Shootout at Valley Ranch (Jerry Jones Purchases the Dallas Cowboys 1989)
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2021
- This is a show that was in the Dallas area during February-March 1989 as the Dallas Cowboys were being sold to Jerry Jones.
For more on what happened afterwards, check out this video:
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"Hands on owner" is an understatement. Lol
Without a doubt. He's danced the hokey pokey all over this team since he bought it.
Jimmy Johnson was great, but the rest of all these years since 1989 has been a beating.
Not a big fan of Jerry jones but I have a lot of respect for him as a businessman... This guy knows how to make a sale and improves product... Gotta give him that
When I was a little boy in Dallas, my dad was a huge influence for me to grow up loving Tom Landry and the Cowboys. The glitz and glamour today does not replace the heart of what the Cowboys were with Bob Lily, Drew Pearson and Staubach, etc.
Yes, the feeling is not the same.
Dallas Cowboys quit being the Dallas Cowboys when they fired Jerry Jones…. Then they became the Cowboys… You don’t fire legends!!
The cowboys and the nfl are a shadow of there former self. But I still love the cowboys.
@@ed2kou1So because he was Tom Landry he didn’t have to win?? They were absolutely horrible his last 3 years and we’re getting worse every season. He was great at one time but but the game had well passed him by
The Dallas Cowboys had a TERRIBLE owner in Bum Bright and this was a big reason for their losing seasons in the late 1980`s.
True he hated Tom Landry and one of the stipulations into buying the Cowboys is firing Tom Landry! Bum bright is a POS
Yeah, but they had the same GM and coach the whole time, the guys who were still responsible for putting the team on the field.
Jerry would say that the owner is all-important so if thats the case Bum Bright, who Tommy saw right through as a liar and unprincipled man and couldn’t stand was a big part of the slide. Win 20 straight years and you draft at the bottom every tear. No real free agency then.
35 years ago this year dallas cowboys has jerry jones
also
the year when i was born 35 years ago this year on september 20
I never forget that day it was a sad for the cowboys
Coach Landry had to go. His time had passed and the Cowboys were getting worse by the day. Jerry and Jimmy had the balls to get it fixed
This is an absolute treasure. This really needs to be archived. Changing of the guards it's absolutely fascinating!
Absolutely
I'm pretty sure it's archived
Jerry Jones is a fool.. when he was away Jimmy won championships..once Jerry Jones returned from paying off the team .. Jerry became an Ass.. and a trader to all fans in the world
Your a fool Jerry Jones
Just go away or sell the team .
I was a kid at the time. I know Tom Landry was a great coach for a long time, but I think his time had past. The culture in Dallas from 86-88 was very relaxed. Michael Irvin said in 1988, the players seemed to be there just for a paycheck. Michael was a competitor. So when Jimmy Johnson came the next year, he knew things would improve.
His time no doubt passed. But it was the way Jones fired him that was a disgrace.
Also what Jerry said about Jimmy was absolutely Right.
Thank you for uploading this video. I sat down with a cup of coffee one morning and just worked my way through it. Answered all the outstanding Q's I had about the firing, Jimmy Jones, fate of the Cowboys franchise, Schramm. Grew up watching and rooting for the Cowboys in the late 60's and 70's so Landry's firing was like a thunder strike in our family (similar to the day Bum Phillips was fired by Bud Adams in Houston). The Dallas TV station interview (featured in the middle of this video, which lasts about 30-40 min) with Landry was absolutely fascinating. I thought I had seen everything about Landry on video but this interview was new. In it, he talked about his life, the Giants, the Cowboys, his subsequent firing, his faith, players and made the seminal point why one should NEVER hold a grudge no matter how traumatic something affects you. Pure class. As Mike Ditka said in the NFL FILMS episode on Landry, "when they talk about the Dallas Cowboys, it begins and ends with one man: Tom Landry."
Very nice reply, thanks. If I have that interview, I will post it. The comment from Mike Ditka was on NFL Networks "A Football LIfe" about Tom Landry. All those shows are very well done on each and every person they have done one on. Today the Drew Pearson show was released, it was excellent.
As soon as the sale was approved by the NFL Tex Schramm resigned as president and GM no way he was going to stay with Jones
Pretty impressive to preserve this great history. I remember back in the day if you didn't watch something when it aired and didn't have a VCR to tape it if you missed it then you'd probably never see it aired again
Wow. Just stumbled across this and remember it like yesterday. I’m 57 this year but this was definitely a sad part of being a lifelong Cowboy fan. Seeing all the old anchors and reporters is a hoot too. Maybe it’s time for Jerry to hang it up like Bum Bright did. It’s been 30 years of mediocrity.
