They will embalm him like Lenin.
You know the whole thing about Jerry and Landry is interesting to me. I moved to Dallas in 1982 and lived there until 1994. When Jerry bought the team, Landry was being ripped on local talk shows (the Norm Hitzges show; I listened to it every morning without fail. I even heard Mel Kiper on Norms' show before he became famous and when I called the 800# to buy his magazine he answered the phone!) and the media in general. The consensus was the game had passed him by evidenced by his stubborn use of the flex defense. He went 7-9, 7-8 (strike shortened season) and 3-13 his last three years. I believe Schramm was trying to convince Tom to retire gracefully (shades of Mack?). Paul Hackett was a coach in waiting (or so we thought as fans). But then Jerry bought the team and guess what? Overnight, Tom's firing turned him from the old man who wouldn't let go to "OUR TOM!" It's almost as if Jerry did him a favor. This is not to take up for Jerry because my enmity for him goes pretty deep considering I don't even know the guy.
Speaking of Jerry... my personal opinion is this. He is an egomaniac and a pathological liar. He jerked the steering wheel away from Jimmy Johnson and the result is 22 years of failure. TWENTY TWO YEARS! There are babies who were born back then that have now graduated from college with no idea why the Dallas Cowboys were once known as America's team. They have no idea about their former legacy of sustained excellence. Jones destroyed all of that in his zeal to be known as a football man. He has failed miserably but his ego is so pathological that it doesn't affect him in the slightest. Why? Because he's a greedy sociopath who measures success solely by the acquisition of wealth. NOTHING else matters. And I believe the reason he wants the players to stand during the anthem is not because he is patriotic; instead it is because he does not want to alienate the fans. How ironic given that he doesn't care about alienating them over the teams performance on the field. But the facts are that he has somehow successfully decoupled results on the field from the entertainment value of watching the game. That is his genius. Look at the stadium! Look at the scoreboard! See and be seen! Look, it's the Cowboys! Look, it's Jerry Jones in his box! The whole thing is like a circus or a movie and the results on the scoreboard are merely a sideshow. The evidence is in the value of the team. His gift as a salesman is unparalleled.
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