Jerry Jones gets booed in his own building
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Jerry Jones hears the boos
April, 7, 2014
By Calvin Watkins | ESPNDallas.com
On Saturday night, Jerry Jones was shown on the big board at AT&T Stadium during the Final Four.
A good majority of fans booed the Cowboys owner.
I would say this is misplaced anger.
The Final Four isn’t the time to boo the man who helped bring a major sporting event to North Texas. Jones is a lot of things, from best owner in sports, below average general manager, good guy, whatever, but you can’t say he doesn’t deliver for North Texas.
Jones hasn’t delivered in quite some time around here.
His football team last won a Super Bowl in the 1990s. There are generations of fans growing up in North Texas who don’t know what Dallas/Fort Worth is like when the pro football team is winning.
Life in North Texas is just different when the Cowboys are winning. This isn’t anything personal against the Mavericks or Rangers, who reached the title games of their respective sports, but if the Cowboys are winning titles, fans are smiling a little more.
Jones understands this better than anybody and his plans to fix the Cowboys have been disjointed over the years.
He’s made change for the point of change, when in reality he should have left things alone.
Many fans and media members said Jones should have fired Wade Phillips after the 2008 season. Jones stuck with Phillips and eventually gave him a contract extension after an NFC East title was won. The Cowboys, incidentally, won a playoff game, the last one in the franchise’s history.
But I remember something Jones said after the Cowboys lost to Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings in the playoffs that season: He didn’t realize how far away his team was from the elites of the NFL.
The next season, the Cowboys missed the playoffs and haven’t been back since. The window for winning championships is small in the NFL and maybe Jones, without realizing it, has seen the window close on his franchise.
Jason Garrett was at the NFL owners meetings two weeks ago talking about needing a younger team. DeMarcus Ware and Jason Hatcher are not in their late 30s. Each player is 31. The Cowboys let both hit the free-agent market to sign with other teams.
By getting younger, maybe the Cowboys are trying to reopen a window to a title run.
Jones said his team isn’t rebuilding. Just retooling.
Jones, despite the boos from the fans, is trying to reopen a window to a championship that has been closed shut.
And maybe one day, when Jones is shown on the big board at AT&T Stadium, he’ll hear some cheers.
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Yeah, maybe... just maybe, someday that squirrel will finally get his nut. Keep holding out hope, boys.
April, 7, 2014
By Calvin Watkins | ESPNDallas.com
On Saturday night, Jerry Jones was shown on the big board at AT&T Stadium during the Final Four.
A good majority of fans booed the Cowboys owner.
I would say this is misplaced anger.
The Final Four isn’t the time to boo the man who helped bring a major sporting event to North Texas. Jones is a lot of things, from best owner in sports, below average general manager, good guy, whatever, but you can’t say he doesn’t deliver for North Texas.
Jones hasn’t delivered in quite some time around here.
His football team last won a Super Bowl in the 1990s. There are generations of fans growing up in North Texas who don’t know what Dallas/Fort Worth is like when the pro football team is winning.
Life in North Texas is just different when the Cowboys are winning. This isn’t anything personal against the Mavericks or Rangers, who reached the title games of their respective sports, but if the Cowboys are winning titles, fans are smiling a little more.
Jones understands this better than anybody and his plans to fix the Cowboys have been disjointed over the years.
He’s made change for the point of change, when in reality he should have left things alone.
Many fans and media members said Jones should have fired Wade Phillips after the 2008 season. Jones stuck with Phillips and eventually gave him a contract extension after an NFC East title was won. The Cowboys, incidentally, won a playoff game, the last one in the franchise’s history.
But I remember something Jones said after the Cowboys lost to Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings in the playoffs that season: He didn’t realize how far away his team was from the elites of the NFL.
The next season, the Cowboys missed the playoffs and haven’t been back since. The window for winning championships is small in the NFL and maybe Jones, without realizing it, has seen the window close on his franchise.
Jason Garrett was at the NFL owners meetings two weeks ago talking about needing a younger team. DeMarcus Ware and Jason Hatcher are not in their late 30s. Each player is 31. The Cowboys let both hit the free-agent market to sign with other teams.
