Posted on 10/15/2024 4:27:49 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Tom Landry, Don Meredith, and Tex Schramm are all spinning in their graves. (Roger Staubach is still alive, but if he was dead, he’d be spinning like a dreidel, too.) America’s Team has hit rock bottom.
Jerry Jones purchased the Dallas Cowboys in 1989 and assumed the title of general manager. (Nobody realized it at the time, but apparently, it was a lifelong title.) The first head coach he hired — Jimmy Johnson — worked out extremely well. The early-to-mid-'90s Cowboys were disciplined, talented, and very successful. But Johnson only lasted five seasons. (He was fired after not drinking shots of liquor when Jones offered a toast to the Cowboys’ success. Seriously.)
Then there was head coach Barry Switzer (bad!) in 1994. And Chan Gailey (bad!) in 1998. And Dave Campo (bad!) in 2000.
Dave Campo only won 15 games in his three(!) years as head coach and was replaced by Bill Parcells (good!) in 2003. This was probably the high point of the Dallas Cowboys after all the superstars Jimmy Johnson developed had finally aged out. Optimism was everywhere. With Parcells’ success, the Cowboys fans rewarded Jones with a shiny new stadium.
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Terrell Owens on the star was good.
Jerry Jones kneels when they play the National Anthem, so he and his team can go to hell.
America’s team. Joe Biden’s America.
Idiot brings back washed-up Ezekiel Elliott.
And he rewarded Elliott for his suspension, which cost the team, with an extension even though running backs are a dime a dozen.
He deserves all the failure he’s getting.
Before the major sports adopted anti-American woke crap, I marveled at the huuuuge Dallas JumboTron screens. They are, at least, 50 yards wide.
Don’t miss them at all.
Stop calling it America’s Team. What drivel.
Yeah, pay $200+ a ticket just to watch the game on a JumboTron.
They aren’t even Texas’ team.
Sunday’s game sounded like it was played in Detroit.
Sometimes getting what we want is its own punishment. The longer Jones has called the detailed management shots the more convinced he is that such is his forte. I have family members who were very involved with the Cowboys organization both before and after his purchase. It is not pretty what they say.
Switzer at least won them a super bowl
More like Neil O’Donnell won them that Super Bowl.
I think Johnson was let go because of Jones ego. Johnson was getting too much credit to suit Jones. That being said, it’s Jones’ franchise and his money so he should be able to what he wants. As a side note, “America’s Team to me has always been The Steelers.
America’s Team is whoever plays the Cowboys.
Omagosh, I did not know this.
Tom Landry was a WWII B-17 pilot. What an awful, negative trajectory since.
Jones just disappeared from my 'okay or better' list.
It certainly is in our household.
A long time ago, it was America’s team with Tom Landry at the helm. He knew how to control his criminals.
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