Emmitt Smith 'sick' of hearing about Cowboys Super Bowl drought, calls out franchise for lack of success

When the Dallas Cowboys come up in discussion, the conversation almost always shifts to the organization’s near 30-year drought of winning a Super Bowl. Emmitt Smith is “sick” of hearing about it.

Smith won three Super Bowls in Dallas and was a part of its last Super Bowl winning team in 1995. Over that time, the Cowboys’ division rivals have seen more success, which Smith believes is a “crying shame.”

“I’m sick of it,” Smith said on 96.7 The Ticket in Dallas. “I’m sick of it for two reasons. One, we have allowed others to come and nitpick at the star and make fun of the star and that’s what happens when you give other people, or other organizations — now all of a sudden over the last 20 years they win two Super Bowls and think they’re the best thing on the doggone planet, and everywhere I go I hear, ‘Go Birds.’ I’m sick of hearing, ‘Go Birds.’ I’m always asking where are you going? You still got a long way to go to get to us.

“That part bugs me. It bugs me because in my heart I truly believe our organization should be contending for an NFC championship and even a Super Bowl at least once or twice every decade because every team recycles every decade. So, for us not to be there over the last 30 years is a crying shame.”

Forget winning a Super Bowl. The Cowboys haven’t reached an NFC Championship Game since that 1995 season. Since then, they have just five playoff wins. The Philadelphia Eagles, meanwhile, have appeared in four Super Bowls and hoisted two Lombardi trophies. The New York Giants have two Super Bowl wins of their own while the Washington Commanders made it back to the NFC Championship Game this past season.

Cowboys beginning new era under Brian Schottenheimer

Bill Parcells couldn’t get the Cowboys over the hump in the 2000s. Jason Garrett failed throughout the 2010s and Mike McCarthy came up short over the last five seasons. Now, it’s Brian Schottenheimer‘s turn.

Like those before him, Schottenheimer will look to finally get the Cowboys back to the Super Bowl. That would certainly make Jerry Jones happy, though the Cowboys owner doesn’t spend too much time dwelling on the disappointments of the last 30 years.

“I don’t wake up in the morning saying it’s been that long since we’ve played in an NFC Championship Game. We have had good teams, we’ve had good players. It’s not at all satisfactory, but no one has shown me the answer on how to get a Super Bowl,” Jones said at the NFL Annual Owners Meeting. “I don’t sit around and dwell on that long since we have been, and I don’t even want to have a tone about it.

“I’ve got too many other things that I’m proud of and I know that we were there and it’s unbelievable that we haven’t been back.”