The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football franchise that plays in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League ( NFL ).
The Cowboys joined the NFL as a 1960 expansion team.
The team plays its home games at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
An article from Forbes Magazine, dated September 5, 2012, lists the Cowboys as the highest valued sports franchise in the history of the United States with an estimated value of approximately $2.1 billion. They are also the wealthiest team in the NFL, generating almost $269 million in annual revenue.