News: SI: Cowboys Again Are World's Most Valuable Sports Team

Bobhaze said:

I am so unimpressed with guys making tons of dough who haven’t won anything on the field for 25 years. Every time that financial report comes back and another year has gone by without even a divisional playoff win, it feels like the Jones family taunting the fans for buying a mediocre product.

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plasticman said:

No, we are not "free" to stop watching them nor should we ever feel as though we don't have a right to express our outrage when the team owner has placed profit and personal ego above winning.

I have an emotional investment of 50 years as a Cowboy fan, long before Jerry ever showed up. Yes, I could walk away but I beleive the Cowboy legacy created by the first 34 years of the team's existence is worth fighting for.

An early quote by Jerry Jones was that it is all about winning. He didnt say profits. However, Jerry has failed to live up to that commitment.

No other team would have ever considered the Jones's for employment as a franchise executive. No other team would have retained them past 1997. As NFL executives, both Jones's are proven detriments.

Jerry's refusal to hand the GM job to a proven professional has cost this team and it's fans dearly.

Note that the team name includes two words, Dallas and Cowboys. They are not called the Jerry Cowboys. This is a partnership between the Cowboys and the tax payers in the surrounding commumitiee. Communities have allocated money, infrastructure and manpower in support of this professional sports franchise.

In one of his very first interviews, Jerry Jones acknowledged this relationship when he said that nobody can own the Dallas Cowboys, he considered himself to be a steward. In fact, the collective owners actually have the authority to remove Jerry Jones as the owner.

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blueblood70 said:

Imagine if the NFL had no Cap we would be the yankees of football..

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daboyzruleperiod said:

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Jake said:

The Yankees have opposed a salary cap.

Jerry, on the other hand, wanted a cap.

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Reality said:

Cowboys Again Are World's Most Valuable Sports Team

The New York Yankees, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors round out the top five on Forbes' annual list.

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Redball Express said:

wow..

Where does one start with this post?

What set this rant off?

I will start here.

Being a fan for 50 years as we both are..we have seen it all.

Having been season ticket holders until this season means I have put my money where my mouth is. This is the first year we will not be buying season tickets becuz they will not be offered it was just announced.

But still...I understand Jerrah has no moral obligation to the fans. You should also. This is about business. The Dallas Cowboys are a business. Business requires decisions that have to benefit the business first..otherwise it will not exist.

Being a fan is always a risky deal. Many a season we have spit nails.

But always remember Jerrah stepped up and bought the team when it was in the gutter and thru his relationship with Jimster re-invented us.

He quickly produced 3 SBs.

We all know the history.

Wanting to blame Jerrah is too easy. The man singlehandedly showed how to take a failing team straight into football history.

His draft this year was masterful. It may have reset the franchise for another run along with McCarthy's hiring.

You have to enjoy the game. You have forgotten why you follow this team.

Time to let the past go. Garrett is gone.

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plasticman said:

Contrary to Jerry's propaganda, there were many groups interested in purchasing the Cowboys. Jerry discovered one that was ready to pull the trigger on the deal which is why, to this day, he admitted he overpaid for the Cowboys

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-16-sp-3935-story.html

Jack Veatch, managing director of the Dallas office of Salomon Bros., which is helping to line up prospective buyers, said Wednesday that H. R. (Bum) Bright has received four written offers for the team and the Texas Stadium lease.

This myth goes hand in hand with the "losing a million dollars a day" myth. Although the Cowboys team were technically losing money, the original intent of purchasing a professional sports franchise wasn't about profit vs. deficit. These sports franchises were purchased by business leaders for the purpose of enhancing the reputation and prestige of his profitable businesses. In some cases it was seen as a magnanimous gesture, giving something back to the community. It was similar to a smaller business sponsoring a community children's baseball league team. Ticket sales were priced to balance the costs of the players, equipment, and other hired professionals.

https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/30-years-ago-jerry-jones-made-his-biggest-deal

"Every NFL team was losing money, but here's the thing. For years, it was a rich man's club, the league wasn't set up to make money. It was about really rich men who liked having a football team and could afford to lose a few million each year."

"Jerry wanted to win as much as anyone, but he was going to run the Cowboys as a business. He was going to make them profitable."

Jerry wanted to win as much as anyone, but!!!

The original intent of the league had been circumvented by a group of owners headed by Jerry Jones against the "league first" faction of the old-timers. I'm not saying that Jerry was the first to think of a community enhancing organization becoming a cash cow. He's just the worse as evidenced by the Cowboys designation as most profitable. In addition, He has been able to reroute the amount of money he reports as profit from ownership of the Cowboys by listing it as profit from the ownership of the stadiums.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/27/the-nfls-anarchist-success-story/

"The primary purpose of the NFL – like MLB and other professional sports leagues – is not to provide enjoyment for fans and increase community solidarity, but to serve as a vehicle for extremely rich men to line their pockets by extracting money from taxpayers."


Skeptical? Here is another fact that should shock most fans:

The NFL operates as a non-profit organization.

https://www.sportscasting.com/5-highly-profitable-non-profits-in-sports/


The NFL is registered with the IRS as a 501 (c)6 organization, defined as such:

“Section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code provides for the exemption of business leagues, chambers of commerce, real estate boards, boards of trade and professional football leagues, which are not organized for profit and no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.”

These days, as previously noted, the desire for maximum profit has created a strategy of excluding the average "Joe" fan and catering to the rich and corporate entities, the complete opposite of the NFL's original intent.

https://my.vanderbilt.edu/vrooman/files/2016/06/VROOMAN-NFL.pdf

"Take-it-or-leave-it perfect price discrimination has exhausted the consumer-surplus of the marginal fan. Fan-exclusion tactics have become virtually the same in both media and venue revolutions. The NFL league-cartel and its local monopoly teams have charged fewer and fewer fans more and more money for the same all-or nothing season-ticket package. Over a very short period the venue structure of an entire League will have been transformed from multipurpose public stadiums designed for maximum fan welfare to publicly subsidized exclusive football-only venues designed for maximum profit."

Jerry Jones spearheaded a great deal of these profit driven strategies. It is the reason other owners arranged his induction into the HOF.

Consider this Part I of the answer to your question "Why the Rant?" I will be happy to provide Parts II thru XII upon request.

And I haven't forgotten why I follow this team, it certainly has nothing to do with Jerry Jones's record profits from something he claimed from day #1 "can't be owned" .

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Redball Express said:

Oh I feel a little baited here.

But you are only supporting how much we agree.

So we are not really far apart.

Yes..the HofF thing is the owners say "Thanx Jerrah"..

but we are still going to fine you if we hear one more peep about Zeke's suspension. And force you to leave the NFL if you continue.

Jerrah played it right to the end and I liked that alot. Because if Jerrah loves you...you are a made man.

Just ask Aikman and Romo.

And that is the part about Dak not bending more for Jerrah I do not understand. Even if Dak fails to succeed like Aikman in his post QB days as a TV announcer..

all he had to do is see Romo now. Or see Moose. Or Deion Sanders or Mike Irvin, or Marcus Wiley.

Dak needs Jerrah. Jerrah needs Dak. It's not so much about the money. That will come. Dak just needs to win.

And remember who he works for.

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