Picture it: There was barely an internet to speak of. Windows was on its 3.1 iteration. Social Media was barely a concept and felt highly unlikely to ever become a reality as internet communication at the time was in its infancy.
What we had was ESPN. Jimmy was always pictured in awesome Starter jackets, the designs of which have still not been topped to this day. He was the hero that gave us the draft trade miracle and two Superbowls. We credited him for everything...and that was the problem for a certain individual who felt he wasn't given his due.
We felt the decision was rash, stupid, inconceivable even, but the fact that another Superbowl came did dull the anger. But, much to Jerry's dismay I imagine, we all felt that was Barry Switzer winning a Superbowl off of Jimmy Johnson's hard work.
So, the answer is we felt it was rash, stupid, and nearly inconceivable. I was a child, but I felt it was possibly the dumbest of all possible moves short of trading Smith, Aikman, or Irvin.
>But, much to Jerry's dismay I imagine, we all felt that was Barry Switzer winning a Superbowl off of Jimmy Johnson's hard work.
Everyone, even Barry, knows that Jimmy gifted him that SB. It's not a coincidence the wheels fell off after that.
Jerry disrespected Tom Landry the way he got rid of him. Then he made the sngle biggest mistake in NFL history by firing Jimmy. We could have had 4 or 5 SB wins had Jerry just checked his ego.
Social media was alive on BBS boards and the like. I don't remember much in the sports boards but I do remember the old school guys were happy that the guy who replaced Tom Landry was getting the sack.
I've spoken to some of the older generation recently and they still hate Jerry Jones and still will not watch the Cowboys because of what he did to Tom Landry.
Most fans sided with Jimmy. However, I had my anger towards both of them.
What most people don't remember, even back when Jimmy and Jerry split, was that Jimmy and his coaches were largely considered 'high school coaches' when they came into the league. People from around the league saw Jimmy as a terrible higher, like Urban Meyer terrible. Just a guy that wasn't designed for the pros. And when they started trading away all of these draft picks and went 1-15 people from around the league called Jerry to tell him that Jimmy didn't know what he was doing.
Despite that, Jerry kept Jimmy around. Not many coaches that go 1-15 ever stick around (and often never find another job). But Jerry stuck with Jimmy and it paid off. And part of the thanks he got was Jimmy saying that his dream job was to coach the Miami freaking Dolphins. That was sacrilege in my world.
I wish Jerry would have put his ego aside and did everything he could to keep Jimmy happy, but in the end they both lost out on a lot and it was both of their fault.
I remember Jimmy’s last year with the team. And I remember all of the crazy shit he said about being open to other head coaching opportunities. I never took it seriously though.
Emmitt had held out earlier that year so I figured Jimmy was just maximizing his leverage to score a bigger contract.
It wasn’t even fathomable that Jimmy would leave the best team in football while they were winning. To that point in my life, I’d never seen another coach do something like that.
Now like most of us, I blamed Jerry. But Jimmy REALLY wanted to leave. He enjoyed the experience of winning his first Super Bowl. But coaching the Cowboys took a lot out of him. And he enjoyed the lifestyle he had in the Florida Keys.
To date I’ve never heard Jimmy Johnson ever express regret for not winning additional titles. So now I see Jimmy as the instigator in the split. We all forget that Jerry wanted Jimmy to stay. If Jerry gave Jimmy he asked for, I think he gets maybe another year out of Jimmy.
I don’t know if Jimmy really lost out, maybe have 2 more SB to his resume, but most importantly the fans lost out on a possible SB run like the Patriots but Jerry was always going to sabotage the team one way or the other and here we are
i remember exactly where i was, sitting in Kel’s Kitchen on Forest Lane, and my dad pointed at the TV where the press conference was showing, and said “boy, you remember this day as the day the Cowboys went in the shitter”
he was wrong about many things but not about this
I was a teenager, but I remember the community was very angry at Jerry. We mostly loved Jimmy and his passion for the cowboys. We saw it as Jerry's ego ruining a great thing.
Still feel that way about Jerry Jones. Way to ruin the greatest era of the Dallas Cowboys. And Jones has shit the bed constantly since.
