Anyone who has time should listen to the Podcast; Jerry was great. Here's a few things that I can remember.
-He talked about Joe Thiesman, after the 1989 draft, stated that Jerry was dismantling a once great/proud franchise because he picked Aikman over Mandarich. Jerry said he sends Theisman that clip every couple of years.
-Jerry talked about when he first purchased the Cowboys and the team/organization was losing $75,000.00 per day ($1,000,000.00 per month) in operating was losing costs/expenses. I know the numbers don't add up but maybe I missunderstood his point. He said he'd lose allot of sleep at night and when he could sleep, a cricket could wake him up and he'd be up for the night. But it would motivate him to work harder.
-One intersting tid-bit was that Jerry was interested in purchasing the San Diego Chargers, prior to his purchase of the Cowboys. He never let his wife in on his thoughts regarding the Chargers. But, according to Jerry, he wanted to buy the Chargers with no money down. Obviously, that didn't work out but he said something about going to their team hotel where they'd be staying just to be close to and see the players.
-Another story was when Irvin and the Cowboys were at an impass over Irvin's new contract. As the represenative from Irvin and the team left the table, Mike and Jerry spoke in private. Jerry asked Mike if he'd heard the country song about "El Paso" and Jerry said that's what he was going to do with this contract...."el pass o", meaning this was it.....Irvin signed the contract.
-One of the emotional moments was when Jerry talked about the Philly game and Irvin's career ending injury. Jerry was in the ambulance on the way to the hospital with Mike, all the while Jerry was on the phone with Mike's wife giving her a play by play. For a while, Irvin didn't have any movement and couldn't feel anything. Then, Irvin started to move his one finger, then the other, and so on and so forth. You can tell there's allot of respect between the two.
Keep some things a secret for down the road.
