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.

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.

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

Good luck to you this Saturday.

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

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.

Still a loooong ways to go...

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”

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

Don't forget the Steelers

Go browse the hatred on the team subs

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).

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

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

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

Cowboys played great against Tampa Bay. What dominance.

They are now due to lay their playoff egg.

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

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

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

💯 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.

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

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

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.

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