In the long arc of a franchise still chasing its last championship from three decades ago, the Dallas Cowboys found a moment of renewal Sunday — a 37-20 victory over Washington in which quarterback Dak Prescott surpassed Tony Romo's career touchdown record, reaching 249, and owner Jerry Jones exhaled after fearing an 0-2 start that might have darkened the season before it truly began. Milestones in sport are rarely just about numbers; they mark the quiet passing of one era into another, and Prescott's record signals that the present has finally, formally, overtaken the Cowboys' celebrated past