In 1993, Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” was the number one song in the country, Jurassic Park became the highest grossing film of all time, and the Dallas Cowboys would go on to win their second of back-to-back Super Bowls.
What great times those were.
It also happens to be the moment the NFL started using the franchise tag to secure the services of a player for one season at a price determined by averaging the top five contracts at that player’s position. Since it made it’s debut 27 years ago, the Cowboys have slapped the tag on one of their players eight different times, with six of them occurring since 2012, including each of the last three years.