Do 49ers/Cowboys fans really view each other as rivals?

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Yup. Always will be.

Well It was dormant for almost 3 decades.

Meh, I am biased as a Seahawks fan but this just doesn’t seem like a rivalry anymore.

nuh - uhh, that was just the early 90's...holy shit

You have to be 40+ or a total geek of either team to see this rivalry. That's actually a lot of fans though.

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Yup. Absolutely hate the cowboys. Hell, I don't even want the niners to win. I just want the cowboys to lose.

I view Niners as our biggest rival. Only other NFC team with 5 super bowls. So many legendary games

As an Eagles fan I agree.

As a niners fan I had no idea cowboys were our rivals? I always assumed it was the raiders but I guess it just isn’t the same anymore when we’re not forced to share the bay

Always. Cowgirls are trash.

Yes. Division rivals, 49er and Packers (to a lesser extend) Those are the rivals. Others are just opponents

Has a team ever won the Super Bowl with a QB younger than the college natty champ QB?

Looks like there are 3 starting QBs in the playoffs that are all younger than Stetson.

Just curious.

Hasn’t been a rivalry since the mid 90s. But this game will reignite the rivalry for a whole new generation of fans. We got them last year. Let’s see what happens this year.

When I was a kid (in the late 80s early 90s) it was absolutely a thing. I recall a game in the early 90s where multiple players were ejected for a fight that broke out on the field.

It was like watching the Ravens and Bengals play now.

That said, I grew up in Chicago, so my 2 favorite teams are the Bears and whomever is currently beating the living snot out of Green Bay. I felt like a traitor 2 weeks ago uttering the phrase "Go Lions".

Roethlisberger was the youngest QB to win the superbowl, at 23. But his birthday is March 2nd, so he was nearly 24. Vince young won the championship that year and was two months older.

Edit: Vince was a year younger, so to answer your question, yes it would be a first

That would make sense. I didn't really start following football until 2005-2010ish.

And as an Eagles fan, I understand your pain. Cheering for the Commanders over the Cowboys in the last week of regular season was bittersweet.

Yeah 3 decades ago lmao....the fact they emphasized the number of faceoffs between these two when the cowshits only went to the playoffs like 3 times in 27 years....😂🤦🏽

Those 90 playoff games were amazing. Jon Madden and Pat Summerall announcing the games. Good times.

Depends how old you are. The over 35 crowd, yes. The under 35 crowd, probably not

I believe VY is a year younger than Ben

I agree. I think people saying this game will ignite the rivalry for the younger generation are wrong. Currently 28 and I had no idea this was a rivalry. It’s been too long. The younger NFL fans won’t have any idea that this is a rivalry unless it happens again and again like it did back in the day

Yep, sorry not only did the math wrong on the months, but also read the years wrong!

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Cowboys make more sense than the Raiders since they are in the same conference. Raiders and 49ers have never really played any meaningful games.

Cowboys fan here, I guess we can’t have playdates no more.

Here I was busy hating the eagles, giants and whatever team Brady is in. Now I gotta add another team.

Their parents do.

Those were your regular season rivals. In the past during the playoffs it was always red/gold vs blue/white. Lot of back and forth back in the days of young and aikman

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hah all good, brother!

Before last year, the last time they played, was in 94', this isn't a rivalry 🤣

America's team? What bull!

its one of those fan rivalries that no one on the teams currently really cares about, they might be aware of the history but without playing them all that often its hard to have a rivalry

Yep. I’m old enough to still be bitter over the 1972 NFC championship game. If Preston Riley had just held onto that ball we would’ve had our first Super Bowl….argh

Yeah, the Steve Young versus Troy Aikman duels were amazing.

I dunno. Rivalries are kinda dead between players. Social media, mega sports agencies, and the fact they've almost all played on teams or offseason workouts together has killed it. Some players have specific beef but it's not usually because of the color of their jerseys.

41 year old Niners fan here: I am loathe of Pretty Boy Carroll and the Seahawks, but I am rooting for them whenever they play the Cowboys. There will never be a sports hate as pure and distilled as we have toward Big D. Hell, as a Syracuse alum I'd sooner root for Georgetown.

The giants have 4 and are in the same division. I’d say that’s a very close second

Hatred between Raiders and 49ers fans when they were in Oakland was pretty ferocious from what I’ve seen. There weren’t many consequential/meaningful games though, yeah.

Not entirely, often divisional rivals still don't get along very well

I was at both NFC Championships in SF. Those were great times.

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💯 those 3 consecutive title matchups were basically the super bowl. Everyone knew that the winning team would win the Super Bowl. We don't really have multiple dominant teams like that anymore, much more parity these days.

