Owning one team is enough for Jerry Jones

Jennifer Floyd Engel

SAN ANTONIO -- Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has zero interest in buying the Texas Rangers, says he has not so much as kicked the tires once since the club went spiraling into Chapter 11 bankruptcy hell.

"It has always been about football for me," he told me at Camp Cowboy this week.

Owner Jones does have a little experience buying a team that features an iconic Texas sports legend and botching the whole thing royally, and he's happy to share with Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

If Cuban indeed is buying.

And if this indeed means Rangers president Nolan Ryan balks and walks.

"Mark, if he needs me to send over some of those clips from those days to have his PR people review, I will," Owner Jones said. "I promise you [Cuban] has done his homework there and won't make my mistakes."

Jones is only half joking when he says this; real disappointment lingers over how everything with coach Tom Landry transpired. And Jones has evolved since then.

OK, kind of.

Jerry is still Jerry, the guy who even on his best day has trouble separating the fan from the owner. He is passionate about the Cowboys, lives them, breathes them, bleeds with them. It is the kind of ownership we do not see a lot of in major league baseball, and it is messy.

Jerry and Cuban have made every kind of mistake in their ownership arcs -- firing good... -- Continue reading at the publisher's site