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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was named to his fourth Pro Bowl of his career and celebrated the achievement this week in San Francisco.
But while the now decade-long leader of the Cowboys is appreciative of the accolade, he would trade all of his individual success away for one thing: making it to the Super Bowl.
The Pro Bowl Games, now an event in the lead-up to Super Bowl LX between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots, took place on Tuesday night, with Prescott's NFC outdueling the AFC.
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The Cowboys signal-caller opened up about having to be in the same city as the championship game while being forced to watch from the sidelines.
“Monkey, gorilla, you know, gets bigger each year that we don’t make it,” Prescott said to Clarence Hill of All City DLLS in San Francisco. "And now in Year 10, having opportunities and not doing what you wanted as a team and individually, it hurts. And every year it just means even more."
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Prescott opened up about the growing expectations year after year in Dallas, with one of the most loyal and rabid fanbases in all of sports.
For him, it's not even entirely about making the Super Bowl; it's about making it to the NFC Championship first. The Cowboys haven't played for the conference crown in 30 years, the last time being in January of 1996 when they defeated the Green Bay Packers.
Football broadcaster Troy Aikman was the Cowboys' QB. Brett Favre was throwing for the Packers.
Prescott was two years old.
"You want to be here, and you want to be playing," Prescott continued. "But the mindset I have is we go through everything for a purpose. And you can’t tell me that all these 10 years and every experience I’ve had wasn’t for us to be better and get there next year.”
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