Also the last of the three title matchups is the game that Troy Aikman / Michael Irvin have said they're most proud of in their professional careers. Cowboys actually lost that game but fought like hell to climb out of a huge early deficit.

Not anymore. I have a special respect for the Cowboys now because of the rivalry back then.

Amazing all the young bucks out here who don’t consider the niners and cowboys rivals

I'd agree, Eagles and Giants are probably tied for 2nd. We play the Niners so rarely that it always feels like a special big matchup

Cowboys played great against Tampa Bay. What dominance.

They are now due to lay their playoff egg.

I remember the cowboy/49er championship games in the 90s being even more exciting than the Super Bowls.

As a cowboys fan I view the 49ers as the biggest non-division rival.

Mostly gangbangers who viewed it as a territorial thing, rather than about football. Most didn’t even care about the game, just went to games to throw punches

Yup, growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s this was a huge rivalry. They played in a bunch of NFC championship games. The Catch, Jimmy Johnson’s “how bout them Cowboys” speech. When I saw this matchup come up it was like reliving my childhood all over again. I showed my 8-year-old nephew the video of The Catch and he’s been trying to recreate it in his living room much to his mother’s dismay (although it might be better than the usual catch he tries to recreate, which is Justin Jefferson’s catch against the Bills).

Go browse the hatred on the team subs

Don't forget the Steelers

I'm always down for 49ers / Cowboys games. Hate ya, Cowboys, but not as much as Seattle. <3

I’m a 36 year old Cowboy fan that is die hard and grew up in the Bay and has gotten shitty Niner fans talking shit to me for as long as I remember and still don’t have that much hate. Glad the Cowboys still live rent free in your head. It’d probably be different if the Niners were good enough to be the “team of the 90’s”

Still a loooong ways to go...

Giants fan here: it hurt my soul to cheer for Tampa this past weekend, but I'm all in for the 9ers to whoop on those dirty 'girls.

Good luck to you this Saturday.

But at least Sunday we will be cheering on the same team.

My kid bro and his friends all latched onto the Cowboys so it's made for some fun arguments over the years.

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Uh, that’s the point. They were only a rivalry before because of meeting in the playoffs 7 times before last year. 6 of them came in streaks (70,71,72 and 92,93,94) is what fueled it. The fact they you weren’t even a dirty thought yet is irrelevant.

What exactly is the point?

I don’t think our age is irrelevant. If the younger generations of NFL fans are unaware of those playoff games and don’t think about it as a rivalry then this 1 playoff game isn’t going to reignite some rivalry in the fans. And our youth is exactly the reason for that.

If we go by my dad's interpretation then every team that has beat the cowboys in a playoff game is a rival of ours lol.

It's been so long since we had any real games, I wouldn't call them a rival anymore. I would argue that our last real rivals were the Seahawks like 6 years ago.

Haha I bet. Nothing like sports to bring people together. Even rivals or dormant rivals

49er fan here..... yes and I would say the hierarchy for rivals is 1. Cowboys 2. Packers 3. Seahawks

I was a little kid when Dwight Clark made The Catch to beat the Cowboys. Even as a kid I knew what a big deal it was to beat the Cowboys.

So you were around at the time the rivalry was going on? Congrats. That’s beside my point. For people who were not around at that time, this singular game will not reignite the rivalry

ssshhh gotta let them try their cheap marketing ploy

I’m the 90s yes, since then I don’t think so. I feel like the Packers are our biggest non divisional rival lately.

I don't think it will reignite the rivalry. That only happens when it's between top teams. Back in the 1990s, the winner of Dallas vs. SF would win the SB. More recently, you have rivalries between top teams like Pats-Colts (with Brady/Manning), or maybe now Chiefs-Bengals. But there isn't the same feel here. Maybe if Dallas wins, but I suspect this game won't be very competitive (SF seems like the far better team), which means no rivalry.

My point is that it was about a decade since the Niners played the Cowboys in the playoffs by the time of Dwight Clark's Catch.

The heat has faded some, but yes. Views may vary slightly on the order (probably where to place the Rams in either era), but I think this is about right.

49ers top 5 rivalries (as of 2023, including residual historic beefs):

• Seahawks
• Packers
• Rams
• Giants
• Cowboys

If you made that list in 2000:

• Cowboys
• Packers
• Giants
• Rams
• Broncos

Doc and Timmy Tenders are reigniting the rivalry

In the under 35 crowd, no animosity towards the Cowboys, just their fanbase for being obnoxious in general.

