waving monkey
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Many have read this September 5, 2014 article and it's a dead horse argument but still
posters have a misguided view of the many things JJones has done and gone through
since owning this storied franchise.Example:
September 5, 2014
Lord knows I've often criticized Jerry Jones in this space and on "First Take." I've even concluded the man has become a caricature of his hillbilly-huckster self, now savoring wildly entertaining "moral victories" (last season's Peyton Manning 51, Tony Romo 48 at JerryWorld) as much as he does forgettable wins.
Yep, keep winning those TV ratings with your wildly loved/hated 8-8 team, Jerry! Keep minting money while flashing that increasingly antique Super Bowl ring! Keep lopsided-grinning about how America's Team is by far the NFL's most valuable team!
That's my view of Jerry Jones now.
This is about Jerry Jones then, in the early 1990s.
This is about why I do NOT blame Jerry Jones for telling ESPN's Don Van Natta he will NOT enshrine Jimmy Johnson in the Cowboys' Ring of Honor. No doubt most people see this as just another reason Jones should fire himself. No doubt the outcry from Cowboys fans is: Come on, Jerry, quit holding such a petty grudge. We fans deserve to have Jimmy in our Ring of Honor!
In my view, there's nothing petty about this grudge
Before that first Super Bowl season, in 1992, I decided to write a book about a year inside a young, talented team on the verge and the edge, run by two outrageously cocky upstarts who played football together at the University of Arkansas. When I had finished researching and writing "The Boys," I was left wondering how Jones hadn't fired Johnson already. In Jones' shoes, I probably would have.
No man should have to put up with the mean-spirited humiliation Jimmy often inflicted on Jerry in front of front-office staffers, assistant coaches and players. Jimmy all but dared Jerry to fire him, and after they won their second Super Bowl together, following the 1993 season, one final insult at a restaurant finally sent Jerry over the edge. He fired the coach who had won two straight Super Bowls and who, to the NFL world, appeared poised to win two or three more.
link/http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11465560/bayless-jerry-jones-jimmy-johnson-dallas-cowboys
posters have a misguided view of the many things JJones has done and gone through
since owning this storied franchise.Example:
September 5, 2014
Lord knows I've often criticized Jerry Jones in this space and on "First Take." I've even concluded the man has become a caricature of his hillbilly-huckster self, now savoring wildly entertaining "moral victories" (last season's Peyton Manning 51, Tony Romo 48 at JerryWorld) as much as he does forgettable wins.
Yep, keep winning those TV ratings with your wildly loved/hated 8-8 team, Jerry! Keep minting money while flashing that increasingly antique Super Bowl ring! Keep lopsided-grinning about how America's Team is by far the NFL's most valuable team!
That's my view of Jerry Jones now.
This is about Jerry Jones then, in the early 1990s.
This is about why I do NOT blame Jerry Jones for telling ESPN's Don Van Natta he will NOT enshrine Jimmy Johnson in the Cowboys' Ring of Honor. No doubt most people see this as just another reason Jones should fire himself. No doubt the outcry from Cowboys fans is: Come on, Jerry, quit holding such a petty grudge. We fans deserve to have Jimmy in our Ring of Honor!
In my view, there's nothing petty about this grudge
Before that first Super Bowl season, in 1992, I decided to write a book about a year inside a young, talented team on the verge and the edge, run by two outrageously cocky upstarts who played football together at the University of Arkansas. When I had finished researching and writing "The Boys," I was left wondering how Jones hadn't fired Johnson already. In Jones' shoes, I probably would have.
No man should have to put up with the mean-spirited humiliation Jimmy often inflicted on Jerry in front of front-office staffers, assistant coaches and players. Jimmy all but dared Jerry to fire him, and after they won their second Super Bowl together, following the 1993 season, one final insult at a restaurant finally sent Jerry over the edge. He fired the coach who had won two straight Super Bowls and who, to the NFL world, appeared poised to win two or three more.
link/http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11465560/bayless-jerry-jones-jimmy-johnson-dallas-cowboys