The Dallas Cowboys haven’t won a Super Bowl since its 30th iteration in 1995. But team owner and general manager Jerry Jones just wants to remind everyone that the Buffalo Bills’ title drought runs much longer.
The recently released Netflix docuseries about Jones’ ownership of the Cowboys has an episode dedicated to Dallas’ 29-year span without another Super Bowl championship. Throughout the drought, Jones has remained in control as the head of the front office in addition to his ownership duties.
In an exclusive interview with USA TODAY Sports’ Jarrett Bell, Jones flipped the script on his critics by throwing the Bills under the bus.
‘How long has it been since Buffalo won the Super Bowl?’ Jones said. ‘Buffalo hasn’t been chopped liver. They’re solid. They’re probably in the top third of the NFL.’
The Bills have won the AFC championship four times since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. All four of the titles were in consecutive years between 1990 and 1993. All four times, they lost the ensuing Super Bowl, including twice in a row against Jones’ Cowboys in Super Bowls 27 and 28 (following the 1992 and ’93 seasons, respectively).
Jones said he remains confident that his approach as Dallas’ head of personnel decisions will eventually lead to a championship.
‘I just can’t get as convicted that the way we’re doing it, that our approach to trying to win a Super Bowl, that that needs to change,’ Jones said. ‘I guess that’s why I’m so defensive.’
The Cowboys won 12 games in each of the 2022 and 2023 seasons before losing in the divisional round in 2022 and wild-card round in 2023. In 2024, Dallas finished with a 7-10 record as it dealt with injuries to some of its star players, including a season-ending hamstring injury to quarterback Dak Prescott.
The Bills have won five straight AFC East titles, dating back to 2020, and haven’t won fewer than 11 games in a season over that stretch. However, Buffalo also hasn’t returned to a Super Bowl since that last AFC title in 1993. Four times in the last five years, they’ve fallen to the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs, including twice in the AFC title game.
