FRISCO, Texas -- Twenty-seven years and counting.
With their 19-12 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday in the divisional round of the playoffs, the Dallas Cowboys’ Super Bowl drought is now at 27 years.
The shadow of the 1990s Cowboys teams that won three Super Bowls in a four-year span just keeps growing, just as the burden does for current players to live up to those expectations -- whether they want to admit it or not.
The story has become the same. The chapters don’t change. The only difference in the sentences are the names: Tony Romo to Dak Prescott.