It’s Dallas week in Philadelphia, and while the Cowboys are useless and hardly a rival these days, we’re pumped for the defending champion Eagles, who will raise the Super Bowl banner in front of Jerry Jones’ dumb face on Thursday night at Lincoln Financial Field.
In lieu of a column about the Dallas/Philly rivalry, which has been beaten to death, we last year produced a list of 25 things to take place since the Cowboys last won it all. That was back on January 28th, 1996, when kids were playing video games on their brand new Nintendo 64 consoles. In the 29 years since, Dem Boyz have won four playoffs games and lost 13.
In honor of Jerry Jones and company now holding the NFC’s longest Super Bowl appearance drought, we’ve added 75 more items to our list, creating the ultimate list of 100 things that have happened since the Cowboys’ last reached the summit:
- Tiger Woods won 15 major golf championships.
- Brett Favre retired, unretired, and then retired again.
- The “smart phone” was invented.
- Netflix mailed you DVDs in a little red envelope.
- We watched every season of Breaking Bad, The Wire, and The Sopranos.
- The final episode of Seinfeld aired.
- The Chicago Cubs won their first World Series in 108 years, ending a drought that began when the Ottoman Empire was still in power.
- Zaire became the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Major League Soccer expanded from 10 teams to 30 teams.
- The United Kingdom handed Hong Kong to China.
- Portugal handed Macau to China.
- Randall Cunningham led the Vikings to a 15-1 season and NFC Championship Game appearance.
- Latrell Sprewell and John Starks went back-to-back seasons as the Golden State Warriors’ leading scorer.
- J.K. Rowling published the first Harry Potter book.
- George Lucas directed a brand-new Star Wars film called The Phantom Menace.
- Tupac Shakur released the heralded All Eyez on Me record.
- The Rams left St. Louis, returned to L.A., and won a Super Bowl.
- Amazon shifted from online bookstore to trillion-dollar company.
- Nintendo put out a groundbreaking game called The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
- The Bears traded a first round draft pick for Rick Mirer.
- Y2K
- Mark McGwire broke Sammy Sosa’s single-season home run record.
- A new TV show called South Park made its debut.
- A new device hit the market: the DVD player.
- Limp Bizkit and Korn dethroned NSYNC and The Backstreet Boys on Total Request Live.
- Rage Against the Machine’s bass player climbed the MTV Video Music Awards set to protest Limp Bizkit winning “Best Rock Video.”
- The Phillies traded Curt Schilling to the Diamondbacks for Travis Lee, Omar Daal, Vicente Padilla, and Nelson Figueroa.
- Regis Philbin hosted a show called Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
- Trent Klatt scored 24 goals in a single Flyers season.
- Johnny Davis coached the...
Crossing Broad