I taped a lot of stuff that was national but this local stuff is great...lots of it ive never seen.... thank you for posting ... this was great for a fan of 52 years this was really really good .... and I met Landry a few times 100% class and i actually met Jerry in 1989 .... i attended Tom Landry day Apr 22 1989 it was tremendous .... so not that i wanted Landry replaced but seeing stuff youve never seen after all these years is really exciting
Gosh I remember all this now, not in detail but I was a young teenager when all of this happened. I am from DFW and still call it home today. When all this went down it was the BIGGEST story around for a very long time. I loved Tom Landry and met him on two occasions and he was the most gentle, humble, classiest man I have ever met in my life. He was a great coach but I think deep down as much as we all hated it at the time we knew that it was time for Landry to retire. Jerry Jones offered him a chance to step down but of course Landry wasn't going to ever quit on his players, the fans or himself. Jerry Jones knew this and eventually did what he had to do, there really was no winner in that situation. Funny, 5 years later no one seemed to care about it anymore as the Cowboys were sitting on the top of the NFL as Champs. I am happy that Landry was still alive when Jones honored him and put him in the ring of honor.
It was time for him to go.
The league had passed him by.
No it didn’t they had one the division the year before… He came up with the 4-0 defense which is now known as the Zero blitz! He was building the famous o line… The game didn’t pass him by Danny White breaking his wrist was the end of Landry’s Cowboys… They were 6-2 but White broke his wrist. The game didn’t pass him by!
@@chatsworthosbornejr But Landry didn't actually draft Aikman he was fired 2 months before the draft
February 25, 2023 ( also a Saturday like it was in 1989) happy 34 th anniversary of Jerry Jones buying the Cowboys
Thank you so much!
A moment in history, indeed.
Don’t think Jerry or his family will ever pass the torch to anyone else.
Nobody else could afford to buy them
I agree there's no doubt Jerry and his family will never pass it on
Never, never, don't deal 🏈🌍🗽🗽🏈💵💵🎥♥️🙏👍
We will probably live to see it
Why would they do that? I definitely wouldn’t do that. I would make sure an teach all of my children how to grow and keep the business relevant and profitable for generations to come. Only sell if you are losing money
This deserves an Emmy award
Agreed!
JR bought the Cowboys - This was similar to when Steinbrenner bought the Yankees in 1973 but a little bigger.
Ever since Jimmy Johnson left Dallas cowboys have failed . No superbowl no NFC championship
1995 they won Super Bowl XXX It seems many want to forget that one because Jimmy wasn't the coach
That is a fake narrative they won few years after Jimmy
@@michaelleroy9281 Nobody forgot that Superbowl. We just all know that was Johnson's team not Switzer's.
Jones is such a liar. He acted like he was keeping Tex Schramm, only to fire him and take over the job himself. It's bad enough that he got rid of Tom Landry - a decision so bad, a lot of Cowboy fans dumped the team.
Bum has some haunting words here, spot on
Is that a young dale hansen ,, damn guess we were all young once
If it's a circus or clown show around Dallas Dale will have his nose in it .he is a big reason smu is a clown show today all Dale cares about is getting a story to boost his ratings
Hate Jerry Jones all you want. But in the grand scheme of things, he not only saved the Cowboys (they were actually in financial trouble when he bought them), but he made them valuable, in fact, they’re now the most valuable sports franchise in the world. Jerry also taught all NFL owners how to make money.
I don’t think Jerry could have handled the Tom Landry parting any better than he did. The media blew it way out of proportion.
I’m not a Cowboys fan by any means, but I respect Jerry Jones the businessman. $180 million to $5 billion in 32 years is a hell of an investment, not to mention Jerry World still looks great after all these years.
Not a Cowboys fan myself. But I agree that Jerry Jones has been a good owner. He has leveraged the Dallas Cowboys brand very well. But he has spread himself too thin in taking on the GM position as well. He doesn't have Jimmy Johnson's eye for talent and has resulted in poor roster management since Johnson left.
Listening to Tom Landry speak , wish I could have modeled my life like that
Don’t we all the man was pure Class you don’t see many like him..
Don't give up.
