NFL Network- Dallas Cowboys Season Kickoff?

Hero · Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:36 pm

Why in the hell do the Cowboys get a hour show just for them? Then to top that off the show after that is a high school football game titled the Jerry Jones Classic. This is favoritism to the max. I can see if it is a local network broadcast but this is on the NFL Network. WTF?

I know I'm a cowboy hater but am I wrong here?

o-pus #40 in B major · Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:46 pm

Yeah, I've always been a cowboy hater, too...Jerry Jones Classic?

Hero · Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:52 pm

Network Schedule
ON AIR
Dallas Cowboys Season Kickoff
The Dallas Cowboys kickoff the 2022 season with a celebration hosted by Michael Irvin.
11:00 PM
Rockwall High School vs. Cedar Hill High School
Jerry Jones Classic. From Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Tex.

o-pus #40 in B major · Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:57 pm

Between Michael Irvin and the kids put me down for the Classic.

Bears Whiskey Nut · Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:06 am

Jerry Jones has A LOT of pull in the NFL right now. More than any other owner. All he had to do was go to Goodell and say, give me this highlight of the Cowboys or I'll do this (whatever), and Roger was going to give it to him.

G08 · Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:55 am

Hero wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:36 pm Why in the hell do the Cowboys get a hour show just for them? Then to top that off the show after that is a high school football game titled the Jerry Jones Classic. This is favoritism to the max. I can see if it is a local network broadcast but this is on the NFL Network. WTF?

I know I'm a cowboy hater but am I wrong here?

Isn't Jerry Jones the founder, or at least part owner, of NFL Network?

Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:23 am

The reason is money.

Jerry Jones is one of the most powerful and influential people in professional sports.

This via an Athletic article surveying 26 NFL agents:

“Hands down, without a doubt, No. 1, and anyone who says otherwise is an absolute idiot. Jerry Jones is the shadow commissioner of the National Football League. … He has made more rain for more owners than any man in the history of professional football in America. He single-handedly backstabbed Dean Spanos and the Chargers organization with what he did for Stan Kroenke in the Rams deal, which was obviously in the best interests of the NFL. He’s made Roger Goodell his puppet. He’s involved intimately in almost every marketing deal that the NFL has done over a billion dollars. And he has brought the windfall to all of these owners.”

https://theathletic.com/3539313/2022/08 ... s-jackson/

Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:38 am

Jerry Jones also damn near funds high school football in it's entirety here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He pours so so much money into these communities that it's not surprising that they have games named after him.

He's also the chairman of the NFL owned and operated media committee...which includes the NFL Network and RedZone

RichH55 · Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:20 am

Yep - plus there is a lot of downtime on the NFL network

Arkansasbear · Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:33 am

They are "America's Team."

I'm smack dab in the middle of Cowboy country. The only good thing is one of my good friends holds a "Senior Director" title with them, so can get good seats for the Bears game this week.

Tue Aug 30, 2022 10:18 am

Arkansasbear wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:33 am They are "America's Team."

I'm smack dab in the middle of Cowboy country. The only good thing is one of my good friends holds a "Senior Director" title with them, so can get good seats for the Bears game this week.

Same. I'm about 2 miles from The Star.

Arkansasbear · Tue Aug 30, 2022 11:30 am

wab wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 10:18 am
Arkansasbear wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:33 am They are "America's Team."

I'm smack dab in the middle of Cowboy country. The only good thing is one of my good friends holds a "Senior Director" title with them, so can get good seats for the Bears game this week.
Same. I'm about 2 miles from The Star.

You have ti worse than I do then. My dislike of them of has lessened over the years. Likely because despite having a ton of talent they still don't do much post-season wise. Because of that their "fans" don't say as much.

The worst was when they exploded with Aikman and crew and everyone would tell me how they ALWAYS supported the team and went to games EVERY year. I tended to go once a year when they sucked to watch some team I liked and could get great seats and then would move to even better seats that were empty. NO ONE was at the games.

thunderspirit · Tue Aug 30, 2022 2:12 pm

I can simultaneously dislike Jerry Jones with the fury of 1000 suns, and still know he's made the NFL and its owners a ton of money.

They love him for it. Hell, I might too, in their shoes.

otis · Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:18 pm

i do take an absurd joy in watching them lose in the playoffs. that dismayed look of "this isn't supposed to happen" on all of the cowboys always makes the bears season not hurt as much

o-pus #40 in B major · Wed Aug 31, 2022 12:02 am

otis wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:18 pm i do take an absurd joy in watching them lose in the playoffs. that dismayed look of "this isn't supposed to happen" on all of the cowboys always makes the bears season not hurt as much

Yogi da Bear · Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:16 am

Hero wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:36 pm Why in the hell do the Cowboys get a hour show just for them? Then to top that off the show after that is a high school football game titled the Jerry Jones Classic. This is favoritism to the max. I can see if it is a local network broadcast but this is on the NFL Network. WTF?

I know I'm a cowboy hater but am I wrong here?

Yeah, I hate the Cowboys so much, I wish threads on only them were kept to the NFL General Discussion forum and not placed in Halas Hall. I don't need to see this shit and I really don't care. Fuck the Cowboys.

Grizzled · Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:45 am

Lived for almost 20 years in Texas. It was hard as a Cowboys hater to see how they were treated. Loved it when they had their hearts snatched away in the Ice Bowl. Then they fell so low, fired Tom Landry, got sold. Unfortunately they bounced back with a vengeance with Jimmy Johnson but then mananged to f* that up when Jones couldn't stand all the attention his coach was getting and they parted ways, with Dallas not winning a Super Bowl since Switzer with Johnson's players.

Hero · Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:47 am

Yogi da Bear wrote: ↑Wed Aug 31, 2022 1:16 am
Hero wrote: ↑Mon Aug 29, 2022 10:36 pm Why in the hell do the Cowboys get a hour show just for them? Then to top that off the show after that is a high school football game titled the Jerry Jones Classic. This is favoritism to the max. I can see if it is a local network broadcast but this is on the NFL Network. WTF?

I know I'm a cowboy hater but am I wrong here?
Yeah, I hate the Cowboys so much, I wish threads on only them were kept to the NFL General Discussion forum and not placed in Halas Hall. I don't need to see this shit and I really don't care. Fuck the Cowboys.

Great point. They don't deserve a thread here. Move it!

dplank · Tue Sep 06, 2022 7:42 am

wab wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 8:38 am Jerry Jones also damn near funds high school football in it's entirety here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. He pours so so much money into these communities that it's not surprising that they have games named after him.

He's also the chairman of the NFL owned and operated media committee...which includes the NFL Network and RedZone

He bought my last company just to bring pro football tech to youth sports - he’s WAY into youth sports.

AZ_Bearfan · Wed Sep 07, 2022 11:42 pm

dplank · Thu Sep 08, 2022 9:57 am

hahaha AZ...

I can't help myself. It's NFL football, tonight, and I'm friggin excited! And what a game! Will be rooting for the Bills tonight and will be real curious to see how the Ramrods use ARob. Should be a doozy.

Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:00 am

Yeah, I have pretty much structured my whole day around football tonight.

Hero · Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:00 pm

Freaking Bills. WOW

Bears Whiskey Nut · Sun Sep 11, 2022 11:02 pm

Jerry’s grand opening game didn’t work out so well. They got housed by Tampa, and Dak has to have surgery on his thumb.