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Professional American football team, The Dallas Cowboys are based in the Dallas, Texas metropolitan area. They joined the NFL as an expansion team of 1960. Forbes Magazine has stated Cowboys as one of the most valuable sports team in North America. Approximately at $1.1 billion, second only to the Washington Redskins. One of the wealthiest teams in the NFL, they generate almost $250 million in revenue per-year. The Cowboys hold the league records for consecutive winning seasons and most seasons with at least 10 wins. The most post season appearances has been earned by the team along with the most appearances in the NFC Championship Game and the most Super Bowl appearances. The first team in NFL history to win 3 Super Bowls in just 4 years are Cowboys. They also are tied with the San Francisco 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers for having the most Super Bowl wins .

When they qualified for the playoffs 24 times (80%), played in 16 NFC Championship Games and took the field for 8 Super Bowls, it was then that most of the team's success occurred during their 30-year period. The Cowboys finished with a 9-5 record and their first playoff victory: a 52-14 affair over the Cleveland Browns in 1967. The Cowboys on a one-yard quarterback sneak by Packers quarterback Bart Starr lost 21-17 which would later be come to known as the "Ice Bowl." The Cowboys popularity nationwide through the televised appearances on Thanksgiving Day games beginning in 1966 helped them cater a wide range of audience.

The glorious days of the Cowboys gradually came to an end in the 1970s. During the NFC Championship game in the 1981-1982, the Cowboys lost to the San Francisco 49ers on a last-second touchdown pass from Joe Montana to Dwight Clark. 0s.Dallas Cowboys was purchased from Murchison in 1984 by H.R. "Bum" Bright. The following seasons got progressively worse. Cowboys was sold to Jerry Jones on February 25, 1989. Cowboys drafted Emmitt Smith and the trifecta of Aikman, in 1990. The Cowboys finished 13-3 in 1992 and exacted their revenge on the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game, 30-20. 1995 got the Cowboys to the playoffs where they eventually defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-17 in Super Bowl XXX.

The glorious days of the Cowboys began to fade as free agency and injuries took their toll. Jerry Jones was blamed by many fans and media for the team's ill which he proved to be wrong in 2003 when Cowboys became a surprise team of the 2003 season. The 2004 season was one of turmoil since injuries and persistent penalty problems hobbled the Cowboys. A vote was passed in the Arlington, Texas in November 2004 to build a new football stadium for the Cowboys in the city. The team has signed several high profile players, including Mike Vanderjagt, Akin Ayodele, Jason Fabin, Kyle Kosier and Terrell Owens, during the 2006 off season. After thirty-eight years in Irving, the team will start playing at the new site in 2009.