The Dallas Cowboys were one of the three teams selected to go from the NFL to the AFC as part of the merger, but when doing research for a NFL timeline I was surprised to learn that they were nearly put in the NFC. The reasons for this didn't make much sense to me, but it really would have screwed with some of the later rivalries, depending on who they swapped this. Suppose they did stay with the NFC? Presumably they would have been in the NFC West?