Jerry Jones rumbled into Dallas, Texas like a drunken Brahma bull stumbling into a Helzberg Diamonds store. What he didn’t destroy, he crapped all over.
First, he ignored the fact that he had one of the NFL’s greatest icons still occupying the head coach’s office and brought in his equally brash and classless drinking buddy Jimmy [ Read More ]
There was a time when the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins comprised one of the NFL’s fiercest and most notable rivalries. All of the cliches about “throw the records out the window when these two hook up” really did apply.
There was no love lost between the teams. Cowboys players like Staubach and Lilly really did [ Read More ]
Jerry Jones and the Way We Were
Can it already be twenty years? Is it really possible that it was two whole decades ago that Jerry Jones informed the disbelieving Dallas Cowboys nation that he would be involved in (and in charge of) everything regarding the team, right down to the “socks and jocks?”
It has [ Read More ]
“Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
~ George Will, author, commentator, humorist
The game of [ Read More ]
“Early in the third quarter, the Giants had their backs to the wall, just as they had all season. They were an established NFL power in America’s greatest city, with a lineup of star athletes expected to dominate the league for years to come…”
So writes Mark Bowden, author of The Best Game Ever. With an [ Read More ]
As part of the SilverandBlueBlood.com Top Ten Top Ten Lists, I present for your amusement, argumentation, and amendment the top ten Dallas Cowboys non-players of all time. This would include coaches, management, ownership, and all other non-player personnel.
Plenty of men have played a role in team history and then gone on to make their real [ Read More ]
Jerry Jones recently announced that there would be no new additions to the Ring of Honor in the 2010-11 football season. For a man with such business acumen, that seems like a horribly short-sighted decision. Of all the years to forgo such a celebration! The debut season in the new stadium is tailor-made for the [ Read More ]
Wonder what would prompt a man on the backside of his 40s to dedicate a blog – and a good deal of time and effort – to a NFL team? The answer, for me, is simple: it is a part of who I am.
I was a child of the sixties, and a teen in the [ Read More ]
