Welcome to Season 10, Episode 6 of the Unconventional Preview, a serious-yet-lighthearted, nostalgia-tinted look at the Patriots’ weekly matchup.
The Patriots against the Cowboys might have made a compelling Super Bowl matchup at some point over the last, oh, 25 years — “America’s Team” versus “We Are All Patriots” — but circumstances never aligned (mostly because of Dallas’s perennial underachievement), so the franchises don’t have much shared history of note.
They’ve played just 13 times, with the Patriots winning the last six. The Cowboys’ last victory came in December 1996, when they prevailed, 12-6, but all anyone remembers is Patriots rookie kicker Adam Vinatieri running down Herschel Walker on a kickoff return.