Blogging The Boys
It’s a tumultuous time for the Dallas Cowboys. They’re not winning enough football games, they don’t appear to be big movers before the trade deadline, and Jerry Jones publicly announced that he cares more about his oil business than he does about fixing the defense of his football team. Yay! Good times.
The hits just keep coming, and it can put fans in a dark place. With a season that appears to be going nowhere and an owner who, whether by a slip or in jest, announced to everyone where his priorities are, how are fans expected to generate any sense of hope for this football team? It’s easy to want to just check out and invest our energy elsewhere, as this ongoing rollercoaster that is the Cowboys just doesn’t seem worth it anymore.
But hold up a second.
The Cowboys are an adventure. For as long as I have been alive, that’s never not been true. Everything about them garners attention, and it’s been exponentially exacerbated since Jerry Jones bought the team in 1989. And while it’s easy to fall into this belief that the Cowboys have an incompetent front office that will never amount to anything because they are led by an inept, power-hungry, wealthy old man, we should stop and think about this a little bit before drawing conclusions.
Jerry’s recent comments where he indicates he is more concerned about the potential gains of $100 billion worth of new oil than he is about fixing the Cowboys’ defense are pretty incriminating. And it’s a slap in the face to Cowboys’ fans who have to sit and watch their red carpet defense struggle week after week. Understandably, people are upset about this, but there are other elements here that should be taken into account before getting too out of sorts about this.
Jerry is a businessman. We all know this. It’s his success in the oil business that allowed him to buy the Cowboys in the first place. It’s fine that he has other business affairs. Comstock Resources Inc. is a big deal worth over $5 billion. And if they are close to hitting the motherload in Texas, that will unleash an abundance of gas supplies, of course, this oil man is going to be pretty jacked about it. $100 billion is more than seven times the value of the Cowboys, who are the most valuable franchise in the NFL. If Jerry wants to be excited about this, more power to him.
While Jones’ commitment to Comstock is understandable, was it really necessary to make that comment about fixing the defense? No, it wasn’t, but that’s the Jerry Jones way. There is such a long history of Jones saying silly things that you could fill a book with it. He’s notorious for inserting his foot in his mouth or conjuring up some inappropriate analogies. Jones is just Jones, and that’s never going...
