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Jerral Wayne Jones, Who really is the Billionaire owner of the Dallas Cowboys!
Lets go back and look at this present day owner of the Dallas Cowboys and see if we can figure out who Jerry Jones really is. Learning some business tactics from his dad Pat Jones in the grocery store business, Jerral (Jerry) Jones started out by stacking shelves for his dad’s grocery store. Now let’s go to 1950, probably a important time in Jerry Jones young life, with Pat Jones buying a brand new car and Jerry Jones sitting in the car as they are driving down the road. Jerry Jones sees people taking notice of them in the brand new car. After driving around in town, the family got back to get the new car the going over by the service station attendant. Jerry Jones’s jaw dropped in anguish, awe, and horror due to the driver’s side door being badly damaged, and barely hanging on by a hinge. Pat Jones told Jerry right there, we all can have a friend for life here or an enemy for life. The old saying, your youth and how kids growing up seeing how their parents react to life’s ups and downs effects us all comes to my mind. After talking to the service station attendant, the young man told Pat Jones he had scraped the car door when backing out of the garage. Not condemning the young man, Pat Jones made a friend. Jerry Jones saw that, and realized afterwards the young man’s whole family did business with Jerry Jones family. Jerry stated that his dad was a wonderful teacher in life.
Then, with the Arkansas football team as co-captain Jerry Jones helped the Hogs football team won the 1964 National championship that year with Jerry playing offensive guard. After leaving football in college Jerry Jones sold insurance with a grand total of 1 million dollar policy to his dad. Jerry then decided that he wanted to be a player in high profile business relating to customers needs and wants. One time at an airport I believe, Jerry Jones was purchasing a ticket and the saleswoman there, took his credit card from him. Telling Jerry that he was over maxed with his card, that left a very memorable impression on Jerry Jones never to let that happen again. Most of you probably don’t realize at the age of 23, Jerry Jones had a chance to buy the San Diego Chargers for the mere price of 5.8 million dollars. Jerry’s dad talked him out of the deal. At age of 26 Jerry had the opportunity to have the franchise rights to several top food chains.
However, Jerry passed on McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken, but choosing to go with Shakey’s Pizza parlors. Which that decision cost Jerry millions, so why am I bringing up these past failures. In life, we all have past decisions that we should have chosen better options. Call it maturity, growth as a person, good common sense, luck, brains and destiny. Having learned from these past failures, Jerry Jones got the chance to purchase the Cowboys. Again, pride and determination, not stepping back and thinking through the process of purchasing the Cowboys, cost Jerry Jones fan favor with the firing of Coach Tom Landry.
Most of you don’t know that Jerry Jones did offer Tom Landry a job with the Cowboys with some type of management but not as head coach. How, do I know this, I knew a person that was on the board of the Dallas Cowboys when Jerry Jones bought the team. However, Tom Landry chose not to accept that offer, which in all purposes was just a front window dressing and Tom Landry was not that type of person to be taken lightly. As well as the Dallas Cowboy fans. Again, Jerry Jones didn’t think through the process of a famed and respected Head Coach like Landry would take a demotion and a slap in the face. Let alone how all the Dallas Cowboys fans felt. Right there that spurred Jerry Jones on to proving that he was the right person to own the Dallas Cowboys and he would bring championships back to the Dallas Cowboys and their fans.
As you all know, with the hiring of a great coach in Jimmy Johnson, the die was set, a head coach was finally in charge again in Dallas with desire to be great and win. Right there is where Jerry Jones should have realized what championships were like, from his early days at Arkansas to the super bowls that Jimmy Johnson helped the Cowboys get. Granted, Jerral Wayne Jones gave the tools of total respect, to the head coach to get the job done, no matter what. With total control of trading, firing, or cutting players, Coach Johnson slowly built the Cowboys into champions. Jerry Jones got Jimmy the players, coaches, training camps, and staff personnel that Jimmy needed to win those championships. After Jimmy Johnson convinced the players that losing was no more in Dallas and they would win, if he did what he said, championships would come and they did. With leaders on the team like Kevin Gogan, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman, Jay Novachek, Ken Norton Jr, and Bill Bates, and the approval of Jerry Jones, Jimmy Johnson was able to get players like Charles Haley and Thomas Everett, 2 big time playmakers, the locker room chemistry was already there, to allow these players to come onto the field with their vast personalities and not affect the chemistry of the team. This allowed Jerry Jones to win those super bowls and get the notoriety as the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Even when Jerry Jones signed Deion Sanders in 95, the team was already built with leaders that wouldn’t allow egos to get in the way in the locker room and on the field.
