SEATTLE -- Welcome to CenturyLink Field, where the Dallas Cowboys play the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship Game.

With a win the Cowboys will make their first Super Bowl appearance since the 1995 season, when they beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XXX held at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona.

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Super Bowl XLIX will be held in Glendale, Arizona, at University of Phoenix Stadium, not far from the Cowboys’ last run to glory.

But to get there the Cowboys will have to vanquish the ghosts of playoff’s past at Seattle. There have been 52,671 replays of Tony Romo’s bobbled snap in the 2006 wild-card round against the Seahawks this week.

Every time that replay is shown there is still a hint that Romo will beat Jordan Babineaux to the end zone or at least get to the 1-yard line for a first down. Oh, if Jason Witten’s first-down catch was not overturned by replay. Oh, if Martin Gramatica could have just tripped Babineaux. Maybe Bill Parcells would not have decided that night to retire for good and the 2007 Cowboys would have gone on to a Super Bowl run.

But this story could not be written better than having Romo beat the Seahawks in front of the 12th Man for the second time in three months.

Romo tore some rib cartilage in the first quarter last October, taking a huge Bobby Wagner hit. He never told anybody until later in the season, but pain was a constant. Yet it subsided long enough for Romo to do something Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees could not do against Russell Wilson at CenturyLink Field. He won. They didn’t.

That game wasn’t as close as the 30-23 final score indicated. If not for some misplays by the Dallas special teams, the Cowboys' win would have been larger. But the Cowboys also had some good fortune of their own with Romo finding Terrance Williams for a third-and-20 completion on the winning drive.

That game, more than any other, got the Cowboys believing they could contend for a Super Bowl and carried them through their road success in 2014.

Along the way they have picked up New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Christie and his orange sweater will be in Jerry Jones’ suite for the game, just as he has been the last three weeks, thumbing his nose at a constituency that can’t believe he is a Cowboys fan. The Cowboys haven’t lost with Christie in attendance. They will ride the big fella all the way to Glendale if they have to.

Jerry Jones will be in his lucky suit, wearing his lucky cufflinks, and maybe he has that buckeye he has carried for luck with him in the past. Coach Jason Garrett claims he is not superstitious. He is more about routine. He wore the same wristbands as a player, but the logo of the wristband had to be on the inside. It didn’t matter which way it pointed; just that it was on the inside.

“That’s the difference between superstition and routine,” Garrett said.

He will be in his simple blue sweatshirt with the Cowboys’ star, underneath his rain jacket. No word on those wristbands.

Wiz Khalifa’s “We Dem Boyz” will pound in the Beats of the players in the locker room. Romo, however, will go with Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing,” his unofficial rallying cry since he became the quarterback in 2006.

Despite the proliferation of 12th Man gear, a number of Cowboys fans will be in attendance. They packed the Cowboys’ downtown Seattle hotel Saturday night. America’s Team carries weight, even in the Pacific Northwest, and they can’t wait to see the Cowboys win Sunday.

Back home, stores have closed early for the game and bars will be packed from Burleson to Wylie, as well as in all corners of the country. The television ratings are expected to be record-setting. After nearly two decades of virtual dormancy, the Cowboys are back.

With a win Sunday in Seattle, the story will only grow.

Wait, what do you mean they overturned Dez Bryant’s catch at the goal line at Green Bay last week?

Still hard to believe, isn’t it?