Jerry Jones didn’t just make a cameo in Taylor Sheridan’s hit show Landman… he might actually be a bit of a “Landman” himself in real life.
The Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager often angers fans of “America’s Team.” Sports fans often wonder why team owners don’t go all in to try and win championships every year. The answer just might be that the owners are more worried about turning a profit on the organization than turning the organization into a winner.
After all, sports is just a business, like everything else.
Some Dallas Cowboys faithful still hold out hope that the 83-year-old Jerry Jones will start putting the team first in his business decisions. But this latest quote from the Wall Street Journal showcases that the owner and GM of the Cowboys has bigger fish to fry.
Jones was talking with the WSJ about Comstock Resources, which is a drilling company that he’s poured over $1 billion into. Jerry was excitedly discussing how the company that he’s greatly invested in has started to drill in the East Texas area, and the Cowboys owner took a dig at his own team whilst explaining the monetary value of the Texas drilling:
“There’s $100 billion present value with gas out there. That’s why I’m talking to you on the telephone rather than trying to fix our defense with the Dallas Cowboys.”
Whoops… that’s not what Dallas Cowboys fans want to hear.
And the defense of “America’s Team” sure could use some fixing. There are 32 teams in the NFL, and the Dallas Cowboys defense is ranked 31st in points allowed per game, 31st in yards allowed per game, and 31st in touchdowns allowed per game. As you might imagine, that makes the Cowboys the 31st ranked defense in the league (only the Cincinnati Bengals are worse).
I do wonder if trading away their generational defensive talent in Micah Parsons hurt the Dallas Cowboys?
But Jerry isn’t worried about that. He’s focused more on the billions of dollars that’s waiting to be drilled right out of the ground in East Texas. I’m starting to think that he’s living out the TV show Landman in real life. Jerry Jones is just trying to get richer and richer, and there’s a good amount of people (Cowboys fans) that hate him for that.
It’s definitely a far cry from the love that Jerry Jones received for his Landman cameo at the end of the hit show’s first season. His surprise appearance was very impressive… and just imagine if he could channel the focus he has for acting and oil drilling into fielding a competitive defense for the Dallas Cowboys.
Based upon the monologue he delivered in the show, the signs have always been there for him being honed in on the oil and gas industry just as much (if not more) than the NFL team he owns:
“I made my mind up a long time ago that I was going to work with my kids. And they’re involved in everything. When I got the Cowboys, I got it so we could all work together. I thought I was doing it for them, but the one that got the most out of it was me…
You could have them there because they’re the people you spent your life with… not just Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’m pretty proud of them Cowboys, I’m pretty proud of the stuff we’ve done in oil and gas. It pales in comparison to how proud I am to have lived my life working with my kids.”
