Cowboys Trolled by NFL Fans for Conference Championship Drought After Commanders Win

Aside from Detroit Lions fans, no other fanbase was more angry than the Dallas Cowboys' to see the Washington Commanders reach the NFC title game.

Beyond the fact the Commanders are a division rival with a head coach who was on Dallas' staff last season, their victory meant the Cowboys now have the longest conference championship drought of any NFC team.

That fact wasn't lost on people. It's particularly damning of the Cowboys because the Commanders were one of the NFL's most mediocre and dysfunctional franchises not that long ago.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has been the one common denominator during a barren stretch that extends for nearly 30 years.

Hiring Jimmy Johnson as head coach in 1989 was a masterstroke that resulted in two Super Bowl titles and indirectly led to a third. Since then, Jones has been steering the ship into iceberg after iceberg and fans are fed up.

The Cowboys are guaranteed of having a new coach next season after Mike McCarthy's contract expired, but their followers won't be too optimistic that anything improves.

The roster isn't in a great place. Quarterback Dak Prescott is coming off a season-ending injury, his second in five years. And there's Jones looming over everything.

Organizations with bad ownership situations can overcome that on the field. The Cincinnati Bengals, routinely a punching bag under Mike Brown, reached the Super Bowl in 2021 and advanced to the AFC title game in 2022.

But there's no question Jones' presence is to the detriment of the Cowboys as they try to achieve their sizable ambitions.