The Cowboys also have three former players in the AFC Championship, all playing for the Buffalo Bills. Those players are Amari Cooper, Connor McGovern, and Jordan Phillips. The Cowboys themselves have not made it to the NFC Championship since 1995, marking the longest drought in the NFC.

With the Commanders advancing in the postseason, the Cowboys now have the longest NFC Championship Game drought in NFL history.

With Saturday’s win over the Detroit Lions, the Washington Commanders snapped the NFC’s longest active championship game drought and passed that designation to another team that hasn’t reached the NFL’s final four since the ’90s, the Dallas Cowboys.

Now that the Commanders have reached this playoff feat, a new team takes the unfortunate streak since last making an NFC championship, and it happens to be the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys haven't reached the conference title game since the 1995 season. Every other NFC team has reached the title game since 1996.

The Eagles held on against the turnover-happy Rams on Sunday to advance to the NFC championship game for the second time in three seasons.

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After the Washington Commanders beat the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles dominated the Los Angeles Rams, the two NFC East teams will face off in the NFC Championship game this Sunday.