After the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks won their respective conference championships on Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys’ hideous droughts painfully continue. It’s been 30 years since the Cowboys won a Super Bowl, and 15 since they hosted one … with no end in sight.
Which will happen next: The Cowboys winning a Super Bowl or merely hosting one?
As the Patriots and Seahawks begin the two-week build to Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, Cowboys fans are left with only fond-but-fading memories. They lost won the championship in XXX in 1996 – the 30th anniversary is Wednesday – and only hosted it once – XLV in 2011.
Considering Dallas missed the playoffs after a 7-9-1 season and the crowded future Super Bowl calendar, it’s difficult to envision either happening again any time soon. In 2027, the title game will be played at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, 2028 the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and in 2029 – Super Bowl LXIII – Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium and Nashville’s new Nissan Stadium are apparently the leading candidates. The Jacksonville Jaguars, Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Commanders and Chicago Bears are also in talks or are already in the process of building new stadiums.
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The Super Bowl at then-Cowboys Stadium was a disaster, plagued by a winter storm that snarled transportation and injured seven people when ice fell from the roof. There was also a ticket scandal that owner Jerry Jones eventually admitted was a “seating error” during a lawsuit in which the league settled out of court with disgruntled fans.
“I want another Super Bowl here and we should … we deserve it,” Jones said during a recent press conference trumpeting AT&T Stadium’s hosting of the 2026 World Cup. “We want to fit it in when it works for us. Sometimes the criteria that go along with it are just more than what we want to do. It just doesn’t fit for us right now.”
The Cowboys remain one of the NFL’s most popular franchises, and AT&T Stadium is one of the world’s most recognizable sports venues. But at this point neither are remotely connected to the Super Bowl.
