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Carmen Policy: Warriors are new 'gold standard' in sports

Editor’s note: The 49ers Insider Podcast with special guest Carmen Policy will be available Tuesday. Subscribe at iTunes.

The Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers are meeting in the NBA Finals for the third consecutive year.

While that kind of two-team dominance has not occurred in a major American sporting league since the 1950s, there was something similar in the NFL in the 1990s.

The 49ers and Dallas Cowboys met in the NFC Championship games after the 1992, ’93 and ’94 seasons. The winner of those matchups produced the Super Bowl champion each season.