For the under 35 Niners crowd, the main rivalry is definitely with the Seahawks. Sorry, the Bitch Pigeons.

there was an infographic showing all their stats. as far as they go, the only difference is the that Dallas has a better pass defense and San Fran has a better run defense. Their offenses are both prolific, and both of their defenses are elite. it's going to be a classic

>"Go Lions".

You must have been desperate.

It was the packers. Lesser of evils. But I nearly choked on it.

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Only in the Superbowl, as a 'boys fan, we won't have to worry about that one for a long ass time.

Brady and Purdy have one thing in common: both were thrown into the game on exceptionally good teams and were not asked to carry the team. In Brady's first years, that Pats defense was elite, and he wasn't asked to air it out like he did in later years. Purdy is in a similar situation. SF has one of the most stacked rosters in the league. It's got elite receivers, running game, defense, coaching. SF has it all. Purdy is the weak point, but he's not asked to do too much, and he's been good so far.

I mean, Kurt Warner went undrafted and literally had a movie about him called “American Underdog”.

But as a 49er fan, I hope Purdy wins it all and they make a movie about him called “Relevant: The Brock Purdy Story”. Just don’t make it a Christian propaganda film like the Kurt Warner movie.

Probably depends on your age.

I'm a 9ers fan that suffered through 4 straight years of meetings in the playoffs and only 1 win. Those 3 rings Aikman has, while well deserved, could very easily have been claimed by Young and the 9ers.

You don't forget that. Those games turned on fine margins and it's a lot more of a bitter pill to swallow when you know you're a great team but there's another, very, very, very slightly better team blocking your road.

Vikes fan here, still salty about my team but for sure rooting for the Purdy boy the rest of the way.

That interception in the endzone and Richard Shermans's expression was just amazing to watch.

Let’s go 49ers!!! Sincerely, An Eagles fan

*Mr. Relevant

Happy Vanderesch is back

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him and hanky panky really make that side of the ball elite and it allows Parsons to eat

Go 49ers

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Hell I’m a 37 year old Cowboys fan and there’s nobody I hate more than the Eagles. I’d cheer for the 9ers before I cheer for them. I hope their entire team crumbles year after year. We’ll see how I feel after this weekend though

Same. 49ers are very good right now.

11 is my spirit number

It's been great to watch too. They're all hyping him up like crazy after every play. He's as calm as a pond the whole time. The team chemistry seems unreal.

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I call them the seachickens but like your adaptation as well

Go look up TO putting the ball on the star 20 years ago. Its a rivalry. Just the stakes haven't been as high minus these last 2 years

They're also extremely intelligent. Build and arm strength get all the combine attention, but reading defenses is what makes a great quarterback.

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The year the 49ers killed the Chargers, the game against the Cowboys was pretty much the Superbowl.

Dallas has QB that has been in the league for 8 years. He had his best game in playoffs last week against a weak Bucs defense. Purdy still had better stats than Prescott in his first playoff game as a rookie. Niners by 30

I think it’s gonna be a good game for sure

Both teams are playing really well and came off great wins this past week

talk talk talk

Lol in reality it might be closer. But my biased opinion has the Niners winning this. But maybe Dallas will get a miracle

“Classic” gets thrown around a little Willy Nilly when you’re referring to a game that hasn’t happened yet

>I recall a game in the early 90s where multiple players were ejected for a fight that broke out on the field.

Even in 2000 when both teams were kinda meh and hadn't faced off in the playoffs in years, we had the hilarious T.O./George Teague theatrics

They're the toots.

The greatest game John and Pat ever called was at the Stick, and it must have been a blowout because I don't know why else they'd give five minutes of airtime for it during the game.

John cut to the sea lions at Pier 39, and was using the yellow pen to mark how one sea lion would get shoved off the dock, but swim around this way or that way and jump back on, and shove someone else off the dock. And Pat characteristically humored him. For five minutes, I'm telling you. It was fantastic.

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As a bills fan, I cannot remember any “Super Bowl” at all in the 90’s. They called them off for a while in the 90s because of a strike or something. Do not fact check me.

I’ll take your word for it

From the Cowboy perspective:

In the under 35 crowd, no animosity towards the Niners, just their fanbase for being obnoxious in general.

For the under 35 Cowboys crowd, the main rivalry is definitely with the Cowboys. Sorry, the Cowpies. (Yes, Dez caught it and Romo doesn't deserve the slander.)

As a lifelong Cowboys fan (27) how can you be a rival to anyone when you literally always lose? We can be rivals with the Commies because they never win either but damn can we win one more time in my life?? I was still shitting myself the first time it happened and I will probably shit myself again if I ever live to see the day we win another one.

it can be a classic to me regardless.

