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The Dallas Cowboys joined the NFL in early 

1960 and made history by earning the right to 

make the playoffs. They played 56 games of 

the playoffs and won 33.

The Dallas Cowboys were the NFL's first modern-era 

expansion team. The NFL was late in awarding a 

franchise to dallas; after Lamar Hunt was rebuff in his 

efforts to acquire an NFL franchise for dallas.

January 28, 1960. This early confrontation 

between the two franchise helped to trigger 

what would become one of the more heated 

National Football League rivalries, which 

continues to this day

He became part of the group of owners that 

formed the American football league with Hunt's 

AFL franchise in Dallas known as the Texans.(later 

to become the Kansas City Chiefs).

In an effort not to cede the south to the AFL, 

the NFL awarded dallas a franchise, but not 

untill after the 1960 college draft had been 

held.

In 1967,the Cowboys finished with a 9-5 record 

and had their first playoff victory,a 52-14 rout of 

the Cleveland browns. They went on to face the 

packers in 1967 NFL championship game,with 

the winner advancing to the super bowl II.

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