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This was the third straight season that the Cowboys and 49ers met in the NFC Championship Game, with Dallas winning the first two conference title games. San Francisco quarterback Steve Young still faced the pressure of "never being able to win the big ones", while Dallas quarterback Troy Aikman entered the game with a 7–0 win–loss record ...
Watters, who rushed for over 100 yards and scored five touchdowns in the divisional round, had just 12 carries for 37 yards. This was the first NFC Championship Game featuring a rematch between both teams from the previous year since the 1971 season. Incidentally, that game also involved Cowboys defeating the 49ers for the second year in a row.
For the third consecutive season, the 49ers met the Cowboys in the NFC Championship Game. From the mid-1980s until the latter 1990s, the AFC was widely regarded as the NFL's weaker conference. At the time of this conference championship game, AFC teams had lost the previous 10 Super Bowls in a row, starting with Super Bowl XIX after the 1984 season
The Cowboys' 12–4 regular-season record earned them the #2 seed and a first-round bye in the playoffs. They defeated the Green Bay Packers in the divisional-round playoff game at Texas Stadium. They then traveled to Candlestick Park to face the San Francisco 49ers for the third straight time in as many years in the NFC Championship game. Down ...
The 1970 NFC champion Dallas Cowboys lost the first Super Bowl played after the merger, but the 1971 Cowboys were the first NFC team to win the Super Bowl. The NFC had a streak in which its champion won 13 consecutive Super Bowls, from the 1984 NFC champion San Francisco 49ers through the 1996 NFC champion Green Bay Packers.
Thirteen years later, the 49ers and Cowboys would meet again for the NFC championship after the 1994 season, this time with one of the greatest collections of talent on a single field in NFL history.
The Catch was the game-winning touchdown reception in the 1981 NFC Championship Game played between the Dallas Cowboys and the eventual Super Bowl XVI champion San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park on January 10, 1982, as part of the 1981–82 NFL playoffs. With 58 seconds left in the game, the 49ers faced 3rd down and 3 yards to gain on the ...
Lost NFC Championship 20–30 Steve Young (MVP, OPOY) [55] [56] 1993: 1993: NFL NFC West ^ 1st ^ 10 6 0 Won Divisional Playoffs 44–3 Lost NFC Championship (at Cowboys) 21–38 Jerry Rice Dana Stubblefield [57] [58] 1994: 1994: NFL † NFC * West ^ 1st ^ 13 3 0 Won Divisional Playoffs 44–15 Won NFC Championship 38–28