Try making a list of the greatest Cowboys ever and see how fast it blows up on you. Do you start with the quarterbacks who delivered Super Bowls? Do you tip your hat to running backs who rewrote record books? Or maybe the monsters in the trenches who made all that glory possible? When a franchise has been to eight Super Bowls and sent more than 30 men to Canton, ranking them is a losing battle from the start.

FOX Sports didn’t shy away from that fight. They leaned on stats, honors, and historical impact. And rolled out a Top 10 list that threads through six decades of Cowboys football. The list is a playbook on how the franchise built its reputation as “America’s Team.” Here’s how FOX stacked it: Roger Staubach at No. 1, followed by Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Bob Lilly, Michael Irv

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