Revenge! Cowboys Own 2nd-Longest NFC Playoff Drought With Lions Win Over Bucs
FRISCO - The Detroit Lions wanted revenge of some sort for their controversial late-season loss at the Dallas Cowboys. On Sunday they achieved it in two ways.
One, and most immediately, they are headed to the NFC Championship Game thanks to a ... win over Tampa Bay.
Two, not only is Dallas sitting at home watching as the Lions advance - even though the Cowboys were the No. 2 seed and the Lions the No. 3 seed - the Cowboys are sitting at home watching as part of a drought that is now the conference's second-longest.
The Lions last week dispatched the Rams in a 24-23 nailbiter while Dallas was getting crushed by the upstart Packers 48-32. The Packers this weekend lost at San Francisco, and now it will be the 49ers hosting the Lions in the NFC Championship Game next weekend.
Good for the Lions and their fans, as they have never won a Super Bowl - unlike Dallas, which has its rich history in that department.
But the Cowboys haven't been that good - good enough to even advance to the NFC Championship Game - since the 1995 season. And now that means only Washington (1991) has been absent from that game for a longer time period that "America's Team.''
This season the Lions won the NFC North for literally the first time ever and now they have hhese two playoff wins - the first for Detroit since they defeated the Cowboys at the end of the 1991 season.
That loss set up a Dallas dynasty. ... that now seems a long, long time ago.
The Lions have their NFC title game berth. And they have their revenge over Dallas.