Tom Landry personified class
Jerry Jones has fired every head coach that has been fired from the Cowboys.
Bill Parcelles retired…Jerry would not let him shop for some of the groceries to cook dinner…and I’m pretty sure having T.O. Bring forced on him was the straw that broke the camel’s back
@@charlesgreen8703In other words, Jerry ran him off.
34 years ago, today.
Today is a Saturday just like it was in 1989
35 years ago this year when I was born 1989 jerry jones dallas cowboys president owner and general manager.
It's hard to believe that Jerry Jones has owned the team now for over 30 years.
There were people vilifying Jones for firing Landry and it could have been done in a more diplomatic manner, however its was mentioned that the Cowboys had missed the playoffs in 4 of the last 5 years. The situation of the Cleveland Browns and Hall of Fame Coach Paul Brown bears some similarities. Like Landry Brown seemed "behind the times" and his team had missed the playoffs for several consecutive years. In 1963, Brown was fired much to the dissatisfaction of the fans and the local media. Art Modell hired Blanton Collier as the new coach and in 1964, the Browns won the NFL Championship over what was thought to be an unbeatable Baltimore Colts team.
Landry era missed 11 playoffs in 29 years.
The Jerry Jones era first 29 seasons missed 15 playoffs and as of now at 34 seasons a total of 17 seasons of not making a playoff appearance.
34 years as of 2023
thats alot of playoffs @@michaelleroy9281
Bum Brights words are scarily accurate - “If Jerry ever goes through it (selling the team) it would be like cutting off his arm and his shoulder”
I wonder how those fans who were in that town meeting felt three years later?
This was fantastic.
Tex would have never made that trade.
The Cowboys are where they are today because of Jerry
Landry and Tex built the Cowboys… That’d be like me taking over McDonald and saying look what I did.. I just bought it I did nothing.. Jerry Jones same way!
Jerry we the fans will forgive you .. but not forgotten.
Everyone saying poor Tom. Are the one's that were calling for Landry's hat
11:30 aged about as well as anything ever has !!!
Over 35 years have passed and time has allowed us to have a better judgement of Jerry Jones. Jones has only been good at making money and not much else. His three Superbowls were an anomaly delivered by Jimmy Johnson. Jones has not built a lasting culture or system. After Jimmy, the whole Cowboys operation has been a joke. I say this as a die hard Cowboys fan. Now Cowboys fans are stuck with the Jones ad infinitum because it will be passed down the generations.
You betrayed the fans Jerry Jones.
Many diehard cowboys fans left after this and never rooted for them again
I am still here
Funny to see fan reactions. Fans have always been emotional and rarely rational. Nothing much has changed.
I loathed the ego driven Jerry for years but I think he has seen the light since 2019:with the aid of Stephen Jones. Getting rid of Garrett and the rest of that god awful coaching staff ,hiring Mike McCarthy and drafting the right players has put the Cowboys in the best position in years to go to the Super Bowl
They need to hire Sean Payton. He’s the only coach who can take full control away from Jerry and his son. It’s time for Jerry to relinquish full autonomy to the coaching staff.
Mike McCarthy sucks we need Sean Payton
@@Chaosundivided777which is exactly why Sean Peyton would NEVER Be the Cowboys coach…Do you actually think will ever relinquish full control as long as he owns the team?…if The Tuna could not do that,there’s no way Peyton could
He did what he said he was going to do...
February 25 , 1989 what a day
It's been so hard for the fans base
Tom Landry's time was over, but this is 2024, and Jerry Jones time as a winner is long gone too. He fired Landry after a few bad years, but Jones has now gone decades without a Super Bowl win. His ego has hurt the team and his ego will continue to hurt the team. Tom Landry was a true Cowboy. Jerry Jones is not. As long as JJ owns the team, the Dallas Cowboys will never win another Super Bowl.
They won’t even get to the conference championship game lol.
Cowboys had a rough patch between 1988 and 1990. 1992, they were back on top and came back to another championship, 2 Super Bowl wins in 1993 and 1994 after winning 2 in the 1970s (1972,1978). But after winning the Super Bowl in 1996, hit or miss. They weren't the same from that point on. This is the first for me seeing this, gives a good clear picture of everybody's feelings about Jerry Jones buying America's Team, Tom Landry being fired, and maybe the fallout from these events. After Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irvin left, it wasn't the same Cowboys that won games, championships, and Super Bowls. I'm still hoping they'll get back to the Super Bowl. But other than that, it was a pretty interesting story.
