What We Learned From Netflix’s Eight-Hour Cowboys Docuseries

Cowboys fans haven’t watched their team win a Super Bowl since 1996, and heading into the 2025–2026 season, they have little to look forward to. (America’s Team tends to land in the bottom half of most preseason power rankings .) It’s unclear whether, amid an ongoing contract dispute, the Cowboys’ best defensive player (Micah Parsons) will take the field or even still be on the team by the first game, in a few weeks, or whether head Coach Brian Schottenheimer is up to the task of doing what a slew of recent coaches couldn’t do and taking the team to the next level. But in lieu of hope, fans got something else this week: an eight-part docuseries chronicling the team’s nineties three-championship heyday, exploring in painstaking detail nearly every aspect of what made up those glory da