Jerry owns the team. He has the right to be the decision maker. He risked everything to turn the Cowboys into a money maker. As much as I disagree with his decisions and loathe his way of doing things, I am adamant that it is selfish and unfair- and silly- to expect him to stop being in charge
Those demands are silly and naive, and the media that asks those questions are the most unprofessional of reporters, and that is saying something.
But what fans and media can/should do is to crucify his poor decisions and stop supporting his business. He is only successful because he has convinced fans and media to buy what he sells. Most businesses that put out such a poor product end up out of business.
If the Cowboys that Jerry Jones sells are not what he represents them to be, fans and media alike must stop giving him a pass. His sales should drop and layoffs should follow.
If he faces financial ruin, he will have no choice but to either sell the business or put a product on the field that is worth buying.
Jerry has been careless, and his product is worthless.
Fans and media must quit buying it.
What does this have to do with the game of football?
I don't give a single wolf-biscuit about the finances, who the owner is, business ethics or product positioning.
The Dallas Cowboys have not been relevant for almost 30 years. There is one common factor and there needs to be change there.
This is about winning. Anything else combined doesn't come close.
Jerry Jones knows this. It was one of the first sentences out of his mouth after purchasing the team.
"The name of the game is winning"
He didn't mean it and he was just telling us what we wanted to hear but he wasn't wrong.
It used to be that the only people that bought a sports franchise were the ones that could afford it. They weren't there to make a profit, they already had a successful company that they owned.
The purpose of buying a team in the NFL wasn't about profit, it was about enhancing the reputation of the business they already owned and giving something back to the communities responsible for their success. Do the names Hunt and Kraft sound familiar?
This is why the NFL was a tax-free entity. This is why each team begins with the name of a city, state, or community. This is why many team stadiums were subsidized and infrastructure was created by city or county taxes.
However, the people that the team was created for the most, "Joe Fan" are now being excluded through corporate ticket packaging and pay TV. One of the earlier NFL commissioners, Pete Rozelle, promised that this would never happen, but it did and one of the guys most responsible was Jerry Jones
This is actually why the other owners used their influence to get him into the Hall of Fame. His "contribution" to the game of football was turning his fellow owners into billionaires.
Yes, we all know that Jerry can do what he wants, he has made that crystal clear. However, the question was never "could he", but "should he" and the answer to that question is emphatically NO.