Yeah I live 40 mins away from Santa Clara and as a Cowboy fan I could tell you it's a huge rivalry. There's a lot of cowboy fans here.

He also at the time posted the worst QB rating ever by a QB in the Super Bowl. He was 9 for 21, 123 yards, with 1TD/2INT, for a 22.6 rating.

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Niners win by 20

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I definitely think this upcoming one has a chance at being more exciting than this year's super bowl.

That's like the year the Colts beat the Patriots in the AFC championship game. Then they went on to beat the bears in a rainy game that no one really fucking remembers, except for Prince everyone remembers Prince in the rain.

>Prince in the purple rain

FTFY

Nah own it. Loved watching Kelly even tho my Dolphins were denied. 4 straight AFC championships is awesome.

Biased as a 49er’s fan growing up, but I can’t think of a better team to be a fan of at the time . The Montana/Young/Rice trinity was so explosive .

It CAN….but it isn’t. Being whelmed is okay

You're right, I don't remember that SB at all but I remember Prince's halftime show!

Is there anything we can do?

Prince: can you make it rain harder?

9ers gonna crush the cowgirls this time

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The year the Seahawks killed the Broncos, it was really that SF/SEA NFC Championship Game that ended with the Sherman pick that settled it all.

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Even as a Colts fan, all I remember about that game was Hester running back the opening kickoff for a TD.

Because we all went "I can't believe we beat the Patriots just to fuck up against this awful Bears team."

Luckily, the Bears were exactly as bad as we thought they were.

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Their purpose is to lose badly and therefore make Brady look even more washed

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They were who you thought they were. But this time you didn’t let them off the hook.

Well, the Giants/Bills Super Bowl was pretty good till the end… I rewatch the ending a couple years back and all I could think of is how slow the Bills offense looked in the last the 2 minutes.

49ers wit the 🏆

…and that ‘legendary combo’ won how many superbowl s?

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I moved into a rented industrial warehouse in Dallas two days before Super Bowl XXVII - Dallas Cowboys vs. Buffalo Bills - January 31st, 1993. It was a Friday afternoon the day I took the lease for the 3000 sf warehouse on the edge of Dallas and Las Colinas. I signed the contract, got the keys, as I was leaving the office, the building owner informed me that teakwood pool furniture was stored in the back corner of the building, and that someone would be by Monday morning to pick it up, he also said that the furniture belonged to Troy Aikman, and the chairs had just been stripped and reconditioned. I told him that Monday would be fine to pick them up and not to worry about them being there until Monday. I left his office pretending not be excited that Aikman’s pool furniture will be in my house during the Super Bowl. (I lived there for six months, threw raves and rented space to my art director friends.) Needless to say we watched the game in Aikman’s chairs.

Niners are gonna destroy them

Don't look now but there's a 75% chance the Bills will play a team from the NFC East if they make it.

It was a 90s thing

Bang bang.

As a Chicago fan, I can only wish he wanted to crown our asses ;(

Yeah, why would two teams that were.only separated by a bridge have a rivalry, that makes no sense.

If anyone interested in fixed matches, they can dm me. i have a contact and proofs

Somehow, every team the Cowboys play is a rival lol

I’m nervous this will be a repeat of the last time we faced the Niners, but I’m optimistic. If Parsons can really make some noise on defense, the rest of the defensive line should eat well.

Also, Dak is going to have to get it going early on. My dude gets lost if he doesn’t start to put it together at some point early in the game.

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I remember that game because I was living in Japan and my grandmother was a huge Tory Aikman fan. Since Super Bowl Sunday in the states was early Monday, my grandmother made us stay home from school to watch it. I didn’t remember the outcome, I remember being super excited because I wasn’t at school.

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Cowboys won, they always won in 90s, especially when playing the bills.

I can’t wait until Drop Thurdy continues to play like this long enough that this L of a take finally goes away. He’s undefeated for basically half of the season. His stats are the best of any qb over that stretch. Anybody who is actually watching has seen him make plays and show talent. If a high draft pick rookie qb did over the first 7 games of a season what bcb has done over these 7 people would be calling him a franchise qb. But because people can’t believe in mr. Irrelevant, he’s just a “system qb”.

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Cowboys rivalries, ranked:

Eagles

Washington

Giants

Packers

49ers

Steelers

Texans and Saints honorable mention for proximity

How many people still consider the Steelers and Raiders as rivals? Are there Ravens fans that refuse to use the word "Colts" when referring to the football team in Indianapolis?

I’d really love to complete that sweep GO BIRDS

The NFC is at its best when these two teams play in the playoffs.