Jerry Jones

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Jerry Jones, 2015

Jerrel Wayne "Jerry" Jones (born October 13, 1942 in Los Angeles ) is the owner of the Dallas Cowboys , an American football team in the National Football League (NFL). Since Jones owned the Cowboys, they have won the Super Bowl three times .

career

Jones grew up in Little Rock , Arkansas and attended high school there , where he made his first experiences with American football as a running back . During his studies at the University of Arkansas , he played with the Arkansas Razorbacks as a guard . The college team was declared national college football champion with him in 1964 . After graduating, he began setting up an oil company in Oklahoma . The company is still in his possession today.

In 1989 Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys , which at the time were one of the worst teams in the National Football League (NFL). One of his first acts was the sacking of head coach Tom Landry , the legendary trainer of the Cowboys. For this dismissal he is still under criticism from the fans, especially since the long-time general manager of the Cowboys, Tex Schramm , announced his resignation after the dismissal of his companion Landry. Jones established his old student colleague Jimmy Johnson as the new coach. Together with him he developed a new concept to bring the team back to the top of the league. The Cowboys won the Super Bowl ( Super Bowl XXVII and Super Bowl XXVIII ) with Jimmy Johnson as head coach after the 1992 and 1993 seasons . Under his successor Barry Switzer , they won the Super Bowl XXX after the 1995 season .

Jerry Jones has three children with his wife Gene, Stephen, Charlotte and Jerry (Jr.). He is a member of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017 .

capital

The assets of Jerry Jones is on the Forbes list in 2018 with 5.6 billion US dollars specified. This puts him in 321 place on Forbes' list of the richest people in the world.

source

  • Jens Plassmann: NFL - American Football. The game, the stars, the stories (= Rororo 9445 rororo Sport ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-499-19445-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Everything you need to know about the 2017 Pro Football Hall of Fame class on ESPN .com. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ Jerry Jones. In: forbes.com. Forbes, accessed March 31, 2018 : "Real Time Net Worth As of 3/20/15 $ 5.6 Billion"

Web links

Dallas Cowboys members in the Pro Football Hall of Fame


Herb Adderley (1980) | Troy Aikman (2006) | Larry Allen (2013) | Lance Alworth (1978) | Gil Brandt (2019) | Tony Dorsett (1994) | Mike Ditka (1988) | Forrest Gregg (1977) | Charles Haley (2015) | Bob Hayes (2009) | Michael Irvin (2007) | Jerry Jones (2017) | Tom Landry (1990) | Bob Lilly (1980) | Tommy McDonald (1998) | Terrell Owens (2018) | Bill Parcells (2013) | Mel Renfro (1996) | Deion Sanders (2011) | Tex Schramm (1991) | Emmitt Smith (2010) | Jackie Smith (2001) | Roger Staubach (1985) | Randy White (1994) | Rayfield Wright (2006)


personal data
SURNAME Jones, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Jerrel Wayne (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player, entrepreneur, and team owner
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California