Reverend Conehead
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Imagine how fed up we would be with Jerry Jones if the whole 1990s Super Bowl era had never happened. What if Jones had not hired Jimmy, but instead some garbage coach like Richie Kotite? It would have meant that the 90s would have been pretty much like the 2000s, the 2010s, and now. The team stinks up the place, then hovers in mediocrity for a while, and occasionally wins the division and maybe a playoff game. I think fans would have shown up at Jerry's doorstep with torches and pitchforks by 1999 at the very latest.
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When Jerry first bought the team and hired Jimmy, I had exactly zero confidence in them. Jerry wasn't even bright enough to realize he needed to have a courteous meeting with Tom Landry to fire him as respectfully as humanly possible. His failure to do that basic act of decorum made what little confidence I had in him fall into the toilet. The team had declined for a few years at that point, and to me both Jerry and Jimmy looked to me like incompetent country bumpkins trying to run a team. I fully expected it to be decades before we got our third Super Bowl.
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But they surprised me. I was not expecting that they would surpass Landry's championships in one decade. Then I thought that the right person bought the team. When they declined in the late 90s, most of us thought we should give Jones a chance. It was his purchase of the team that resulted in three more Super Bowls, and in being the team of the 90s. Even Landry didn't make the Cowboys the team of a decade (though he came very, very close).
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Two things were true:
* When I thought those two were incompetent country bumpkins, I was only half right.
* When I thought they were an extremely competent duo, I was only half right.
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Turns out, Johnson was the guru, and Jones was the incompetent booby. My thought is that Jones' bounce, or honeymoon, from the 3 90s-era Super Bowls expired at the end of the 20th century. That was December 31, 1999 or December 31, 2000, depending on how you count the centuries. I think I'm being pretty generous with his bounce period. Other fans got impatient with his mishandling of the team sooner, and maybe a few fans cut him slightly more slack than I did.
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But the man has had decades to prove he can win it all without Jimmy. Okay, technically, he did, but Super Bowl 30 was Jimmy's team. Switzer, I guess, gets a little credit for not destroying the team immediately. But not much. It's a little bit like giving a waitress credit for not dropping your burger on the floor and then serving it to you.
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I don't have any answers. The team is not publicly owned by the City of Dallas or even the State of Texas. We can't show up as angry shareholders, demanding better performance. One wishes Robert Kraft had bought the team, or that it could be publicly owned.
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When Jerry first bought the team and hired Jimmy, I had exactly zero confidence in them. Jerry wasn't even bright enough to realize he needed to have a courteous meeting with Tom Landry to fire him as respectfully as humanly possible. His failure to do that basic act of decorum made what little confidence I had in him fall into the toilet. The team had declined for a few years at that point, and to me both Jerry and Jimmy looked to me like incompetent country bumpkins trying to run a team. I fully expected it to be decades before we got our third Super Bowl.
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But they surprised me. I was not expecting that they would surpass Landry's championships in one decade. Then I thought that the right person bought the team. When they declined in the late 90s, most of us thought we should give Jones a chance. It was his purchase of the team that resulted in three more Super Bowls, and in being the team of the 90s. Even Landry didn't make the Cowboys the team of a decade (though he came very, very close).
...
Two things were true:
* When I thought those two were incompetent country bumpkins, I was only half right.
* When I thought they were an extremely competent duo, I was only half right.
...
Turns out, Johnson was the guru, and Jones was the incompetent booby. My thought is that Jones' bounce, or honeymoon, from the 3 90s-era Super Bowls expired at the end of the 20th century. That was December 31, 1999 or December 31, 2000, depending on how you count the centuries. I think I'm being pretty generous with his bounce period. Other fans got impatient with his mishandling of the team sooner, and maybe a few fans cut him slightly more slack than I did.
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But the man has had decades to prove he can win it all without Jimmy. Okay, technically, he did, but Super Bowl 30 was Jimmy's team. Switzer, I guess, gets a little credit for not destroying the team immediately. But not much. It's a little bit like giving a waitress credit for not dropping your burger on the floor and then serving it to you.
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I don't have any answers. The team is not publicly owned by the City of Dallas or even the State of Texas. We can't show up as angry shareholders, demanding better performance. One wishes Robert Kraft had bought the team, or that it could be publicly owned.
