The Cowboys enter Wild Card weekend trying to break a crucial drought, as the team hasn’t won a road playoff game since January 17, 1993. In that game, Troy Aikman, Emmett Smith and Michael Irvin beat the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game.
Instead of shying away from that fact, Mike McCarthy is trying to use it as motivation. The Cowboys head coach requested baby pictures from every player on the team who was alive for that game, as only 10 players were born before the game took place.
The oldest players on the team includes three of the five starting offensive lineman, newly signed wide receiver T.