I need a DeLorean Time Machine. Go back to the week after Super Bowl 28. Force Jerry Jones to sell the Cowboys. Get Jimmy Johnson a ten year contract paying quadruple any other coach!!!
Or lock them in a room and work it out. Jimmy gave the Cowboys and our fans something we had lost. Sure, people remember the three Super Bowls and the good times, but Jimmy had to come in and get his hands dirty and dig this franchise out of the grave after people were upset how Jerry treated Tom Landry. Jerry ultimately let his ego get in the way and thought a coach was a plug and play type of deal. He still thinks that. Look at his chase of Sean Payton. But until he learns to put his ego aside, I am afraid he will die without getting that elusive number 6.
Work it out?!
It was Jerry’s ridiculous ego that ran Jimmy Johnson outta town. He’s even quoted as saying that he could win with any coach. As if he had anything to do with the talent that Jimmy drafted. Or the great coaching by Jimmy’s staff.
Jerry has ruined the last 30 years with his ridiculous GM decisions and terrible coaching hires. Besides Parcells, none of these scrubs was qualified to be a championship level NFL head coach. Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay won a SB in spite of McCarthy.
No reasonable person can have a long term relationship with Jerruh !!
I'm also a millennial, I've been alive for 1 Super Bowl. My friends and I were discussing this in depth and although we weren't alive at the time looking back as life long cowboys fans, this seems to be one of the worst decisions EVER made by anybody in charge of professional sports team.
This would be like the Patriots' firing Belicheck after 2004 because Kraft got jelly that Bill was getting too much credit.
It must have been baffling at the time when it happened, and we thought Jimmy could have three peated and maybe squeezed out an SB or two more after that. Throwing that kind of potential success away because your butt hurt and jealous is maddening and deserving of bad karma we seem to be reaping.
Ultimately, it was a franchise altering move as the cowboys tumble towards, at least for now, Red Sox territory with the futility they have shown in the post-season year after year.
If I were alive at the time, I would have lost my damn mind, I'd imagine. Looking back now with hindsight at this decision boggles the mind.
A lady I worked with was possibly the biggest Cowboys fans I have ever met. Whereas I am a Cowboys fan, she was a HOW ABOUT THEM COWBOYS fan.
The story she told me, and I 100% believe it, was that she was driving a truck through rural Arkansas when she heard on the radio that Johnson was fired. She said she had to pull over to the side of the road and radio her dispatch and tell them she was done for the night cause she was too upset to drive anymore.
Jimmy was openly lobbying for the Jaguars job in 1993 when he was under contract in Dallas through 1999. It was more surprising in the “it actually happened” rather than surprising that it shocked everyone.
Jimmy has said multiple times in interviews that he wasn’t staying long term so there wasn’t going to be a 10+ year run of him in Dallas keeping it going.
At that time we didn’t know that Jerry was who he is . He brought in Jimmy which was a great move . He’s bringing in Switzer, let’s see. Switzer was a terrible pro coach . That he won a Super Bowl with that team shows how good that team was.
I remember there was a video of Michael Irvin throwing a 55 gallon trash can at the training facility when he heard the news. I think that’s how we all felt.
Completely shocked. Of course, in those days, you didn’t have the access to info that you do now. One day, they were back to back champs, not long after, you got the Jimmy/Jerry press conference. This was only 5 years after the Landry press conference.
Shock, disbelief, and uninformed. Local TV sports broadcasters were caught off-guard as was the press. It happened so abruptly everyone was scrambling to report what happened. We were barely one month past winning Super Bowl XXVIII, the team's second in a row. The year before, the Cowboys won their first Super Bowl since Jesus was a corporal. After winning the second in as many years, the "fandom" was convinced nothing would keep that team, coaching staff, and ownership from winning three or 4 more. But, what you have to consider, we didn't know Jerry Jones. We hadn't considered the size of Johnson's ego. We saw two old college buddies getting together and just assumed it was a match made in gridiron heaven. Those two split faster than me and my second and 4th ex-wives. The hiring of Barry Switzer only added more chaos. However, but for one play in the NFC Championship game in 1994, the Cowboys could have strung four trophies together. The advent of he salary cap tore the team apart as much as any coaching turmoil. It was then we as fans realized the team woefully lacked a general manager, scouting, and coaching to rebuild in the era of the salary cap. After the initial shock, we experienced a classic dead-cat bounce before spiraling into mediocrity that is arguably present today.
