Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys: Fire the Owner

Hacker Boy (hacking into this disgraceful blog in the interest of truth, despite Skip's false allegations that I am somehow connected to Rupret Murdoch and/or what Skip calls the "unfair and unbalanced network"): "Skip, you really are terrible. You know that you can't FIRE the OWNER of a football team. Why do you say things like that?"


Skip: "Actually, in my lifetime the "onwers" of sports teams--including baseball and football teams--have been essentailly "fired" several times. Admittedly, this has mainly been when they got into financial difficulties--although that often translated into, or was part of, a general problem with the way the owner ran the team. Hacker Boy, you Rupert Murdoch stooge, you have to admit that everyone knows that the problem with the Dallas Cowboys is their owner. He is the one man most to blame for the recent faiure of the Dallas Cowboys. As stated in the last article, baseball is just a game. Football is IMPORTANT, and maybe Texas should CONDEMN the Dallas Cowboys (eminent domain) just to get rid of Jerry Jones. Despite his obvious, monumental stupidity, Jones does not appear to be in any financial difficulty. In fact, he made what might be regarded as a "sweetheart" financial deal with the city of Arlington. Thus, Hacker Boy is right to that extent. It may be a practical imposssibility to fire Jones. Still, someone shoult find a way to do it. Hacker Boy, I dare you to say that would be a bad thing."


Hacker Boy: "Of course it would be a good thing if the Cowboys could get rid of Jerry Jones, or at least eliminate him from any decisions involving the team (as distinct from financial matters). However, that can't be done. Skip, you have this habit of tilting at windmills. You KNOW that it can't be done. You would have a better chance getting Tony LaRussa fired. After all, he was around when baseball was invented. He has to be OLD now."


Skip: "Hacker Boy, you missed the point. Sure, Tony LaRussa is now an old hasbeen, hangig on because of past glory. In the weakest divison in the National League, he cannot even keep his team IN CONTENTION in the month of September. Nope. The Cardinals are NOT in contention, and will never have been in contention in September even if they end up out of the playoffs by only 2 or 3 games. All the Cardinals can do now, and what LaRussa has done in the recent past--like last year, when the Cardinals were AGAIN not in conttention in Septembre, is MKAE IT LOOK GOOD with a meaningless run in the end by a team that has shown itself to be no better than a .50000 team. But FOOTBALL is more than a game in Texas, and Jerry Jones is RUINING it for everybody. He is even ruining it for Cowboy HATERS, like a few of my brothers. How much fun an you hae HATING a team that has become such an abject failure? "


Hacker Boy: "Ikay, Skip, I will give you this one. It really would be nice if someone could figure out a way to fire Jerry Jones. But you are the one who keeps ranting about the "Magic Wand Theory of Government:: the idea that all the Federal Government has to do is wave a magic wand and "solve" our problems. Well, you can't wave a magic wand and get rid of Jerry Jones, however desirable that might be"


Skip: The "Magic Wand Theory of Government" is also known as the "Greta Van Susteren Delusion". However, I have to say that Hacker Boy has lurched into the truth this time (a stopped clock being right twice a day). I can't wave a magic wand and get rid of Jerry Jones. Too bad. Can the Cowboys OVERCOME the handicap of their owner, and contend this year? I doubt it, but hope springs eternal in the human breast. Too bad President Obama has even corrupted the hope of hope, with his perversion of that word. Could we not figure out a way to FIRE Obama and Jones at the same time, without having to replace one or both of them with an actual REPUBLICAN politician? I know. Now even I am being corrupted by the leftist tendency toward living in a world of fantasy instead of a world of reality.