After three decades of stumbling worse than the Cowboys, Washington and QB Jayden Daniels have hit the big time.

The Dallas Cowboys now own the longest NFC Championship drought after the Washington Commanders punched their ticket to the conference title game on Saturday night.

The 2024 playoffs have reinforced almost three decades of futility that has made the Dallas Cowboys the laughingstock of the NFL. | From @BenGrimaldi

They may be "America's Team," but it's been a long time since the Dallas Cowboys played in front of the country in an NFC Championship Game. In fact, no NFC team has had a longer NFC title game drought than the Cowboys by virtue of the Washington Commanders' shocking upset win over the Detroit Lions on Saturday night in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.

The Commanders punched their ticket to the NFL's version of the Final Four, their first appearance there since the 1991 season.

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.

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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.

Liam Coen’s decision to withdraw his name from consideration for Jacksonville’s head coaching position and sign a new contract to remain the offensive coordinator in Tampa Bay didn’t last long.

Here are the teams with the most NFC Championship Game wins, losses and appearances ahead of this year's matchup between the Commanders and Eagles.