Best Ever Win Against: Dallas Cowboys

If pressed to rank them, I’d have to put 2006 slightly ahead of the rest. The dynamics of both teams before that season and leading up the game make it so.

In second, I’d have to say 1988, which was Morten Andersen’s walk-off field goal game. Tom Landry was already on his way out, in a way, but a few pieces of Jimmy Johnson’s eventual Super Bowl teams were already in place, plus Herschel Walker was still there, as well as “Too Tall” Jones.

In third, in a game only football history nerds like me would remember to put here, the 1971 game in Tulane Stadium that featured rookie Archie Manning against rookie-enough Roger Staubach. The Saints won that day and wouldn’t beat the Cowboys again for another 17 years (until Morten’s walk-off field goal, to be exact).