Actually 1986 and 1987 also
@@michaelleroy9281Danny White had his wrist broke by Carl Banks and that was the end of Tom a Landry’s Cowboys… They came into the game at 6-2…. The game didn’t pass him by he didn’t have consistency at the QB position.. He was building the O line they had Irvin and Aikman was going to be there #1 pick… I think he would’ve won at least two championships with them too..
@ed2kou1 Spot on, you're a true fan. You know your stuff.
Landry era missed 11 playoffs in 29 years.
The Jerry Jones era first 29 seasons missed 15 playoffs and as of now at 34 seasons a total of 17 seasons of not making a playoff appearance.
JJ needs to make the coach the general manager and we need a real football experienced person to be in charge of player ops or we boycott.
Yea it looked bad even when walker got traded o yea it was really like get these 2 Jerry and jimmy out of here.But when 92 came it was all history after that them teams of sorrow turned to tears of joy#How bout them Cowboys 💪🏾✅💯
Amazing how much smaller the players were 34 years ago
Tom's own players said that he didn't even know their names. The great players said this.
I may not even remember all the roster either, all coaches do. That is why the numbers on the jersey help ! Do all of us remember our high school classmate names?
Best thing that ever happened to the cowboys Landry was over the hill and the team was losing money. Dale didn't mind working for Jerry Jones.
I’m really surprised that they allowed ownership to change during the beginning stages of the new league year usually owners get changed right before the season. Let alone a head coaching change during the early stages of the off-season. Usually coaching changes will happen in January in at the latest February so they did this pretty late in modern day standards.
The league made a rule shortly after this that the owners would vote for the change, rather than just do this over night. That way it basically "slows down" the process a little bit.
It was great but it could've been even better. Jones buys the franchise and has the guts to fire landry and bring in johnson. I remeber how unpopular this was. Then it turns out to be the right move. They have amazing success. He proves all the naysayers wrong. All who doubted him. The cowboys become America's team again. They stop losing a million a month and become 1 of the most valuable again. They win multiple championships. He sets new ways of ad revenue and is a maverick at branding and figuring out the salary cap. So much went right but he couldnt stand jimmy getting alot of credit. Couldn't just stay in the office and handle buisness. It all came to a sudden end. Its a shame they could have been New England before New england acheived so much success and longevity. Smh
Great Managers and Owners UNDERSTAND they can't do it all by themselves. They hire one who knows more than they do, support them, but get out of their way.
@@rog9601 I agree
Dallas Cowboys Greatest Team Of The Early 90s ☺🏈
3 Super Bowls later...
And none since those 3 that's what many are upset about
Been a clown show ever since a waste of the most talented team ever year
God I miss this Jerry
The Dallas cowboys we're in a camouflaged chaos and all that was about to break loose what seem like the worst thing turned out to be the best thing and really the only thing to have happened
Hard to like then, hard to like now.
Jerry Jones missed it up
Jimmy Johnson is a very classy guy. Jones eventually ran him off...
Bum Bright was the absolute worst thing to happen to the Dallas Cowboys. He was the equivalent of a house flipper, but instead of fixing it up before he sold it, he burned half of it down.
Wrong ! MR. Bright saved the cowboys from bankruptcy thank god he sold team to Jerry Jones.
TRUE
Landry cold hearted a bunch of players over the years. Sent Tony D to Denver for a 4th round pick.
Jimmy johnson proved everyone wrong😁😁
He has made the cowboys a brand and his days of ownership went well in especially in the early years.
The problem is that he wants to do everything and you just can’t do that.
Yet the fans still buy the merch and enable him to keep running this insanity for them.
Texans are fickle about their football. Many of them desired Tom Landry to go because they wanted a championship again, but they moaned about how he was let go. There was no easy or delicate way to let a coach like Landry go but the change had to be made eventually. Jerry delivered on his promise, he and Jimmy brought another Lombardy trophy to Dallas. The team would go on to win a total of 3 in the 90's.
Jimmy Johnson was great hire.
And a difference maker, which is why he is in the HOF ! Jerry, get him in the Ring of Honor NOW ! I personally think if Jerry is going to do that, it will be after the next team championship.
@@rog9601 He's going into the Ring 💍 of honor on December 30, 2023
That's hilarious Jimmy Johnson checking into a hotel under an assumed name
Jimmy you will always be in the Ring of honor in our hearts.. you don't need the owner Jerry Jones. Why?? For the reasons the owner is nothing without the paying fans..
