallas 21-17 in Miami.
  • Drafted Tony Dorsett Dallas traded up to take the Heisman-winning Pitt running back second overall.
  • Won Super Bowl XII Defensive linemen Randy White and Harvey Martin shared MVP honors in a 27-10 rout of Denver.
  • Lost Super Bowl XIII In a 35-31 rematch with the Steelers, a wide-open Jackie Smith dropped a touchdown pass in the end zone.
  • Roger Staubach retired Captain Comeback walked away after a career featuring two Super Bowl titles and countless late rallies.
  • Lost the NFC title game on 'The Catch' Dwight Clark's leaping end-zone grab from Joe Montana at Candlestick Park ended a Cowboys dynasty era.
  • Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys The new owner fired Tom Landry, hired Jimmy Johnson, and the team drafted Troy Aikman first overall that spring.
  • Drafted Emmitt Smith The Florida running back slipped to the 17th pick, where Dallas grabbed its future all-time rushing leader.
  • Won Super Bowl XXVII Dallas crushed Buffalo 52-17 in Pasadena as Troy Aikman took MVP honors, though Leon Lett was famously chased down by Don Beebe.
  • Won Super Bowl XXVIII Emmitt Smith was MVP of a second straight title win over the Bills, weeks before Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones split up.
  • Signed Deion Sanders Prime Time left San Francisco for a blockbuster free-agent deal in Dallas.
  • Won Super Bowl XXX Cornerback Larry Brown's two interceptions earned him MVP in a 27-17 win over Pittsburgh, the third title in four seasons.
  • Emmitt Smith broke the career rushing record Against Seattle at Texas Stadium, he passed Walter Payton's all-time mark.
  • Hired Bill Parcells The two-time Super Bowl-winning coach came out of retirement and led Dallas to an immediate 10-6 turnaround.
  • Tony Romo became the starter The undrafted quarterback replaced Drew Bledsoe at halftime of a Giants game and never gave the job back.
  • Opened AT&T Stadium Jerry Jones's $1.2 billion Arlington palace debuted with a video board so huge punters could hit it.
  • Lost on the overturned Dez Bryant catch A leaping fourth-down grab at Lambeau Field was ruled incomplete on review, ending a divisional playoff run.
  • Drafted Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott The rookie pair, taken in the fourth and first rounds of the same draft, led Dallas to a 13-3 season.
  • Drafted Micah Parsons The Penn State linebacker, taken 12th overall, won Defensive Rookie of the Year.

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