The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team located in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the leagues National Football Conference (NFC) East division.
History
1960s Prior to the formation of the Dallas Cowboys, there had not been an NFL team south of Washington, D.C. since the Dallas Texans folded in 1952. Oilman Clint Murchison Jr. had been trying to get an NFL expansion team in Dallas (as was Lamar Hunt – who ended up with an AFL franchise), but George Preston Marshall, owner of the Washington Redskins, had a monopoly in the South.