This is something that Jerry Jones has partially come to focus with this year after the release of T O, Tank Johnson, Greg Ellis, Pacman and others. You have to have leaders on the team that police the team in retrospect and keep the team policed. It’s like Charles Haley told Troy Aikman one time, if you have a problem with a player on offense let me know. If they don’t pull their weight, or do what you say, then those players affect me and my chance to win super bowls, as well as my money. Haley went on to say, he would see that those players on offense did what Aikman said. That’s what leadership is all about. If you don’t have leadership in the locker room, then the Head Coach must instill that till players take over. That’s something that Coach Jimmy Johnson did, till leadership in the locker room took over in the 90’s.
What a lot of you also don’t realize is that Jerry Jones didn’t start eating breakfast regularly and 3 square meals a day till 1991. After Jerral Wayne Jones developed an irregular heartbeat, under doctor’s orders, Jerry Jones followed these eating directions from his physician. So, if you add in everything that Jerry Jones does, running the football 53 man roster, operating the business operations, overseeing the opening of the new Cowboys stadium, along with Jerry Jones holdings in real estate, oil and gas, media and entertainment. Maybe just maybe we as fans to some degree have misunderstood Jerry Jones. I agree myself, most likely its probably too many hats that Jerral Wayne Jones is wearing. A lot of fans have said so too.
Now lets forward again to Jerry Jones stating that in the early 90’s, he realized that Jimmy Johnson was one of the brightest men there was as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. So, let’s go back to hard work, sweat, tears, brains, common sense and luck. I think it’s all about destiny and realizing that fortunes have come your way due to destiny and God’s directions. Predestination so to speak, being there in the right time at the right place. We all get the big head sometimes and think we did it all on our own. Then, our pride gets the best of us all and in the way in our life. Yet, did Jerry Jones win those super bowls, or the players by themselves. NO! It all took team leadership, chemistry and team unity, along with luck, hard work, sweat, blood and tears. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible in our Lord Jesus. This is something that Jerry Jones either hasn’t come to realize yet or acknowledge. Back to Jerry saying we work things out between us, Jimmy Johnson and myself. Towards the approach of Jerry Jones now, with the gag order that Jerry Jones stipulated to all the coaches at the NFL scouting combine. Sometimes, Jerry Jones just can’t contain himself, by wanting to be noticed and given credit for what he does. But what about the team. Is Jerry there on the field tackling, or scoring touchdowns, or working out hard in the weight room, or late at night working on plays as a coach. It takes a team to do this and credit will come after you win championships. You can’t buy championships, you have to work for it first and build within as a team, just like in life, takes hard work, sweat, and luck, along with destiny.
Let’s fast forward again, to the release of T O. Who was on the plane with Jerry Jones telling T O about his release. Stephen Jones! Granted, Stephen doesn’t take credit for that, but I do think now, Stephen does have some influence on Jerry. Now let’s go back in time to the first paragraph in this document talking about 1950, probably a important time in Jerry Jones young life, with Pat Jones buying a brand new car and Jerry Jones sitting in the car as they are driving down the road. The old saying, your youth and how kids growing up seeing how their parents react to life’s ups and downs effects us all comes to my mind. Jerry stated that his dad was a wonderful teacher in life. Just maybe another lesson is needed for Jerry Jones to learn about being owner of the Dallas Cowboys. As the old saying goes, don’t judge a book by its cover or judge a person till you walk in his shoes, while giving credit where credit is due. I think that’s what Jerry Jones wants, for everyone to realize how hard he works, and given to keep the cowboys in contention. Yet, after 13 years with no playoff wins, something is wrong and has to be fixed. That is something I am sure Jerry and Stephen Jones are well aware of and working towards to fixing. Just like Jimmy Johnson told his players once, you all should hate losing as much as I do. In recent years, a rising number of Dallas Cowboy fans have expressed their displeasure with Jones and the lack of success in the franchise. This has led to formation of grassroots organizations aimed at displacing Jones from his position. That’s where the key is, for the players to realize their will be accountability and the coaches and Jerry Jones to make them accountable, as well as the coaches being accountable too.
Everyone says that after or if you get to meet Jerry Jones you come away impressed because his strength as a person is selling, and marketing items. That is who Jerral Wayne Jones really is as a person, a great seller of merchandise, but somewhat lacking as a coach or pure general manager in football stuff. Look at his hiring of Tank Johnson, Pacman, T O, and some others. You can’t buy a football team, it has to be built from within, then you can add players like Charles Haley, or Deion Sanders. Yes, maybe Jerry Jones does need to learn a few more lessons from his dad or let Stephen Jones help him some more in football decisions. Just something I thought Cowboy fans should know and think about.