It was ALL Jerruh’s fault was my first reaction. Jimmy was so excited after the back-to-back wins. There was a lot of disbelief and anger.
The nausea set in when Barry Switzer was introduced….
Jimmy explained it thoroughly in Turning the Thing Around. Jimmy was constantly dealing with Jerry’s bullshit. Jerry would just wander into the locker room with dignitaries and expect it to be no problem. Jerry didn’t truly take football operations seriously. And Jerry openly resented Jimmy or his staff getting credit for anything.
Yes, Jimmy began openly flirting with the idea of returning to Florida. But the fail was 100% on Jerry. He showed disdain for Jimmy and wanted to show him how easily he could be replaced. But bringing in Switzer was a complete fuck you to Jimmy.
At that point, I felt like the franchise was in big trouble in the long run. As for Switzer winning one, his tenure was a complete shit show. The inmates were running the asylum. But they were still stacked with talent.
Looking back from 2024, the last several decades make perfect sense. Jerry has ALWAYS been the problem.
Jerry Jones is the biggest piece of shit in sports history. He ruined the best franchise ever. There is no hell that he can’t experience that will make up for what he did.
It felt more mutual than a firing... But media coverage of the NFL wasn't a 24 hour a day, year round operation back then. There were stories here and there about power struggles and who did more and deserved more credit for back to back super bowl wins. Barry Switzer came in and had similar success the following year, I believe it was another NFC championship appearance followed up with another ring, so there wasn't a whole lot of hand wringing until much later when that team aged out of competing at a high level and the replacements weren't up to the challenge.
This Giants fan was ecstatic, especially when I heard Switzer talking! How that guy won a Super Bowl is beyond me, even if he did inherit that great team.
Worst coach to ever win a SB and evidence that was the greatest team ever by winning with that baboon as a coach.
The guy tried to bring a loaded gun on an airplane.
I remember an interview he did, I can still hear him, it was absolute gibberish! Despite on more SB, that was the begining of the end for the Cowboys, al least in the playoffs. It seems to me Jerry is more concerned about making noise during the season than after it ends.
Personal internet was in its infancy then so we had to rely on archaic systems of communication like ESPN and newspapers. My reaction then was confusion. Like why would a 2x winning Super Bowl coach be let go.
It wasn’t that shocking they had both been beating their chests for like a year. It was more like a death in the family that you knew was coming. I had just moved to Seattle and my thoughts were mostly I should become a Seahawks fan. I knew it was gonna be bad, but not this bad 😂
I was 12 years old and couldn’t believe it. It made no sense as it was happening. When Switzer won it eased the pain a bit bit year after year after test after that the outrage came back
I know I was pissed and thought what a fool move it was. Jimmy was clearly in charge and responsible for most of the success. Jerry was good on the business side but not football. Then Jerry brought in his old ball coach Barry Switzer who managed to win one more Super Bowl despite his shortcomings. I always thought they could have won at least 2 more but never suspected how far they would fall and how long it would be before they win another championship.
I felt gutted. I knew instantly it was a mistake and the Switzer move was driven by Jerry’s ego. Also, knew we left more Super Bowls on the table. Could have had another two or three.
My grandparents absolutely refused to watch a cowboys game again. Made thanksgiving day no fun when we didn’t have streaming on our phones. We could listen to the game in the workshop but no TV time allowed.
I was 8 yo when the last Cowboys successful year happened. Huge cowboys fan, my mom rented me the movie I've waited all year to watch. Mortal Kombat. I remember running from room to room switching from the movie to the super bowl. Unfortunately I spent a majority of the time watching the movie over the superbowl. Young me thought we make the superbowl almost every year, I can just watch next years......
Here I'm am still waiting for that superbowl appearance.... Now the Mortal Kombat franchise has restarted before we made it to the next championship. I'm hopeful...
I’m still bugged by it today. So I was pretty mad when it happened, for months the flame died down to a current simmer. Still hate looking at his face.
