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| Top left: Jerry Jones, Top right: Tom Landry, Bottom: Southmost celebrating Cowboy victory |
"He won the game for us," stated Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in a post-game interview, looking every minute of his 82 years.
Jones, who was raised in the Rose City area of North Little Rock, a poor white area of small framed homes butted up against the Arkansas River, looked totally spent as he answered reporters questions in the tunnel after the win.(Rose City is not ghetto, but it's the only part of town my late wife Nena suggested we not search in when we bought our first home in the 70's.)
"We grew out there today," said Jones, then, commenting on the 1-1 start of the season, added that "both games helped us," referring to game 2 as a "near death experience."
While I've never actually met Jones, I've known about him since before he bought the Cowboys with money he made by leasing Arkansas state lands and discovering gas, aided and abetted by his friend, Arkla Gas VP Sheffield Nelson. Actually, Jones, Barry Switzer and Jimmy Johnson played together on Arkansas' 1964 National Championship team.
Some in the RGV dislike Jones because his first order of business in 1989 was firing Mission's Tom Landry as coach, replacing him with his old college buddy, Jimmy Johnson, but that happened 46 years ago and is not an issue with younger fans.
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