Fun Fact: Jerry almost bought the Chargers

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SAN DIEGO – It’s a little known fact that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones almost bought the Chargers.

Decades ago, Jones threw his hat in the ring to purchase the San Diego Chargers.

FOX 5 asked Jones what the Chargers would be like today if he had bought them. Jones would not speculate on “what ifs,” but said for sure he would have been a very active owner has he has been with the Cowboys.
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Not sure anyone would have bought the Cowboys other than Jerry. the original asking price was 200 mill, the cowboys financially were a disaster in 1988 losing about 1mill per month. Jerry waited and then made the offer of 140 mil and then made the deal in Feb 1989.
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Buss would likely have gotten us to the same level Jones did if you see how he ran the Lakers.

The biggest thing here is Jones' decision to hire Coach Johnson. Interestingly enough, Johnson was already being rumored to Dallas even before Jones bought the team.
That was the best thing Jones did was hire Jimmy Johnson after that it was down hill.
 

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No. But, if the new owner "X" hired Jimmy and left him alone to be GM/Coach, yes.
We also had a great staff. Coaches were good. Scouting was outstanding: Wooton, Mansparger, Ackles. When they all left and all that remained were loyalists like Lacewell, Ciskowski and Garrett? Explains a lot.
 

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We also had a great staff. Coaches were good. Scouting was outstanding: Wooton, Mansparger, Ackles. When they all left and all that remained were loyalists like Lacewell, Ciskowski and Garrett? Explains a lot.
We took the good with the bad. Kind of like teen pregnancy. A moment of esctasy and a lifetime of pain.
 

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I wouldn't sacrifice those three SB titles we've won with Jerry just to change the owners. Time travel is a bad thing because changing history always has adverse effects somewhere down the line.
 

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https://fox5sandiego.com/sports/jerry-jones-almost-bought-san-diego-chargers/

SAN DIEGO – It’s a little known fact that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones almost bought the Chargers.

Decades ago, Jones threw his hat in the ring to purchase the San Diego Chargers.

FOX 5 asked Jones what the Chargers would be like today if he had bought them. Jones would not speculate on “what ifs,” but said for sure he would have been a very active owner has he has been with the Cowboys.
So Jimmy would've been coaching the Chargers instead of the Cowboys
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https://fox5sandiego.com/sports/jerry-jones-almost-bought-san-diego-chargers/

SAN DIEGO – It’s a little known fact that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones almost bought the Chargers.

Decades ago, Jones threw his hat in the ring to purchase the San Diego Chargers.

FOX 5 asked Jones what the Chargers would be like today if he had bought them. Jones would not speculate on “what ifs,” but said for sure he would have been a very active owner has he has been with the Cowboys.

Lucky them.
 

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There were plenty of bidders.
There were pretty much four.

The Cowboys were not an attractive buy at the time. They were bleeding money and Bright was a complete hillbilly imbecile.

Jones even lost $300K on a coin flip to Bright that was arranged because Bright was leveraging all kinds of debt.
 

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We took the good with the bad. Kind of like teen pregnancy. A moment of esctasy and a lifetime of pain.
I view it more like having a child.

Complete awesomeness and then after over two and a half decades, you are ready for them to go.

Just go. Get out. Please.
 

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I wouldn't sacrifice those three SB titles we've won with Jerry just to change the owners. Time travel is a bad thing because changing history always has adverse effects somewhere down the line.
Time travel means zero since we are all living in The Matrix.

That means, somehow, we are all wishing this ridiculous story into existence.
 

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Buss would likely have gotten us to the same level Jones did if you see how he ran the Lakers.

The biggest thing here is Jones' decision to hire Coach Johnson. Interestingly enough, Johnson was already being rumored to Dallas even before Jones bought the team.
Correct . Jimmy’s name had already been mentioned before Jethro.

Ultimately it was his best decision. Unfortunately not many since.

It was a great honeymoon but a marriage gone bad.
 

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