AP.- Jimmy Johnson y Jerry Jones They wanted the rumors of their estrangement to go unnoticed almost 30 years ago, when they had just teamed up as coach and owner to win consecutive Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys.
This breakup was the reason why Jones It took so long to put Johnson in the Team Ring of Honorbut that no longer matters for both members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Johnson He joined Tom Landry tonight as the only coaches along with the 19 players and two executives in the exclusive group of one of the NFL’s historic franchises. The ceremony was scheduled for halftime of the game. Dallas vs. Detroit Saturday night.
“You can say what you want about my human reaction or my weaknesses, but I say it today. He is there because he is right. I was going to reach the Ring of Honor. Whether I exalted him or my children,” he said Jones before the match.
One of the theories behind the abrupt end of Johnson’s tenure in 1994 was a dispute over who should receive credit for the dramatic turnaround in Dallas. The Cowboys They went from 1-15 in 1989 to the first consecutive Super Bowl titles in franchise history to cap the 1992 and 1993 seasons.
“I think we’re past who gets the credit,” he said. Johnson. “The two of us working together and we made history.”
Those Cowboys were led by quarterback Troy Aikman, running back Emmitt Smith and receiver Michael Irvin, the three members of the Hall of Fame.
But critics never stopped suggesting that the 1995 title was down to Johnson’s players, as the Cowboys They haven’t even reached a National Conference final since that season. After a two-year absence, Johnson returned to the Miami Dolphins in 1996 and led them to the playoffs in the final three of his four seasons.
But Miami He never made it past the divisional round. Johnson, 80, originally from Texas, has been a Fox studio analyst for the past two decades and was enshrined in Canton, Ohio, in 2020, three years after Jones.
Now the name of Johnson will be inside AT&T Stadium along with Landry, who led the Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1970s and is fifth on the career list with 250 regular-season wins.
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2023-12-31 04:57:26
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