The Landry Hat » Next Year’s Champions http://thelandryhat.com A Dallas Cowboys Fan Site - News, Blogs, Opinion and more. Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 What Would Have Happened If…The Cowboys Won Super Bowl V? http://thelandryhat.com/2012/06/30/what-would-have-happened-if-the-cowboys-won-super-bowl-v/ http://thelandryhat.com/2012/06/30/what-would-have-happened-if-the-cowboys-won-super-bowl-v/#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2012 12:00:17 +0000 Mark Lane http://thelandryhat.com/?p=16566 The Dallas Cowboys were billed as “Next Year’s Champions” the “Bridesmaids of the NFL” due to their dramatic losses to the Green Bay Packers in the 1966 and 1967 NFL Title games. And the pressure to win it all only intensified when the Cowboys were embarrassed by the Browns away and at home in the [...]

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]]> The Dallas Cowboys were billed as “Next Year’s Champions” the “Bridesmaids of the NFL” due to their dramatic losses to the Green Bay Packers in the 1966 and 1967 NFL Title games. And the pressure to win it all only intensified when the Cowboys were embarrassed by the Browns away and at home in the 1968 and 1969 NFL playoffs, respectively. So when Super Bowl V arrived, and the Cowboys having won respectably en route to their championship berth, it was reasonable to presume the Cowboys would win despite the Colts being 2.5 favorites.

Super Bowl V remains as part of that heart-rendering time for older Cowboys fans. They would have liked to have seen longtime players like Pettis Norman, who were there when the Cowboys reeked in the early ’60s, taste the sweet championship nectar. Instead, Super Bowl V served them a bitter goblet of disappointment. And the thing that stings the most about Super Bowl V is it seemed like no one really wanted to win that day. At least in Super Bowls X and XIII, the Steelers were out to win on those fateful January days. In Super Bowl V, it’s like the Colts and the Cowboys had an aversion to the Lombardi Trophy similar to when a homeschool basketballer sees a booger on the basketball.

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