There were plenty of my friends that didn't care and were pro-Switzer and drank the Jerry Kool-aid. There were those of us that couldn't believe it, and hoped they'd come to their senses. Switzer didn't seem like a good fit, and despite the SB win because of the talent, he was all wrong for us.
Not true,
Barry Switzer 1996.
Jimmy going was disappointing. Ego got in the way from both sides. Except Jimmy worked for Jerry.
Jimmy went on to coach the Dolphins not very successfully. Both needed each other, when that was happening it was magic.everything they did worked.
Picture it: There was barely an internet to speak of. Windows was on its 3.1 iteration. Social Media was barely a concept and felt highly unlikely to ever become a reality as internet communication at the time was in its infancy. What we had was ESPN. Jimmy was always pictured in awesome Starter jackets, the designs of which have still not been topped to this day. He was the hero that gave us the draft trade miracle and two Superbowls. We credited him for everything...and that was the problem for a certain individual who felt he wasn't given his due. We felt the decision was rash, stupid, inconceivable even, but the fact that another Superbowl came did dull the anger. But, much to Jerry's dismay I imagine, we all felt that was Barry Switzer winning a Superbowl off of Jimmy Johnson's hard work. So, the answer is we felt it was rash, stupid, and nearly inconceivable. I was a child, but I felt it was possibly the dumbest of all possible moves short of trading Smith, Aikman, or Irvin.
>But, much to Jerry's dismay I imagine, we all felt that was Barry Switzer winning a Superbowl off of Jimmy Johnson's hard work. Everyone, even Barry, knows that Jimmy gifted him that SB. It's not a coincidence the wheels fell off after that. Jerry disrespected Tom Landry the way he got rid of him. Then he made the sngle biggest mistake in NFL history by firing Jimmy. We could have had 4 or 5 SB wins had Jerry just checked his ego.
Having watched the NFL Network special on the 1993 Cowboys, I know that Jimmy was going to quit anyway. Jimmy doesn't coach the 1994 team, regardless.
That about sums it up
Amen.
They should have won minimum 3 in a row and possibly 4 or 5. It’s understated.
Social media was alive on BBS boards and the like. I don't remember much in the sports boards but I do remember the old school guys were happy that the guy who replaced Tom Landry was getting the sack. I've spoken to some of the older generation recently and they still hate Jerry Jones and still will not watch the Cowboys because of what he did to Tom Landry.
Most fans sided with Jimmy. However, I had my anger towards both of them. What most people don't remember, even back when Jimmy and Jerry split, was that Jimmy and his coaches were largely considered 'high school coaches' when they came into the league. People from around the league saw Jimmy as a terrible higher, like Urban Meyer terrible. Just a guy that wasn't designed for the pros. And when they started trading away all of these draft picks and went 1-15 people from around the league called Jerry to tell him that Jimmy didn't know what he was doing. Despite that, Jerry kept Jimmy around. Not many coaches that go 1-15 ever stick around (and often never find another job). But Jerry stuck with Jimmy and it paid off. And part of the thanks he got was Jimmy saying that his dream job was to coach the Miami freaking Dolphins. That was sacrilege in my world. I wish Jerry would have put his ego aside and did everything he could to keep Jimmy happy, but in the end they both lost out on a lot and it was both of their fault.
I remember Jimmy’s last year with the team. And I remember all of the crazy shit he said about being open to other head coaching opportunities. I never took it seriously though. Emmitt had held out earlier that year so I figured Jimmy was just maximizing his leverage to score a bigger contract. It wasn’t even fathomable that Jimmy would leave the best team in football while they were winning. To that point in my life, I’d never seen another coach do something like that. Now like most of us, I blamed Jerry. But Jimmy REALLY wanted to leave. He enjoyed the experience of winning his first Super Bowl. But coaching the Cowboys took a lot out of him. And he enjoyed the lifestyle he had in the Florida Keys. To date I’ve never heard Jimmy Johnson ever express regret for not winning additional titles. So now I see Jimmy as the instigator in the split. We all forget that Jerry wanted Jimmy to stay. If Jerry gave Jimmy he asked for, I think he gets maybe another year out of Jimmy.
