The mayor of Dallas wants a second team in the city. Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, thinks rather little of the proposal.

Dallas/Munich – Eric Johnson, the mayor of Dallas, made headlines earlier this week. Via Twitter, he suggested his city could get a second NFL team. The reasoning: “We are about to overtake the metropolis of Chicago to become the

The answer is Dallas. Why? We are about to pass the Chicago metro and become the 3 metro in the US, which would make us the largest US metro WITHOUT 2 teams. Football is king here. Dallas needs an expansion team and we would be able to sustain 2 @NFL teams better than LA or NY. https://t.co/ikG0oeZq4T

– Mayor Eric Johnson (@Johnson4Dallas) May 5, 2022

Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, is less enthusiastic about the idea.

“Well, I like the mayor,” he told The Dallas Morning News diplomatically at first. “I like him personally, but he doesn’t have the depth. He doesn’t have the knowledge that others have about how unique Dallas is and how we enjoy the interest in the Cowboys. He wouldn’t want to dilute that in terms of Dallas if he knew as much and spent as much time in the sport as I do.”

Asked if he could confirm that the NFL had no plans for a second team in Dallas, he replied, “You can be sure that the NFL would not support another team. And that’s because of the value that the game and the NFL gets from having the Dallas Cowboys as one of its most popular teams. It says logic alone that the NFL doesn’t want to dilute that. “