September 06, 2014

SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle:

A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.

posted by huddle to general at 06:00 AM - 1 comment

Skip Bayliss thinks Jerry Jones is right about Jimmy Johnson.

I'm not a Jones defender by any stretch -- he has turned a storied franchise into a mediocrity -- but I've heard enough (and seen enough back in my newspaper days) to think Johnson earned Jones' animosity many times over.

Johnson, at least back then, was a sorry excuse for a human being in his personal relationships. Cheryl Hall of the Dallas Morning News recounts an interview she did of him: "The day Jerry Jones hired Johnson, the new coach took his wife to dinner and fired her. He said to Hall, "I told her, 'I can either be head football coach of the Dallas Cowboys or married to you. I've decided to be head football coach of the Dallas Cowboys.'"

posted by rcade at 07:35 AM on September 06, 2014

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