It's been nearly three decades since the Cowboys last made the NFC championship game. They now have the longest title game drought in the conference.

That it is a “shocker” that the Lions of all teams will not be in the NFC Championship Game is still quite the reality to live in. Detroit has significantly turned around their culture and finally reached the penultimate game of the season last year.

The world was a different place the last time the Washington Commanders played in the NFC Championship Game -- January 1992.

That’s right, dearest readers. Jerry Jones’ Dallas Cowboys, the one and only “America’s Team,” are the only franchise to lose to a No. 7 seed in half a decade. And not only did the Cowboys lose to the 2023 Packers, they also got blown out of the water in a 48-32 game where they barely bothered to show up: