How Packers' Aaron Rodgers ended Cowboys' 2016 season - ESPN

FRISCO, Texas — In the 2016 season, Dak Prescott was a rookie quarterback leading the Dallas Cowboys to an NFC-best 13-3 record and home-field advantage in the divisional round of the playoffs when he first experienced postseason heartbreak.

On the other sideline that day were the Green Bay Packers, coached by current Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy and quarterbacked by Aaron Rodgers. After an underwhelming start, Prescott rallied the Cowboys to a 31-31 tie with 35 seconds left.

Then third-and-20 happened.

The Cowboys host the Packers Sunday at AT&T Stadium (4:30 p.m. ET, Fox) for the ninth time in the playoffs, bringing back fond memories for Dallas fans of three straight playoff wins over Green Bay from 1993 to 1995.

But those games are sandwiched by Packers postseason victories over the Cowboys: Bart Starr's touchdown to win the 1967 NFL Championship Game, better known as the Ice Bowl; the 2014 divisional round, when Dez Bryant's fourth-down catch was overturned by replay — and the 2016 divisional round, when Mason Crosby turned Rodgers' third-and-20 heroics into a game-winning field goal with no time left on the clock.

«I mean as a rookie, thought we were just going to go and wipe them off the field, and that didn't happen,» said Prescott, who is making his fifth playoff appearance Sunday. «Started off down 21-3, able to come back and make a play, and then just thinking… 'Oh, that was just a lucky play [by Rodgers].'»

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All the Cowboys needed to do was stop the Packers on third-and-20 and run the final 12 seconds off