Things That Didn't Exist When the Cowboys Last Won a Super Bowl

Philly Sports and Culture Writer

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Long, long ago, Dallas Cowboys fans used to make fun of the Eagles for not having a championship in the Super Bowl era.

The Eagles had championships before the Super Bowl, of course. But in Cowboys fans' minds, those didn't count because they were so old.

Well. Guess what.

It's been close to 30 years since Dallas won a Super Bowl. Here's an inexhaustive list of things that didn't exist on January 28, 1996:

- DVD players

- Google

- Pokemon

- USB flash drives

- The Daily Show

- Everybody Loves Raymond

- Jalen Hurts

- Saquon Barkley

- Camera phones

- Xbox

- The Baltimore Ravens

- The Houston Texans

- King of the Hill

- Sabrina Carpenter

- The Euro (currency)

- CeeDee Lamb

- Facebook

- Nintendo 64

- Happy Gilmore

- Febreze

- Tamagatchi

- Bryson Stott

- Bluetooth

- South Park

- YouTube

- Big Mouth Billy Bass

- The Arizona Diamondbacks

- The Tampa Bay Rays

- Scream (the movie)

- Buffy the Vampire Slayer

- Micah Parsons

- Windows 98

- Billie Eilish

- Harry Potter

- Tyrese Maxey

- All but three of the Star Wars movies

- Dexter's Laboratory

- Matvei Michkov

- Blue's Clues

- Ice Spice

- Tom Holland

- Toyota Prius

- Cadillac Escalade

- Dawson's Creek

- That '70s Show

- Titanic (the movie)

- Titanic (the real thing, probably)

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John Foley

Before joining OnPattison.com, John Foley was a Phillies beat writer for PHLY Sports and the founder of a popular independent Phillies newsletter. He has provided nontraditional local sports coverage since 2013. Foley grew up in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. He's a proud product of the Philadelphia public school system, a Penn State grad, and a Georgetown Law alum. A licensed attorney, he sits on the board of the Papermill Food Hub, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping families in need throughout the city. You can read his silly little tweets at @2008philz.