Is there a Super Bowl window for the Dallas Cowboys? If there is, owner Jerry Jones is making sure it doesn’t really open – an opinion piece.

For 35 years, Jerry Jones has been the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. The NFL franchise has celebrated a number of successes since 1989, including three Super Bowl victories in the 1992, 1993 and 1995 seasons.

But the Cowboys’ glory days are long gone. The last time the team was in the final for the Vince Lombardi Trophy was in 1996. That is not what “America’s Team” aspires to.

And yet little has changed in recent years. They have not made it further than the divisional playoffs in the past ten seasons. The 82-year-old Jones is still at the helm of the franchise.

However, the Cowboys could hardly have given him a more disappointing birthday present on Sunday. The 9-47 embarrassment against the Detroit Lions was the worst home defeat in franchise history.

But Jones also has to take some of the blame for this gift himself. After all, the owner is responsible for the recent sporting misery.

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After the debacle against the Lions, Jones spoke of an “alarming” defeat. However, some of the sporting decisions that Jones has made in recent years are also alarming.

The great successes under Jones should not be swept under the table. What the owner has achieved with the three Super Bowl victories within a few years of his takeover deserves the highest recognition.

And given the fact that the multi-billionaire has made the Cowboys what they are today – the most valuable sports franchise in the world – he deserves respect. According to a 2023 Forbes magazine report, the Dallas Cowboys are worth around $9.2 billion.

All of this is primarily due to Jones’ work and should not be left out of any criticism.

And yet the so-called “recency bias”, the tendency to attach greater importance to more recent events, means that Jones is also heavily criticized by many Cowboys fans.

Because where there’s a lot of money, a lot of money is spent. Too much – in the case of the Cowboys!