DMN Blog: As an owner, Jerry Jones is second to one

[WoodysGirl]

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Jerry Jones comes in second in the annual owner rankings done by Yahoo.com NFL writer Michael Silver.

Here's Silver's take on Jerry:

Think that uproar over the height of the massive video screens at Cowboys Stadium and their potential for deflecting punts is stressing out Jones? Hold on while I let out a Texas-sized guffaw. It doesn't take a marketing genius (a term that happens to apply to Jerry and his eldest son, Stephen, the team's executive vice president and stadium point man) to realize that any criticism about the facility's construction plan are more than offset by the abundant publicity resulting from the controversy. After building the most impressive sports facility on the continent, the Joneses deserve to have a little fun in the sun - depending upon whether the roof is open or closed.​

Lampoon Jerry Jones all you want, and try to write off his three Super Bowl championships as the product of Jimmy Johnson's greatness, and you'll drown in a sea of cliché and superficiality. These are the facts about Jones: Over the past two decades no owner has been bolder (beginning with the out-of-the-blue hiring of Johnson in 1989); no owner has done more to move the league from its de facto communism of the pre-salary-cap era to the more entrepreneurial present; nobody has been as willing to put his wealth, reputation and vision on the line in the pursuit of winning.​

That doesn't mean Jones will always do things the way you (or I) insist he should. I'd love to see him hire a Dimitroff-type executive and trust him to run the personnel operation, and I wish he hadn't have bit on the Roy Williams trade. But if I were a Cowboys fan, I'd get down on my knees and thank the football gods for sending Jerry and his family to North Texas, and none of you will ever convince me otherwise.​

Among his many recent accomplishments: Jones, as chairman of the NFL Network, joined forces with Goodell to settle a long-running dispute with Comcast after successfully demonstrating that customers would cancel their cable service if denied access to the channel. Said one rival owner: "You've got to give it up for Jerry. The stadium's spectacular. Four words: Big vision, big testicles."​

For those who were wondering, no, Silver doesn't do annual GM rankings.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

“You’ve got to give it up for Jerry. The stadium’s spectacular. Four words: Big vision, big testicles.”

 

[DavidS]

Damn straight. I love it and I love me some Mr. Jones.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

We all give Jerra grief on a lot of things.

Still, there is no owner I'd rather have than jerra, the most proactive owner in the NFL.

 

[fgoodwin]

For those who were wondering, no, Silver doesn't do annual GM rankings.

I wish someone did. This isn't exactly an annual GM ranking, but Forbes recently ranked the top five GM-HC combos.

Can you guess who is conspicuous by their absence?