If you didn't have a rooting interest in Super Bowl 60, odds are you were pulling for DeMarcus Lawrence and the Seattle Seahawks. When the dust settled, Seattle dismantled the New England Patriots 29-13 to win its second championship in the last 15 years.
While Lawrence didn't leave the Dallas Cowboys on great terms, he was a great servant over his 12 years with the franchise and is a potential candidate for the Ring of Honor.
On top of reaching football's mountaintop, Lawrence is currently taking a victory lap over Jerry Jones after he said upon signing with Seattle that he would never win a Super Bowl with Dallas. That quote has blown the trolling floodgates wide open on social media, and rightfully so.
After all, Lawrence is now the second example of a Cowboys great winning a Super Bowl immediately after leaving the team.
As RJ Ochoa of Blogging The Boys pointed out, DeMarcus Ware won it all in just his second season with the Denver Broncos. Oddly enough, both games were played at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.
DeMarcus Ware and DeMarcus Lawrence each won Super Bowls shortly after leaving the Cowboys.
— RJ Ochoa (@rjochoa) February 9, 2026
It took Ware’s Broncos two seasons.
Lawrence’s Seahawks did it right away.
Both happened at Levi’s Stadium.
DeMarcus Lawrence and DeMarcus Ware both won Super Bowls shortly after leaving the Dallas Cowboys
It can always be worse with the post-1990s Cowboys, and it usually is.
Lawrence and Ware are two of Dallas' most iconic players of the last 20 years, regardless of position. Needless to say, Ware was the better Cowboy, but that takes nothing away from Lawrence, who ranks 10th in franchise history with 61.5 sacks, tied for third with 21 forced fumbles, and second only to Ware in both tackles for loss (97.5) and quarterback hits (126).
It's extremely rare nowadays for a player to spend their entire career with one franchise, but Lawrence and Ware should have been forever Cowboys. And both should have hoisted their first Lombardi Trophy with America's Team.
Unfortunately, Dallas couldn't get over the hump with Lawrence and Ware in their respective primes. The former perennial Pro Bowlers had 11 and 9 cracks at the can, respectively.
Ware played from 2005 to 2013 before spending his final three seasons with the Broncos. Lawrence arrived the following year as a second-round pick and remained with the Cowboys from 2014 to 2024. In 19 (!) combined seasons wearing the star, neither reached an NFC title game until leaving the franchise. That is more than 63 percent of the 30-year Super Bowl drought.
It hurts even more spelled out like that.
Cowboys fans can only hope the same fate doesn’t await Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, and Tyler Smith.