![]() ![]() “Donald Trump and Marla Maples asked to give the award to surprise me,” Jones says. One of the people who presented the award in ’93 happens to be running for president. One shelf over sits the first ESPY award that was handed out for Outstanding Team. ![]() Former commissioner Pete Rozelle put his signature on it 56 years ago. ![]() Where to start? Jones points to the title of certificate that grants the Cowboys membership into the NFL. One memory sparks another as he jams parts of four decades into little more than an hour. The 73-year-old patriarch of the Cowboys conducts a tour of his office in one of his final days at Valley Ranch. The photos, the trophies, the statues and most of the 1980s furniture that adorns his current office will make the trip northeast on the Sam Rayburn Tollway. When he returns three weeks later, he will move into his new office at the team’s state-of-the-art facility in Frisco. Jones departs for training camp in Southern California later this month. “We want this going to our new world headquarters at The Star.” They were icons and have proven to be icons in the NFL. “The real world is the main reason I bought the Cowboys is because of the kind of respect I had for Tom Landry and Tex Schramm. “I got D’s and F’s for the transition and actually heard the term ‘being disrespectful,’” Jones says. It’s his tribute to the previous general manager and to the Cowboys’ rich history. The same goes for the tan couch and granite coffee table on the opposite side of the room where some of the most significant negotiations in franchise history have taken place.Īll of the furniture that was in this Valley Ranch office the day Jones purchased the club 27 years ago remains. This is the desk where Tex Schramm sat and made decisions before some upstart from Arkansas took over. The desk is the first thing to catch his eye as he looks around his office. Where to start? The Cowboys owner doesn’t live in the past, but he loves to visit from time to time to share his stories. Jerry Jones rubs his hands together and smiles the way people do when they relish what comes next. ![]()
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