God help us all if ESPN ever witnesses and covers the Dallas Cowboys actually playing in their first Super Bowl since 1996.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, so naturally, ESPN and First Take were out in San Francisco talking about the Cowboys on Thursday morning. More importantly, they were talking about whether the 7-9-1 Cowboys have seen their Super Bowl window close.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually believe that Dallas is starting a brand-new Super Bowl window. I honestly do.\u201d \u2013 Dan Orlovsky on the Dallas Cowboys during ESPN\u2019s coverage of Super Bowl LX pic.twitter.com\/mHgtOqrPik<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) February 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d said Dan Orlovsky. \u201cI actually believe Dallas is starting a brand-new Super Bowl window. I honestly do\u2026I think Dak Prescott is going to start a second chapter in his career in the way that we\u2019ve seen some quarterbacks that are in their tenth-plus season go into\u2026I honestly believe the Cowboys will get back to Super Bowl relevancy very quickly and that Super Bowl window is very much so going to be open in 2026 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n The Cowboys are the only NFC team that hasn\u2019t been to a conference championship game in the last 30 years. If they get back to Super Bowl relevancy, it hasn\u2019t been quickly. Yet here\u2019s ESPN, a few days before the Super Bowl, talking about the Cowboys\u2019 Super Bowl window as if it\u2019s wide open.\u00a0 At least they\u2019re talking about the Cowboys\u2019 championship window, not LeBron\u2019s.<\/p>\n With ESPN and ABC having the rights to Super Bowl LXI next year, they should only hope the Cowboys are entering a window of Super Bowl relevancy. It might sound terrible to non-Cowboys fans. But if ESPN is going to talk about the Cowboys, whether they\u2019re in the Super Bowl or not, isn\u2019t it better to have them talking about the game than these manufactured topics?<\/p>\n There are two teams that still have their Super Bowl windows open this season. That would be the two teams who are facing off in Santa Clara, California, for Super Bowl LX on Sunday: Seattle and New England. But when a Super Bowl featuring a quarterback matchup of Drake Maye and Sam Darnold doesn\u2019t have enough of a lure to fill two weeks of content, ESPN finds reasons to talk about the Cowboys<\/a>. Because even when the Cowboys aren\u2019t relevant on the field, they\u2019re always relevant off it.<\/p>\n \t