Well, he got into the Ring of Honor on December 30, 2023
Jerry Jones -Im saying the players I have are complete trash and im trading Herschel for my 90s Dynasty.
Jerry Jones did a great job on the socks and jocks
Wise choice from O. A. Bum Bright. RIP. Change had to be made and Jerry Jones was the right choice. Just look at the marketability of the Cowboys now. Just like living, no one coaches forever; even the great ones like coach Landry and GM Stram.
That Brand and marketing success and long past SB trophies is one of the problems that translates into players thinking they're all that when they haven't achieved much.
You mean Schramm Stram was the coach in KC
It was all good until after the 1995 season
Nice
and a mere 3 years later success Super Bowls
That guy spoke for everyone. 28:40
Buddy Ryan was bad too. One thing about this event is that no matter the sport, there are not many coaches who last that long and have that kind of reputation. We may never see an event like this again just because coaches do not last that long and have that sort of legacy.
If Coach Landry would have answered the phone. Coach would have know
There was no phone call he heard it on the TV. It was a bad PR incident for sure.
@@rog9601 Coach Landry got out of town
That's why Jerry had to fly to Austin. To
Tell him.
@@dr.roberts4508 There was a phone call, but it was from Tex Schramm not Jerry Jones. And it was after the fact.
Landry needed to go. Way past his time. Everyone in Dallas wanted him gone until he got fired. Game had passed him by 7 years earlier. 29 years was plenty.
In all actuality, Landry should have retired in 1983.
Some people say that but I never hear anybody suggest Jerry Jones retire.
5:10 wow lol
Jerry Jones- Im gonna be walking down to the field on gameday and tell Jimmy what to do. 😆.
Jerry please no more.
The day the cowboys died
17:33 that's not a real Cowboys fan
39:40 Why did he refer to God as 'we?'
Who would name their kid Bum?
His real name was HR Bright ( Harvey Roberts)
Tom Landry wasn't winning. His time had come
look how long it been cowboys last NFC championship game . how stupid Jerry Jones is thought he was the man and want Jimmy Johnson gone cuz Jimmy Johnson was getting all credit rebuilding cowboys so fast and winning back to back Superbowl's well that wasn't going to fly with Jerry Jones cuz of his ego . if Jimmy Johnson never levels cowboys probably wins 4-5 Superbowl's with Jimmy Johnson so pretty much Jerry Jones is one of worst owners in NFL only thing he care about still making his millions Jerry Jones careless about cowboys fans
Now 28 years
Ancient history
@@michaelleroy9281How bout them Packers!!!
Bum Bright saved the Cowboys. Thank you MR. Bright .
NO he didn’t!
Under Bum Bright, the Cowboys players were the worst under paid players in the NFL. Compare All Pro Bob Lillys' salary to any defensive player of that era. Criminal.
@@tonystephens6858bright was not the owner until 1984
i always will love coach landry but coach landry probably should have been out couple years prior
Bum was a better owner
Clint Murchison was a better owner before Bright
Because Murchison didn't say anything in the press. Bum Bright wanted Landry fired for years.
Disrespected laundry Disrespected Jimmy an now he got what he deserved the past 30 years he has took the most talented team year in an year out an made it a clown circus an a joke of a football team it socks to loose buy when you year in an year out spend the money he foes an gets the players he's had an it gets wasted year in an year out thanks jerry.
That I'd not exactly what happened they needed to make a change amd Jimmy wanted out
Jerry just retire.
He would have to sell the team to actually do that
As a lifelong steelers fan bum bighht and Jerry Jones disrespect coach Landry Jerry Jones let coach Landry he and Jimmy Jones are here were is the respect for Landry Jerry Jones ego 1989 no respect bum bright wanted tex to fired coach Landry tea didn't have the heart to do it
Petits Norman quoting Shakespeare reminds how uneducated today’s players are.
Grow up.
Blah blah blah
the most overrated coach ever 44-36-0. wow first 3 years were losing seasons
Not overrated, he actually was quite accomplished. He did more in his 5 years than MOST coaches do their whole career. Go back and read the history of what he did from scratch.
His 3 rd season 1991 the Cowboys were 11-5 back and and do some history of the team
Jimmy and Jerry rebuilt the franchise and all people ro is trash them