Lets go back and look at this present day owner of the Dallas Cowboys and see if we can figure out who Jerry Jones really is. Learning some business tactics from his dad Pat Jones in the grocery store business, Jerral (Jerry) Jones started out by stacking shelves for his dad’s grocery store. Now let’s go to 1950, probably a important time in Jerry Jones young life, with Pat Jones buying a brand new car and Jerry Jones sitting in the car as they are driving down the road. Jerry Jones sees people taking notice of them in the brand new car. After driving around in town, the family got back to get the new car the going over by the service station attendant. Jerry Jones’s jaw dropped in anguish, awe, and horror due to the driver’s side door being badly damaged, and barely hanging on by a hinge. Pat Jones told Jerry right there, we all can have a friend for life here or an enemy for life. The old saying, your youth and how kids growing up seeing how their parents react to life’s ups and downs effects us all comes to my mind. After talking to the service station attendant, the young man told Pat Jones he had scraped the car door when backing out of the garage. Not condemning the young man, Pat Jones made a friend. Jerry Jones saw that, and realized afterwards the young man’s whole family did business with Jerry Jones family. Jerry stated that his dad was a wonderful teacher in life.
Then, with the Arkansas football team as co-captain Jerry Jones helped the Hogs football team won the 1964 National championship that year with Jerry playing offensive guard. After leaving football in college Jerry Jones sold insurance with a grand total of 1 million dollar policy to his dad. Jerry then decided that he wanted to be a player in high profile business relating to customers needs and wants. One time at an airport I believe, Jerry Jones was purchasing a ticket and the saleswoman there, took his credit card from him. Telling Jerry that he was over maxed with his card, that left a very memorable impression on Jerry Jones never to let that happen again. Most of you probably don’t realize at the age of 23, Jerry Jones had a chance to buy the San Diego Chargers for the mere price of 5.8 million dollars. Jerry’s dad talked him out of the deal. At age of 26 Jerry had the opportunity to have the franchise rights to several top food chains.
However, Jerry passed on McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken, but choosing to go with Shakey’s Pizza parlors. Which that decision cost Jerry millions, so why am I bringing up these past failures. In life, we all have past decisions that we should have chosen better options. Call it maturity, growth as a person, good common sense, luck, brains and destiny. Having learned from these past failures, Jerry Jones got the chance to purchase the Cowboys. Again, pride and determination, not stepping back and thinking through the process of purchasing the Cowboys, cost Jerry Jones fan favor with the firing of Coach Tom Landry.
Most of you don’t know that Jerry Jones did offer Tom Landry a job with the Cowboys with some type of management but not as head coach. How, do I know this, I knew a person that was on the board of the Dallas Cowboys when Jerry Jones bought the team. However, Tom Landry chose not to accept that offer, which in all purposes was just a front window dressing and Tom Landry was not that type of person to be taken lightly. As well as the Dallas Cowboy fans. Again, Jerry Jones didn’t think through the process of a famed and respected Head Coach like Landry would take a demotion and a slap in the face. Let alone how all the Dallas Cowboys fans felt. Right there that spurred Jerry Jones on to proving that he was the right person to own the Dallas Cowboys and he would bring championships back to the Dallas Cowboys and their fans.
As you all know, with the hiring of a great coach in Jimmy Johnson, the die was set, a head coach was finally in charge again in Dallas with desire to be great and win. Right there is where Jerry Jones should have realized what championships were like, from his early days at Arkansas to the super bowls that Jimmy Johnson helped the Cowboys get. Granted, Jerral Wayne Jones gave the tools of total respect, to the head coach to get the job done, no matter what. With total control of trading, firing, or cutting players, Coach Johnson slowly built the Cowboys into champions. Jerry Jones got Jimmy the players, coaches, training camps, and staff personnel that Jimmy needed to win those championships. After Jimmy Johnson convinced the players that losing was no more in Dallas and they would win, if he did what he said, championships would come and they did. With leaders on the team like Kevin Gogan, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman, Jay Novachek, Ken Norton Jr, and Bill Bates, and the approval of Jerry Jones, Jimmy Johnson was able to get players like Charles Haley and Thomas Everett, 2 big time playmakers, the locker room chemistry was already there, to allow these players to come onto the field with their vast personalities and not affect the chemistry of the team. This allowed Jerry Jones to win those super bowls and get the notoriety as the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Even when Jerry Jones signed Deion Sanders in 95, the team was already built with leaders that wouldn’t allow egos to get in the way in the locker room and on the field.
