Cowboys’ Jerry Jones says Jimmy Johnson in Ring of Honor is ‘right thing to do’, duo ‘past’ credit fight

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ARLINGTON, Texas —  The hatchet that has divided two of the Dallas Cowboys’ biggest legends, Pro Football Hall of Fame head coach Jimmy Johnson and Pro Football Hall of Fame owner and general manager Jerry Jones, is finally being buried Saturday night. Jones is finally inducting Johnson into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor. 

“It happened because it’s the right thing to do,” Jones said.    

Johnson will join his former Hall of Fame players Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin, Larry Allen, Darren Woodson and Charles Haley in the Ring of Honor with an induction ceremony at halftime against the NFC North champion Detroit Lions. Once inducted, he will be the 24th member of the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor, a group compromised of 20 players, two head coaches (Johnson and Tom Landry) and two team executives (Gil Brandt and Tex Schramm). 

This momentous event in Cowboys nation occurred because of a chance encounter between Jones, 81, and Johnson, 80, at SoFi Stadium in Week 6 during Dallas’ 20-17 win at the Los Angeles Chargers on “Monday Night Football.” Johnson was in town a day after working his game day duties with Fox Sports NFL coverage, and Jones’ daughter Charlotte, a Cowboys’ executive vice president and Chief Brand Officer, along with Aikman, ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” color commentator, were able to get the two to agree to an official at The Star in Frisco, Texas later in October. That’s when Jones officially offered Johnson a Ring of Honor spot. 

“It’s funny because every time I’m with Jerry even here for the last hour or so, we tell stories back and forth and laugh and cut up and kind of like Terry Bradshaw said when he saw us together, the whole thing, he said, ‘well, when you two guys are together, it’s like a couple of brothers, you know, laughing, cutting up and telling stories,'” Jimmy Johnson said. “We tell some stories, some of them we can’t talk about here. We…

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Author : Garrett Podell

Publish date : 2023-12-31 01:41:34

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