By getting younger, maybe the Cowboys are trying to reopen a window to a title run.
Jones said his team isn’t rebuilding. Just retooling.
Jones, despite the boos from the fans, is trying to reopen a window to a championship that has been closed shut.
And maybe one day, when Jones is shown on the big board at AT&T Stadium, he’ll hear some cheers.
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Yeah, maybe... just maybe, someday that squirrel will finally get his nut. Keep holding out hope, boys.
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Phil is correct. Jerry was booed mainly because he is and always has been unpopular with non-Cowboys fans, which is mostly what is populating the final four.
Nothing to see here.
Nothing to see here.
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As for the country awards, I have no idea where they were or what cross section of fans would be there, or if they could distinguish Jerry Jones from Jim Jones, but I do know Luke Bryan is a tool.
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Jerry is actually dead. They've figured out how to stretch his skin over Matthew McConaughey's body.
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There are probably a lot of redneck folk in that audience. They know who Jerry is.
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Fisher: What did booing Jerry Jones at Final Four prove?
Mike Fisher
FOX Sports Southwest
APR 06, 2014 6:08p ET
IRVING, Texas - During Saturday's NCAA Final Four at AT&T Stadium, the image of Jerry Jones was flashed on the gigantic TV screen that hangs over the court - and doubles it in size.
About 80,000 basketball watchers were in attendance and more that a few of them booed the image.
Proving ... What? That every story needs a villain? That hooting at the man in his own building will inspire him to be a better host? That a spring day featuring college kids playing basketball still has something to do with his Cowboys?
Here's what it proves for certain: The Dallas Cowboys, in terms of popularity and recognition and People Who Care remain "America's Team."
You boo Jerry because you know him, because you know his team and because you care about it. ... Care because they've won Super Bowls and care because they haven't.
And it's not only your sore throat that establishes this; it's also your poking fingers.
The analytic website fivethirtyeight.com compiled Google search figures going back 10 years for each major North American professional sports team.
The findings?
The Cowboys rank first among all NFL teams. The gap between the Cowboys and the second-ranked Packers is the biggest gap between any two NFL teams. Including all professional North American teams, the Cowboys rank third in Google searches behind only the Yankees and Red Sox.
This can include searches for thrilling notes from Cowboys history and goofy jokes about Tony Romo and tragic events featuring Josh Brent and the late Jerry Brown. This is about "Hail Mary" and Cowboys Cheerleaders and even AT&T Stadium itself.
The Cowboys are a beloved team, a special love-to-hate team, a team that motivates your passion even in the spring, even at a college event, even at a basketball game.
Just as that big TV hangs over the stadium floor, mediocrity hangs over Jerry's Cowboys.
And yet, as proven by both your boos and your clicks ... You care.
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Right on cue.
Mike Fisher
FOX Sports Southwest
APR 06, 2014 6:08p ET
IRVING, Texas - During Saturday's NCAA Final Four at AT&T Stadium, the image of Jerry Jones was flashed on the gigantic TV screen that hangs over the court - and doubles it in size.
About 80,000 basketball watchers were in attendance and more that a few of them booed the image.
Proving ... What? That every story needs a villain? That hooting at the man in his own building will inspire him to be a better host? That a spring day featuring college kids playing basketball still has something to do with his Cowboys?
Here's what it proves for certain: The Dallas Cowboys, in terms of popularity and recognition and People Who Care remain "America's Team."
You boo Jerry because you know him, because you know his team and because you care about it. ... Care because they've won Super Bowls and care because they haven't.
And it's not only your sore throat that establishes this; it's also your poking fingers.
The analytic website fivethirtyeight.com compiled Google search figures going back 10 years for each major North American professional sports team.
The findings?
The Cowboys rank first among all NFL teams. The gap between the Cowboys and the second-ranked Packers is the biggest gap between any two NFL teams. Including all professional North American teams, the Cowboys rank third in Google searches behind only the Yankees and Red Sox.
This can include searches for thrilling notes from Cowboys history and goofy jokes about Tony Romo and tragic events featuring Josh Brent and the late Jerry Brown. This is about "Hail Mary" and Cowboys Cheerleaders and even AT&T Stadium itself.
