Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones is remarkably upbeat. But he has broken down and cried after three losses during his ownership.
The first came in January 1995 when the Cowboys lost to San Francisco in the NFC Championship Game to fall short in their bid to three-peat. “I couldn’t hold it in there in San Francisco that day,” Jones recalls. “I knew we had the better team.”
The second time was when the Cowboys opened the 2002 season with a 19-10 loss to the Houston Texans. Watching his team beaten by an expansion team in its first game in a beautiful, state-of-the-art stadium was tough. “Any loss kills you,” Jones said. “But that one down there with our fan base, with all we had done… “I was the leading proponent of getting Houston the team. I wanted those fans to have their own team even though I knew at that time half of them were Cowboys fans. To go down and get beat on opening night by an expansion team was absolutely a low point.”
The third time came five years later when a 13-3 regular season ended with a 21-17 loss to the New York Giants in the divisional round. “That’s where I went to the place I used to go to when they would call and tell me that I had just lost all of my money on a dry hole,” Jones said.
