Blogging The Boys
The Dallas Cowboys have a Netflix special premiering next week that chronicles the team’s ascension to the top of the sports world during the 1990s. As you can imagine, the people who played a role in that are center stage of the documentary and that includes team owner, president and general manager Jerry Jones.
While the documentary itself is not actually out yet there are some write-ups about it beginning to drop and in Brad Townsend’s at The Dallas Morning News he noted that Jerry Jones revealed something in the lead-up to it all that was previously unreported.
Jerry Jones battled stage 4 melanoma and was saved by an experimental trial drug.
On its surface, Netflix’s eight-part Dallas Cowboys documentary, while fascinating, contains no major revelation.
It does, though, drop a big hint.
That hint prompted a Tuesday question from The Dallas Morning News and a candid, newsworthy response from the Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones: He fought stage 4 melanoma for a decade and an experimental trial drug saved his life.
“I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy],” Jones said. “I went into trials for that PD-1 and it has been one of the great medicines.
“I now have no tumors.”
This is an incredibly serious thing and it is wonderful to hear that Jerry Jones is tumor-free in the aftermath of his battle with cancer. The developments of modern medicine are astounding and quite literally, life-saving.
All the best to Jerry Jones and continued health for him in his life.