The Cowboys are a beloved team, a special love-to-hate team, a team that motivates your passion even in the spring, even at a college event, even at a basketball game.
Just as that big TV hangs over the stadium floor, mediocrity hangs over Jerry's Cowboys.
And yet, as proven by both your boos and your clicks ... You care.
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Right on cue.
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Cowboys, Jones about 'creating tomorrow'
April, 7, 2014
By Tim MacMahon | ESPNDallas.com
The 50th anniversary of the Academy of Country Music Awards will be held at AT&T Stadium, an announcement that gave Jerry Jones yet another opportunity to boast about his $1.2 billion palace.
It also gave Jones another opportunity to make a puzzling comment that could cause folks to wonder about the priorities for a marketing genius who moonlights as the Dallas Cowboys' general manager.
"As you know, the Cowboys have not gone to the playoffs in several years," Jerry said during a press conference at the ACM Awards in Encino, Calif., this weekend. "We have not gone, yet we are the most popular TV show on television. We lead all teams in TV ratings. Twenty-four of the top 25 shows were all NFL games, and any time the Cowboys play, they're up there at the top and leading.
"Well, what causes that? What causes that is creating tomorrow, creating some excitement. We want to use that to make this awards show as best we can to make this awards show the greatest ever."
There's no question that JerryWorld will be a phenomenal venue for a big ol' country music shindig.
It's just disturbing, if not surprising, to hear an NFL GM bragging about his team's television ratings despite a prolonged run of on-field mediocrity. Only with the Cowboys.
Even by Jerry standards, it's a ridiculous stretch to believe that the Cowboys' popularity is about "creating tomorrow." The reality is it's all about living off the franchise's proud past, as the GM with the best job security in sports has been doing for almost two decades.
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Preach, Tim.
April, 7, 2014
By Tim MacMahon | ESPNDallas.com
The 50th anniversary of the Academy of Country Music Awards will be held at AT&T Stadium, an announcement that gave Jerry Jones yet another opportunity to boast about his $1.2 billion palace.
It also gave Jones another opportunity to make a puzzling comment that could cause folks to wonder about the priorities for a marketing genius who moonlights as the Dallas Cowboys' general manager.
"As you know, the Cowboys have not gone to the playoffs in several years," Jerry said during a press conference at the ACM Awards in Encino, Calif., this weekend. "We have not gone, yet we are the most popular TV show on television. We lead all teams in TV ratings. Twenty-four of the top 25 shows were all NFL games, and any time the Cowboys play, they're up there at the top and leading.
"Well, what causes that? What causes that is creating tomorrow, creating some excitement. We want to use that to make this awards show as best we can to make this awards show the greatest ever."
There's no question that JerryWorld will be a phenomenal venue for a big ol' country music shindig.
It's just disturbing, if not surprising, to hear an NFL GM bragging about his team's television ratings despite a prolonged run of on-field mediocrity. Only with the Cowboys.
Even by Jerry standards, it's a ridiculous stretch to believe that the Cowboys' popularity is about "creating tomorrow." The reality is it's all about living off the franchise's proud past, as the GM with the best job security in sports has been doing for almost two decades.
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Preach, Tim.
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It may be about creating tomorrow. A bizarre world where winning doesn't mean shit, but staying relevant is all you need with some marketing.
What's sad is what would happen if you gave Jerry Jones another franchise. And he took himself and his whole perverted family with him to run it.
It would be a laughing stock.
Dallas was the most popular team in the NFL long before he ever bought it. He's basically like some silver spoon third generation moron who took over his great-grandfather's business, had some early dumb luck, but still manages to keep making money over brand loyalty, not the product itself.
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Saved.
We keep hoping for Jerry to get offended at the slams but it just doesn't work.
Reminds me of this scene:
Jerry just loves a good roast.
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I wonder if it sounded as deadpanned as it did in print. Perfect.Never mind that was gay.
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CB in the first round?
TE in the second?
No DL until the 7th?
Garrett 5-year extension?
TE in the second?
No DL until the 7th?
Garrett 5-year extension?