• Jerry Jones was rooting for rival team, the Eagles, during Super Bowl

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    Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealed he was pulling for the
    Philadelphia Eagles to win Super Bowl LII over the New England
    Patriots despite the two teams’ rivalry.

    Jones told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the Eagles’ Super Bowl
    victory puts some added pressure on the Cowboys. The two teams
    are in the same division.

    "I think it raises the bar. I think it puts pressure on the
    Cowboys," Jones said. "They've took it down to the bone and
    brought it back up and have a world championship and we've been
    doing the same thing. Where is ours? That's fair. That's fair."

    The Cowboys have not won a Super Bowl championship since 1995.

    Jones said despite the rivalry the Cowboys and Eagles have, he
    was hoping they would win the game.

    "As much as we have the rivalry that we have, and as frustrating
    as it was for the Cowboys not to be playing, as much as all of
    that, I was proud of [the Eagles], given that narrow set of
    circumstances, could root for them," Jones said. "That takes it
    right down to just absolutely no choice, you either do or you
    die. And I want to go again."

    The Cowboys had high expectations going into the 2017 season but
    star quarterback Dak Prescott did not play as well as 2016 and
    star running back Ezekiel Elliott was suspended for six games
    over domestic violation allegations. Jones worked tirelessly to
    overturn the decision but the NFL ruled the decision stood.

    Jones gave the Eagles credit for winning despite being without
    their star quarterback Carson Wentz.

    "They didn't have a quarterback either, and they got one, and
    then they lost him and they got one," Jones said. "You didn't
    have Zeke [Ezekiel Elliott], so good excuse, but they didn't
    have a lot of their players. So just the fact that they did it
    the way they did it, really for me it sure eliminates one of the
    real excuses. You can say that you just can't have the kind of
    depth, but they didn't have necessarily that kind of depth but
    they had enough that they shifted some of the ability of the
    team to execute their parts where they had their regulars, and
    we didn't do that.”

    Jones recently made headlines after it was reported last week
    that the NFL was exploring options to get more than $2 million
    in reimbursement for legal fees from Jones over his threat to
    derail NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract extension. He
    also supported Elliott’s two-month legal battle to avoid the
    suspension.

    Dallas News reported Jones will meet with Goodell Monday in an
    attempt to appeal to the NFL commissioner in order to drop the
    legal fees.

    "I think I'm going to be pretty limited in my comments because
    of the pending hearing that we have," Jones said. "But a hearing
    before the Commissioner is like a courtroom. You separate the
    wheat from the chaff, and you get right into the facts as they
    are, and I welcome that.

    "Looking forward to my time with him regarding both the issues
    of how we were involved or not involved in the Ezekiel Elliott
    issue as well as the issue of what we did or didn't do relative
    to his contract negotiation. Those will be the subject areas,
    but the key thing is it's really factual...you...address the
    facts. I know he wants to know that, and I want him to know what
    the facts are."

    http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2018/03/05/jerry-jones-was-rooting- for-rival-team-eagles-during-super-bowl.html
     

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