This is something that Jerry Jones has partially come to focus with this year after the release of T O, Tank Johnson, Greg Ellis, Pacman and others. You have to have leaders on the team that police the team in retrospect and keep the team policed. It’s like Charles Haley told Troy Aikman one time, if you have a problem with a player on offense let me know. If they don’t pull their weight, or do what you say, then those players affect me and my chance to win super bowls, as well as my money. Haley went on to say, he would see that those players on offense did what Aikman said. That’s what leadership is all about. If you don’t have leadership in the locker room, then the Head Coach must instill that till players take over. That’s something that Coach Jimmy Johnson did, till leadership in the locker room took over in the 90’s.
What a lot of you also don’t realize is that Jerry Jones didn’t start eating breakfast regularly and 3 square meals a day till 1991. After Jerral Wayne Jones developed an irregular heartbeat, under doctor’s orders, Jerry Jones followed these eating directions from his physician. So, if you add in everything that Jerry Jones does, running the football 53 man roster, operating the business operations, overseeing the opening of the new Cowboys stadium, along with Jerry Jones holdings in real estate, oil and gas, media and entertainment. Maybe just maybe we as fans to some degree have misunderstood Jerry Jones. I agree myself, most likely its probably too many hats that Jerral Wayne Jones is wearing. A lot of fans have said so too.
Now lets forward again to Jerry Jones stating that in the early 90’s, he realized that Jimmy Johnson was one of the brightest men there was as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. So, let’s go back to hard work, sweat, tears, brains, common sense and luck. I think it’s all about destiny and realizing that fortunes have come your way due to destiny and God’s directions. Predestination so to speak, being there in the right time at the right place. We all get the big head sometimes and think we did it all on our own. Then, our pride gets the best of us all and in the way in our life. Yet, did Jerry Jones win those super bowls, or the players by themselves. NO! It all took team leadership, chemistry and team unity, along with luck, hard work, sweat, blood and tears. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible in our Lord Jesus. This is something that Jerry Jones either hasn’t come to realize yet or acknowledge. Back to Jerry saying we work things out between us, Jimmy Johnson and myself. Towards the approach of Jerry Jones now, with the gag order that Jerry Jones stipulated to all the coaches at the NFL scouting combine. Sometimes, Jerry Jones just can’t contain himself, by wanting to be noticed and given credit for what he does. But what about the team. Is Jerry there on the field tackling, or scoring touchdowns, or working out hard in the weight room, or late at night working on plays as a coach. It takes a team to do this and credit will come after you win championships. You can’t buy championships, you have to work for it first and build within as a team, just like in life, takes hard work, sweat, and luck, along with destiny.
Let’s fast forward again, to the release of T O. Who was on the plane with Jerry Jones telling T O about his release. Stephen Jones! Granted, Stephen doesn’t take credit for that, but I do think now, Stephen does have some influence on Jerry. Now let’s go back in time to the first paragraph in this document talking about 1950, probably a important time in Jerry Jones young life, with Pat Jones buying a brand new car and Jerry Jones sitting in the car as they are driving down the road. The old saying, your youth and how kids growing up seeing how their parents react to life’s ups and downs effects us all comes to my mind. Jerry stated that his dad was a wonderful teacher in life. Just maybe another lesson is needed for Jerry Jones to learn about being owner of the Dallas Cowboys. As the old saying goes, don’t judge a book by its cover or judge a person till you walk in his shoes, while giving credit where credit is due. I think that’s what Jerry Jones wants, for everyone to realize how hard he works, and given to keep the cowboys in contention. Yet, after 13 years with no playoff wins, something is wrong and has to be fixed. That is something I am sure Jerry and Stephen Jones are well aware of and working towards to fixing. Just like Jimmy Johnson told his players once, you all should hate losing as much as I do. In recent years, a rising number of Dallas Cowboy fans have expressed their displeasure with Jones and the lack of success in the franchise. This has led to formation of grassroots organizations aimed at displacing Jones from his position. That’s where the key is, for the players to realize their will be accountability and the coaches and Jerry Jones to make them accountable, as well as the coaches being accountable too.
Everyone says that after or if you get to meet Jerry Jones you come away impressed because his strength as a person is selling, and marketing items. That is who Jerral Wayne Jones really is as a person, a great seller of merchandise, but somewhat lacking as a coach or pure general manager in football stuff. Look at his hiring of Tank Johnson, Pacman, T O, and some others. You can’t buy a football team, it has to be built from within, then you can add players like Charles Haley, or Deion Sanders. Yes, maybe Jerry Jones does need to learn a few more lessons from his dad or let Stephen Jones help him some more in football decisions. Just something I thought Cowboy fans should know and think about.
