For three decades now, the Dallas Cowboys have failed to appear in the Super Bowl, with January 28 marking the 30th anniversary of the last time America's Team hoisted the Lombardi Trophy, taking down the rival Pittsburgh Steelers by a score of 27-17 in Super Bowl 30.
And as every Dallas fan (and every hater, for that matter) well knows, the Cowboys haven't even come close to getting back to The Big Game, as they haven't even made an appearance in the NFC Championship Game since that run to close out the 1995 campaign. And just to add insult to injury, so to speak, they're actually the only NFC team not to reach conference championship weekend over these last 30 years.
All that said, while the Cowboys obviously haven't taken the field for the final game of the season, they've certainly seen plenty of former players do so during this three-decade futility stretch. And that will again be the case in Super Bowl 60, but only with the Seattle Seahawks, as there are currently no former Dallas players on the New England Patriots' active roster.
Linebacker Darius Harris, who appeared in four regular-season games for the Cowboys in 2024, played three games for the Pats in 2025 but has resided on the practice squad injured reserve list since mid-November.
DeMarcus Lawrence is one of two former Cowboys suiting up for the Seahawks in Super Bowl 60
The Seahawks, on the other hand, have a pair of former Cowboys set to suit up on Sunday, the most high-profile player, of course, being defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence.
Taken by Dallas in the second round of the 2014 draft with the 34th overall pick, the Boise State alum spent 11 seasons with the Cowboys, earning four trips to the Pro Bowl as well as a Second-Team All-Pro selection in 2017, a season during which he racked up a career-high 14.5 sacks en route to a fourth-place finish in the Defensive Player of the Year voting.
Lawrence ruffled a few feathers last year after signing a three-year, $32.5 million contract with the Seahawks by saying he simply needed to leave Dallas because he had no real shot to win a Super Bowl. But while Cowboys fans didn't like it, he obviously knew what he was talking about, as he's now in position to what DeMarcus Ware did a decade ago with the Denver Broncos.
And make no mistake about it; Lawrence is one of the reasons Seattle is in this position, as he earned a fifth Pro Bowl selection after tallying 53 total tackles, 11 tackles for loss, 20 quarterback hits, 6.0 sacks, and three fumble recoveries, two of which he returned for touchdowns.
The second Seahawks player with ties to Dallas is backup tight end Eric Saubert, who appeared in one regular-season game for the Cowboys in 2023, recording no receptions.
And while not a player, let's not forget about Seattle defensive coordinator Aden Durde, who began his NFL coaching career as an intern in Dallas in 2014 and 2015 and served as the Cowboys' defensive line coach from 2021 to 2023.