A Letter to Jerry Jones
Dear GM Jerry:
First of all yes, I did enjoy those
three Super Bowls. I enjoyed them very
much. Thank you. But it’s been a VERY long time since that
last Super Bowl and I think it’s about time for some long overdue changes. The last really good move you made as
owner/GM/head cook/dish washer of the Dallas Cowboys was to hire Jimmy
Johnson. Then, because poor little you
felt you weren’t getting enough credit fired the coach that had just won
back-to-back titles (BTW-Title three was Jimmy’s too and you know it).
It’s been seventeen years of
absolute garbage coming out of Valley Ranch.
The fans of this team (of which I am one) expect better. Many of us were fans long before you bought
this team. And a large portion of us
will still be here long after you’re gone.
Is this really what you want you legacy to be? You’ve been a great owner. But let’s face facts. As a GM you stink!
You’ve spent the last seventeen
seasons plus one draft trying to prove to the world what a genius you are by
making idiotic draft trades and signing washed up free agents to ridiculous
contracts. You’ve hired one puppet coach
after another with one exception and you only hired him to get a new stadium
built.
You, Jerry Jones, are a narcissist
that’s surrounded himself with sycophants and I despise you because of what you’ve
done and continue to do to the football team I’ve loved since long before you
signed a check. I, along with most of my
friends, were rabid Cowboys fans but over the last seventeen years you’ve
slowly drained that passion from us and replaced it with apathy. There was a time when I wouldn’t miss a Cowboys
game come hell or high water. Now if
that collection of ill-fitting parts is playing I might watch if I have nothing
better to do. And I can’t begin to tell
you how angry that makes me.
Isn’t it time you stop tarnishing
the star you’re so proud to own? Stop
ruining Sunday afternoons and nights and Monday nights and Thanksgivings for
the millions of people who consider themselves Cowboys fans. You’re travelling down the same path that Al
Davis took the Raiders down. Is that
what you want for this team? Do you want
it to get to the point where that monument you built to your ego is barely half
full for games?
Resign as GM and do what you do
best: Market and promote the Cowboys and your stadium. Make all the stupid rapping pizza commercials
you want and let someone who knows what the hell they’re doing run the football
team.
Sincerely,
A Very Disgruntled Fan