ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jerry Jones has proven you can be one of the most powerful men in American sports and a bad franchise owner at the same time. Someone should actually award him a trophy for pulling that off.
Lord knows Jones could use a trophy. He'd just lost by 28 points at home to the Philadelphia Eagles -- the runaway leader in the NFC East -- when he stood outside the Dallas Cowboys ' locker room talking about the mess of a franchise he purchased way back when. "Sure, we have issues," Jones said Sunday night, "but nothing like the issues we had when I came in 1989.