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After being considered one of the top teams in the NFL for two decades, the Dallas Cowboys have failed to make the playoffs for the last three seasons. And now the Cowboys have the worst record in the NFL...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: America's Team Illusion Is Gone | 12/1/1988 | See Source »

...Cowboys have won a grand total of two games this year and have lost 11. Dallas and the once-mighty Green Bay Packers are together at the bottom of the NFL...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: America's Team Illusion Is Gone | 12/1/1988 | See Source »

...means the NFL draft system works," Landry told Sports Illustrated recently...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: America's Team Illusion Is Gone | 12/1/1988 | See Source »

This answer would be adequate if the Cowboys had made no pretenses to being anything more than your run-of-the-mill football team. It is true that the NFL's egalitarian draft system weighs heavily against perennial winners and that the lack of new talent into an organization can lead to its demise...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: America's Team Illusion Is Gone | 12/1/1988 | See Source »

...begin with, my bedroom is now a study. With great cunning, my parents waited until my junior year before they erased all vestiges of my memory. They packed away my weight set, tore down the basketball net and worst of all, gave my NFL bedsheets to charity. My pennants lay in a forlorn pile at the bottom of my closet. In their place, my father's diplomas hange with mocking pride. His desk rests serenely where I used to shoot Nerf hoops. My bed, remade and reeducated, is now his couch. It's not that I wanted a mausoleum...

Author: By Matt Pinsker, | Title: Back and Better Than Ever | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

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