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Cowboys fan working to have Jerry Jones fire himself
05:29 PM CST on Wednesday, February 11, 2009
By AARON CHIMBEL / WFAA.com
RAW VIDEO: Full interview with Robert Monarrez
McKINNEY -- Robert Monarrez sits in the media room of his McKinney house typing on his laptop. He barely looks up at the NFL Network on the big screen.
Dallas Cowboys memorabilia is on the walls, two Cowboys pillows frame his couch.
In this dark second-story room, 26 miles from Valley Ranch, Monarrez hopes he is changing the course of the Dallas Cowboys.
"It's time for something to change," Monarrez says.
Monarrez, a Cowboys fan most of his life, is 40 now and tired -- tired of the team losing. The Cowboys last won a playoff game in 1996.
He has a plan on how the Cowboys can win again: Convince owner Jerry Jones to fire himself as general manager.
"I think Jerry Jones the owner is a winner and he's going to do whatever it takes to win again," Monarrez says. "I think once he realizes that he's the one that is holding them back he might seriously consider taking that step."
Monarrez likes Jones the owner, the new stadium and the Super Bowl coming to Arlington, but he simply doesn't think Jones is a very good football man.
He thinks a lot of Cowboys fans agree, so last month Monarrez started his first website, FireTheCowboysGM.com.
"I'd been hoping that (Jones) would realize it for himself," Monarrez says. "Now that he hasn't, I said 'it's time for me to take some action and try to help unite all the voices of people saying he needs to step down.'"
The numbers in his poll aren't even close.
"About 78 percent of the people believe that he should go," Monarrez says.
His website is a place to collect opinions. More than 1,000 people have signed his petition and he wants to collect a lot more before eventually printing them all out, securing them in a binder, or binders, and delivering them to Valley Ranch.
"I don't know that they'll let me walk in and see him," Monarrez says. "If Jerry Jones really cares about the fans like he says he does, he's going to take the time to look at that petition and really consider what we're asking for."
Monarrez is not in it to make money. The site is free and there are no ads.
AARON CHIMBEL / WFAA.com
Robert Monarrez working on his FireTheCowboysGM.com website. It all goes back to when Monarrez was an 8-year-old boy in El Paso and started watching Cowboys games with his uncle. He's been hooked ever since.
"To see your team win a championship, that you've cheered for for so many years, is one of the greatest feelings that you can have as a sports fan," Monarrez says.
When he moved to McKinney in 2006, he bought his Cowboys season tickets before his house.
"I'm in a great mood when they win and I'm in a really bad mood when they lose, so what's in it for me is that I really want the Cowboys to be the best team in the world," Monarrez says.
He just wants to see his team win a Super Bowl again. He says it was hard seeing the Pittsburgh Steelers win their sixth title earlier this month, while the Cowboys have been stuck on five for 13-years.
"On behalf of the multitude of Dallas Cowboys fans," Monarrez writes in his petition letter, "we implore you to please do the honorable, respectable and accountable action of stepping down as the Dallas Cowboys general manager. We ask you to bring in a qualified person that is going to be 100 percent dedicated to the management of the actual football team, a GM that is going to spend an extremely significant amount of time working towards the accomplishment of a sixth Super Bowl Championship and act as a resource that will rival the resources that every other football team in the league enjoys."
Monarrez is not sure Jones will listen, but he's hopeful.
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/wfaa090211_ac_firejerry.69e8f32.html
05:29 PM CST on Wednesday, February 11, 2009
By AARON CHIMBEL / WFAA.com
RAW VIDEO: Full interview with Robert Monarrez
McKINNEY -- Robert Monarrez sits in the media room of his McKinney house typing on his laptop. He barely looks up at the NFL Network on the big screen.
Dallas Cowboys memorabilia is on the walls, two Cowboys pillows frame his couch.
In this dark second-story room, 26 miles from Valley Ranch, Monarrez hopes he is changing the course of the Dallas Cowboys.
"It's time for something to change," Monarrez says.
Monarrez, a Cowboys fan most of his life, is 40 now and tired -- tired of the team losing. The Cowboys last won a playoff game in 1996.
He has a plan on how the Cowboys can win again: Convince owner Jerry Jones to fire himself as general manager.
"I think Jerry Jones the owner is a winner and he's going to do whatever it takes to win again," Monarrez says. "I think once he realizes that he's the one that is holding them back he might seriously consider taking that step."
Monarrez likes Jones the owner, the new stadium and the Super Bowl coming to Arlington, but he simply doesn't think Jones is a very good football man.
He thinks a lot of Cowboys fans agree, so last month Monarrez started his first website, FireTheCowboysGM.com.
"I'd been hoping that (Jones) would realize it for himself," Monarrez says. "Now that he hasn't, I said 'it's time for me to take some action and try to help unite all the voices of people saying he needs to step down.'"
The numbers in his poll aren't even close.
"About 78 percent of the people believe that he should go," Monarrez says.
His website is a place to collect opinions. More than 1,000 people have signed his petition and he wants to collect a lot more before eventually printing them all out, securing them in a binder, or binders, and delivering them to Valley Ranch.
"I don't know that they'll let me walk in and see him," Monarrez says. "If Jerry Jones really cares about the fans like he says he does, he's going to take the time to look at that petition and really consider what we're asking for."
Monarrez is not in it to make money. The site is free and there are no ads.
AARON CHIMBEL / WFAA.com
Robert Monarrez working on his FireTheCowboysGM.com website. It all goes back to when Monarrez was an 8-year-old boy in El Paso and started watching Cowboys games with his uncle. He's been hooked ever since.
"To see your team win a championship, that you've cheered for for so many years, is one of the greatest feelings that you can have as a sports fan," Monarrez says.
When he moved to McKinney in 2006, he bought his Cowboys season tickets before his house.
"I'm in a great mood when they win and I'm in a really bad mood when they lose, so what's in it for me is that I really want the Cowboys to be the best team in the world," Monarrez says.
He just wants to see his team win a Super Bowl again. He says it was hard seeing the Pittsburgh Steelers win their sixth title earlier this month, while the Cowboys have been stuck on five for 13-years.
"On behalf of the multitude of Dallas Cowboys fans," Monarrez writes in his petition letter, "we implore you to please do the honorable, respectable and accountable action of stepping down as the Dallas Cowboys general manager. We ask you to bring in a qualified person that is going to be 100 percent dedicated to the management of the actual football team, a GM that is going to spend an extremely significant amount of time working towards the accomplishment of a sixth Super Bowl Championship and act as a resource that will rival the resources that every other football team in the league enjoys."
Monarrez is not sure Jones will listen, but he's hopeful.
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/wfaa090211_ac_firejerry.69e8f32.html
