Dawson was 1–0 in an AFL Championship game played before the NFL and AFL first met in the Super Bowl. Three pairs of quarterbacks faced off twice in the Super Bowl: Staubach and Bradshaw, Aikman and Kelly, and Brady and Eli Manning. In each case the same quarterback (Bradshaw, Aikman, and Manning) won both games. Dallas Cowboys 27 vs. Pittsburgh Steelers 17 on January 28th, 1996 - Full team and player stats and box score Super Bowl XXX - Dallas Cowboys vs. Pittsburgh This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. "1996 Super Bowl" redirects here. For the Super Bowl that was played at the completion of the 1996 season, see Super Bowl XXXI. 1996 National Football League championship game Super Bowl XXX Dallas Cowboys (1) (NFC) (12–4) Pittsburgh Steelers (2) (AFC) (11–5) 27 17 Head coach: Barry Game Recap and Key Highlights. Super Bowl XXX was a hard-fought game between two of the NFL’s most storied teams. The Cowboys struck first with a 3-yard rushing touchdown by Emmitt Smith in the first quarter, but the Steelers kept the game close with a field goal by Norm Johnson. The result was the same, as the Steelers prevailed 35–31. But Super Bowl X was the game that began the rivalry between the two storied franchises. The Cowboys gained a measure of revenge by defeating the Steelers 27–17 in Super Bowl XXX following the 1995 season. Box score for the Dallas Cowboys vs. Pittsburgh Steelers NFL game from January 28, 1996 on ESPN. Includes all passing, rushing and receiving stats. “The Battle of Champions,” as this classic NFL skirmish would be nicknamed, was a perfect title for the Super Bowl between the Cowboys and Steelers in a windy Orange Bowl in Miami on January 28 Jan 1996: Quarterback Troy Aikman of the Dallas Cowboys (right) throws the ball during Super Bowl XXX against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. The Cowboys won the TEMPE, Ariz. — Don’t blame those interceptions on the quarterback. And don’t credit the Dallas Cowboys’ defense for winning the Super Bowl. What happened was this: The Pittsburgh Steelers The Pittsburgh Steelers have a record of 2-1 versus the Cowboys in Super Bowls all-time. Steelers. 1/18/1976. 1-0. Super Bowl. quarterbacks with most super The Steelers and Cowboys had played in at least one Super Bowl before the 1976 title game. Pittsburgh won the Super Bowl, 16-6, a year earlier over Minnesota. Dallas won Super Bowl 6, over Miami The Super Bowl would soon start being a good game on a regular basis; and the NFC’s reign would end two seasons later with, “This one’sfor JOHN.” In the, now, 27 Super Bowls since this very Steelers/Cowboys affair (boy, how time flies), I count just FIVE that you can seriously consider to be “bad” games. The roots to the Cowboys–Steelers rivalry can be traced several years before the Cowboys played a game, and to another team entirely. Following the 1951 NFL season, New York Yanks owner Ted Collins sold his team back to the NFL due to financial difficulties competing with the New York Giants in the same market, as well as the All-America Football Conference, in which it had played, folding The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette front page Monday, Jan. 29, 1996 — the day after the Steelers lost Super Bowl XXX, 27-17, to the Dallas Cowboys in Tempe, Ariz. Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman warms up before Super Bowl XXX. Super Bowl Rewind: Super Bowl XIII, Steelers vs. Cowboys With the flux capacitors fluxing and the time circuits set to January 21, 1979The SCN Delorean has plenty of room to take us all back to another remarkable day in Pittsburgh sports history. Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys. First game: 1976 Super Bowl; Steelers won, 21-17. Rematch: 1979 Super Bowl; Steelers won, 35-31. The Steelers and Cowboys had played in at least one Super The San Francisco 49ers became the first team in the NFL to win five Super Bowls, but that wouldn’t last for long. Both contending teams in Super Bowl XXX — the Steelers and Cowboys — were also looking to add their fifth Lombardi Trophy to their trophy cases. On top of being the 30th anniversary [] 7. Aaron Rodgers vs. Ben Roethlisberger, Super Bowl XLV . Feb. 6, 2011: Packers 31, Steelers 25 Rodgers and the Packers denied Big Ben the chance at becoming the fifth quarterback to win three Pittsburgh Steelers 35 vs. Dallas Cowboys 31 on January 21st, 1979 - Full team and player stats and box score Super Bowl XIII - Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Former head coach Bill Cowher joins "NFL Now Live Super Bowl 50" to discuss his favorite moments from the 2006 Divisional game against the Indianapolis Colts and quarterback Peyton Manning, and winning Super Bowl XL.
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