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Cowboys Stadium Better Than Team
Published: 9/21/2009 1:29 PM
Last Modified: 9/21/2009 1:29 PM

Jerry Jones might be the best owner in all of American professional sports
But, it seems he is still haunted by something he did more than a decade ago.
When he decided he knew more than his coach, and pushed Jim Johnson out the door, the Cowboys started a slow slide to mediocrity.
Even with an incredible new stadium, these look like the same Cowboys that have not been able to get anywhere in the playoffs since Barry Switzer took Johnson's team to the Super Bowl title way back in the mid-1990s.
The Cowboys are competitive. They are good. But, they've never been the same since Jones tried to act like he knew more than the football guys.
He is a terrific football team owner. He knows how to make money. He is not scared to spend it to get players.
But, his Cowboys have never fully recovered from that day when Jones decided he knew more about football than the football guys he hired to resurrect his franchise.



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BLA (3 years ago)
Well, if the NFL goes into a cap-less season, you will see Jerry spend as much money as Arlington taxpayers did to build his stadium. An un-capped season in the NFL will make it like MLB, Boston, New York, Chicago and a couple of other teams will spend all the money and win all the games and make it almost as pointless as the MLB regular season.

And I will disagree with you on Jerry being one of pro-sports best owners. As you pointed out, it is because of him the Cowboys are floundering in mediocrity. I'll take Robert Kraft who has hired good people and let them do their jobs in New England and as an organization they refuse to let star players become bigger than the team. Instead, they find a good young player to take his place and they don't really miss a beat. On top of that, Kraft secured all private funding for Gillette Stadium and the surrounding Patriot Place entertainment district. All of this in a place about the size of Grove, OK.
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