“They can’t stop us!” Michael Irvin hollered on the Dallas sideline as the Cowboys began to shake off both their butterflies and the seasoned Buffalo Bills on a picturesque afternoon in Pasadena at the 1993 Super Bowl.
Nobody could stop the Cowboys, save for the Cowboys themselves as egos would eventually get in the way of the budding gridiron empire.
Those fissures were more than a year away, however, and on this day at the Rose Bowl the youngest and fastest team in the NFL would complete a remarkable turnaround from the 1-15 and 3-13 seasons that began the Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson era, and hand Buffalo an unprecedented third consecutive Super Bowl loss.
Quicker than anybody could have imagined, Johnson and Jones would reap the rewards of deft drafts and 46 trades, most notably the Hershel Walker deal that helped transform Dallas into a dynasty in the mid-1990s.
