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When Troy Aikman acknowledged pride in a loss to the 49ers

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when one thinks of Troy Aikman and the great triumphs of his career, it is inevitable to remember the victory of the Cowboys about the 49ers in the championship game from NFC 1992. However, the former quarterback was recently asked Dallas about the moment that marked his career as the proudest and the former player appealed for a loss to the 49ers!

Rather than pick one of the team’s many victories in the 1990s, Aikman had as his proudest moment the Cowboys’ 38-28 loss to San Francisco in the 1994 NFC Championship Game..

At that time, Dallas was trying to become the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowls and finally failed. In that game they lost 21-0 in the first quarter and 31-14 at halftime and never managed to come back. Even if Aikman he remembers her for the way the Cowboys showed some of their greatness as a team.

“It’s the game I’m most proud of, strange as it sounds”said the quarterback of the Hall of Fame in a report with NFL Films. “I am proud of the way we responded, and I think we showed the football world why we had been champions.”

This weekend Dallas and San Francisco meet in the wild card round from NFL and the fans of both teams in Mexico expect one of those epic duels like in the 80s and 90s.

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For 1992, San Francisco was still considered one of the elite teams in the NFL because he had the prestige of having achieved 4 Super Bowls in the 1980s. However, he ran into Aikman and a great night of Dallas Cowboys.

Still present is Aikman’s 70-yard completion to Alvin Harper that was decisive for the Cowboys, who ultimately won 30-20. After beating the 49ers, Dallas defeated the Bills to win the franchise’s first Super Bowl in 15 years.

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