Around this time, both teams would have firm identities. The NFL said no, stating that the league was not expanding at the time. The Cowboys swept all four matchups between the two teams in the decade. New Cowboys owner Jerry Jones fired Landry after the season. The Cowboys would return to prominence in the 1990s, winning three Super Bowls, while the Steelers would return to AFC Championship contention under head coach Bill Cowher. After the Cowboys won Super Bowl XII, the two would meet again in Super Bowl XIII, considered one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played and consisted of a combined 20 players, coaches, and front-office administration that ended up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, an NFL record. The two teams have met each other 32 times (including 3 postseason games), with the Dallas Cowboys winning 17 games and the Pittsburgh Steelers winning 15 games. [4] Since this was shortly after the Super Bowl teams of the 1970s, fans' allegiance to the Steelers naturally stayed strong – the beginnings of Steeler Nation. Like the previous two matchups, the game was close, but this time favored the Cowboys, who won 27–17 after Steelers quarterback Neil O'Donnell threw two interceptions to Cowboys cornerback Larry Brown, who would be named Super Bowl MVP for his efforts. Relive the Week 6, 2012 matchup between the Denver Broncos and the San Diego Chargers by watching this full game replay brought to you by NFL Game Pass. They play in different conferences (In which the Dallas Cowboys are in the NFC East and the Pittsburgh Steelers are in the AFC North), they only meet once every four regular seasons and occasionally in the preseason. Both of Dallas' 1970s Super Bowl MVP's--Chuck Howley and Randy White—hail from the Pittsburgh Tri-State, as well as Super Bowls V and VI Cowboys star Mike Ditka. Today there are significant numbers of persons living in the Dallas Metroplex and Houston that were born and raised in the Pittsburgh region,[5] as well as significant numbers of North Texans living in the southern and western areas of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan region[citation needed]. Relive the 2017 NFC Championship Game matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and the Philadelphia Eagles by watching this full game replay brought to you by NFL Game Pass. The Cowboys currently lead the all-time series 17–15. Relive the Week 4, 2016 matchup between the Oakland Raiders and the Baltimore Ravens by watching this full game replay brought to you by NFL Game Pass. Relive the Week 16, 2016 matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Baltimore Ravens by watching this full game replay brought to you by NFL Game Pass. High school football in both regions draws crowds in the tens of thousands and gets regular press coverage in both regions. The possibility of Cowboys–Steelers III for Super Bowl XXIX existed, as both teams advanced to their respective conference championships. Relive the Thanksgiving 1998 matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and the Dallas Cowboys by watching this full game replay brought to you by NFL Game Pass. They play in different conferences (In which the Dallas Cowboys are in the NFC East and the Pittsburgh Steelers are in the AFC North), they only meet once every four regular seasons and occasionally in the preseason. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/business/economy/08collapse.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1338474337-iJrNlZ4IxiQcQEBug4LpCg, http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7239692/nfl-displaced-steelers-fans-found-new-home-houston, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cowboys–Steelers_rivalry&oldid=956844634, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 15 May 2020, at 16:44. Conversely, two members of the Steelers' famed Steel Curtain defensive line (Ernie Holmes and "Mean Joe" Greene) are Texas natives, as is former Steelers Pro Bowl nose tackle Casey Hampton, as well as the player that Chuck Noll chose in front of Dan Marino during the 1983 NFL Draft, Gabriel Rivera. In response, the NFL suddenly reversed course and awarded an expansion team to Dallas for the 1960 season that ultimately became the Cowboys. Relive the Week 10, 2015 matchup between the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers by watching this full game replay brought to you by NFL Game Pass. The browser you are using is no longer supported on this site. The lone holdout was Steelers founder and owner Art Rooney. However, in 1959, Lamar Hunt, the son of oil tycoon H. L. Hunt, approached the NFL about putting another expansion team in Dallas. Their first game was against the same Steelers team that voted against putting an NFL team in Dallas eight years earlier, with the Steelers coming away with a 35–28 victory at the Cotton Bowl, en route to an 0–11–1 first season for the Cowboys. The two teams met in the Super Bowl three times. Not wanting the team to compete with the Giants in the same market, the NFL decided to move the rights to the franchise to either the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex or Baltimore. The two teams would head in opposite directions the rest of the decade, with the Cowboys competing for the NFL championship in 1966 and 1967 (both losses to the Vince Lombardi-led Green Bay Packers, the latter matchup in the Ice Bowl) while the Steelers would be among the NFL's worst teams, culminating in a 1–13 record in 1969 that saw the team win its season opener against the Detroit Lions, then lose every game afterwards in the first season of Hall of Fame head coach Chuck Noll.