Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Teams: The Cards of Every Championship Era
Five titles, eight appearances, and three completely different card markets. Here is every Cowboys Super Bowl roster, the era its cards came from, and the names worth collecting off each one.
1960
Founded
5
Super Bowl titles
8
Super Bowl appearances
9
Player hubs here
A Cowboys collection is usually built around a championship team, because that is how fans remember the franchise — and the era of the title decides what you are actually buying. The 1970s teams (Super Bowls V, VI, X, XII, XIII) are pure vintage Topps: small print runs, low survival, and centering that separates a clean copy from a common one. The 1990s dynasty (XXVII, XXVIII, XXX) landed in the middle of the junk-wax boom, when Topps was joined by Score, Pro Set, and Upper Deck and print runs went vertical — so those cards are everywhere raw and grade is the entire story. The current roster has no title yet, but it sits in the modern licensed era where numbered parallels and on-card autographs carry the value instead of base cards.
We name real teams, seasons, sets, and players only — never invented card numbers, print runs, or pop counts. To identify a specific card in hand, start with the era-by-era set guide or the identify-and-price walkthrough.
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Every Cowboys Super Bowl team, season by season
Season shown is the NFL season played; each Super Bowl was contested the following January. Linked names have a full card guide on this site.
| Season | Super Bowl | Result | Names collectors chase |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | V | Lost 13–16 vs Baltimore Colts | Bob Lilly, Chuck Howley, Mel Renfro |
| 1971 | VI | Won 24–3 vs Miami Dolphins | Roger Staubach, Bob Lilly, Bob Hayes |
| 1975 | X | Lost 17–21 vs Pittsburgh Steelers | Roger Staubach, Drew Pearson, Randy White |
| 1977 | XII | Won 27–10 vs Denver Broncos | Tony Dorsett, Roger Staubach, Randy White |
| 1978 | XIII | Lost 31–35 vs Pittsburgh Steelers | Tony Dorsett, Roger Staubach |
| 1992 | XXVII | Won 52–17 vs Buffalo Bills | Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin |
| 1993 | XXVIII | Won 30–13 vs Buffalo Bills | Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin |
| 1995 | XXX | Won 27–17 vs Pittsburgh Steelers | Deion Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin |
Names without a link are covered in the Cowboys Hall of Famers card reference, which maps all 21 Canton Cowboys to the licensing era their cards came from.
Cowboys Super Bowl MVPs
A championship MVP is the shorthand collectors use to rank the names off a title team.
Harvey Martin & Randy White (co-MVPs)
Larry Brown
The three Cowboys card eras
Same franchise, three different things to buy.
Vintage Topps
The Landry-era title teams. Print runs were small and survival rates lower, so scarcity and centering set the price. Roger Staubach's 1972 Topps rookie and Tony Dorsett's 1978 Topps rookie anchor the era. One trap to know: Topps did not hold the NFL licence from 1964 to 1967 — Philadelphia Gum did — so mid-1960s Cowboys have first-year cards outside the Topps run.
The dynasty, in junk wax
Three titles in four years, produced during the biggest print runs in hobby history — Topps joined by Score, Pro Set, and Upper Deck. Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin (1989), Emmitt Smith (1990), and Deion Sanders (1989 — buy the football card, he was two-sport) are common raw. Graded copies are the whole game.
The modern licensed era
No title yet, but the deepest product shelf the franchise has ever had. Dak Prescott (2016), CeeDee Lamb (2020), and Micah Parsons (2021) arrived under Panini's exclusive, so value lives in numbered parallels and on-card autos rather than base cards. From the 2026 season the licence moves to Topps under Fanatics — see the Prizm and Donruss overviews.
The franchise hub
Team-level history, the featured-player roster, and the full card landscape.
Go deeper
This page answers "which team" — these answer "which player", "which set", and "what's it worth".
Dallas Cowboys Cards Guide
The full team hub — modern core, legends, and where each market actually trades.
IndexCowboys Player Card Guides
One hub per Cowboy, plus a rookie-card-year table covering every era.
ReferenceCowboys Hall of Famers: Card Reference
All 21 Cowboys in Canton, grouped by the licensing era their cards came from.
ReferenceCowboys Card Sets, Era by Era
Which sets carried Cowboys cards from vintage Topps through the Panini rainbow.
Top listCowboys Legends: Aikman, Smith, Irvin
The Triplets who won three of these titles, and the cards that define them.
Top listBest Dallas Cowboys Cards to Collect
The marquee Cowboys cards across every era, each with a live eBay search.
GuideWhat Are My Cowboys Cards Worth?
Identify the set, year, and card type first — then price against real listings.
GuideCollecting Dallas Cowboys Cards
Where to start a Cowboys collection and what actually holds value.