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FRISCO, Texas — Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin, Larry Allen, Darren Woodson and Charles Haley. What do all those names have in common? They were were the star-studded core of the Dallas Cowboys’ 1990s dynasty teams that won three Super Bowls in a four-season span whose contributions to that run resulted in being inducted into the team’s Ring of Honor.
However, one name has been missing from that Ring of Honor group for a long time: Hall of Fame head coach Jimmy Johnson. At halftime on Saturday night against the NFC North champion Detroit Lions, Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones will welcome his 1990s co-architect into the team’s Ring of Honor three years after he was named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2020.
The first coach to win a college national title and a Super Bowl, Johnson is the person many point to as more responsible for the Cowboys’ 1990s dynasty than Jones, a distinction that broke the two apart for decades. Johnson oversaw the fastest turnaround in NFL history, as the Cowboys went from being a 1-15 outfit in 1989 to back-to-back Super Bowl champions just three years later in the 1992 season. An extremely innovative coach, Johnson used trades, a whopping 51 total at the time, and an ahead of the curve draft value chart to engineer the quickest turnaround in NFL history. He famously traded Herschel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings for a bounty of picks that helped build the Cowboys’ Super Bowl rosters.
Johnson’s Cowboys repeated as champions in 1993 before shockingly stepping away just months later with there being controversy over whether he resigned or if Jones fired him. Dallas won its third and most recent Super Bowl two years later in 1995 with a roster that was mostly comprised of Johnson’s players, but Barry Switzer was the head coach. The Cowboys haven’t reached as far as the NFC Championship Game since.
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2023-12-29 13:31:40
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