San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys rivalry set for record-tying 9th playoff game

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It's Game Day!: The San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys play each other at Levi's Stadium.

For Kyle Shanahan, the chance to coach the San Francisco 49ers against the Dallas Cowboys in a playoff game is a throwback to when that rivalry was the biggest in football.

This will be the ninth time these franchises have met in the postseason, tied for the most of any matchup in the Super Bowl era with San Francisco against Green Bay and Dallas against the Rams. The series took a long playoff break before resuming in the wild-card round last year when the 49ers held off the Cowboys 23-17. The game ended in dramatic fashion with Dak Prescott scrambling to the San Francisco 24 in the closing seconds.

The next meeting in the divisional round at Candlestick Park helped Staubach earn the moniker of "Captain Comeback." But Dwight Clark leaped over Everson Walls in the back of the end zone and came down with "The Catch" to give San Francisco a 28-27 lead. But the young Cowboys didn't flinch, getting two TDs from Smith to build a 24-20 lead and then Aikman helped seal it with a 70-yard pass to Alvin Harper to set up another TD.

 

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