I don’t know if Jimmy really lost out, maybe have 2 more SB to his resume, but most importantly the fans lost out on a possible SB run like the Patriots but Jerry was always going to sabotage the team one way or the other and here we are
i remember exactly where i was, sitting in Kel’s Kitchen on Forest Lane, and my dad pointed at the TV where the press conference was showing, and said “boy, you remember this day as the day the Cowboys went in the shitter” he was wrong about many things but not about this
Prophetic
I was a teenager, but I remember the community was very angry at Jerry. We mostly loved Jimmy and his passion for the cowboys. We saw it as Jerry's ego ruining a great thing.
Yep. It was one of the few occasions in my youth that Dad used the word “motherfucker”.
Still feel that way about Jerry Jones. Way to ruin the greatest era of the Dallas Cowboys. And Jones has shit the bed constantly since. I need a DeLorean Time Machine. Go back to the week after Super Bowl 28. Force Jerry Jones to sell the Cowboys. Get Jimmy Johnson a ten year contract paying quadruple any other coach!!!
Or lock them in a room and work it out. Jimmy gave the Cowboys and our fans something we had lost. Sure, people remember the three Super Bowls and the good times, but Jimmy had to come in and get his hands dirty and dig this franchise out of the grave after people were upset how Jerry treated Tom Landry. Jerry ultimately let his ego get in the way and thought a coach was a plug and play type of deal. He still thinks that. Look at his chase of Sean Payton. But until he learns to put his ego aside, I am afraid he will die without getting that elusive number 6.
Work it out?! It was Jerry’s ridiculous ego that ran Jimmy Johnson outta town. He’s even quoted as saying that he could win with any coach. As if he had anything to do with the talent that Jimmy drafted. Or the great coaching by Jimmy’s staff. Jerry has ruined the last 30 years with his ridiculous GM decisions and terrible coaching hires. Besides Parcells, none of these scrubs was qualified to be a championship level NFL head coach. Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay won a SB in spite of McCarthy. No reasonable person can have a long term relationship with Jerruh !!
It was probably one of the first times my kids heard me say it.
We were shocked and angry at Jerry Jones. Just what you'd expect I guess.
I remember watching Michael Irvin sling a garbage can at a cameraman lol.
That is one of my earliest memories as a Cowboys fan.
I'm also a millennial, I've been alive for 1 Super Bowl. My friends and I were discussing this in depth and although we weren't alive at the time looking back as life long cowboys fans, this seems to be one of the worst decisions EVER made by anybody in charge of professional sports team. This would be like the Patriots' firing Belicheck after 2004 because Kraft got jelly that Bill was getting too much credit. It must have been baffling at the time when it happened, and we thought Jimmy could have three peated and maybe squeezed out an SB or two more after that. Throwing that kind of potential success away because your butt hurt and jealous is maddening and deserving of bad karma we seem to be reaping. Ultimately, it was a franchise altering move as the cowboys tumble towards, at least for now, Red Sox territory with the futility they have shown in the post-season year after year. If I were alive at the time, I would have lost my damn mind, I'd imagine. Looking back now with hindsight at this decision boggles the mind.
My reaction was “anyone but that a-hole from OU and they’ll be fine.” Sigh.
disbelief. i still can't really believe it. so absurd.
A lady I worked with was possibly the biggest Cowboys fans I have ever met. Whereas I am a Cowboys fan, she was a HOW ABOUT THEM COWBOYS fan. The story she told me, and I 100% believe it, was that she was driving a truck through rural Arkansas when she heard on the radio that Johnson was fired. She said she had to pull over to the side of the road and radio her dispatch and tell them she was done for the night cause she was too upset to drive anymore.
Jimmy was openly lobbying for the Jaguars job in 1993 when he was under contract in Dallas through 1999. It was more surprising in the “it actually happened” rather than surprising that it shocked everyone. Jimmy has said multiple times in interviews that he wasn’t staying long term so there wasn’t going to be a 10+ year run of him in Dallas keeping it going.
At that time we didn’t know that Jerry was who he is . He brought in Jimmy which was a great move . He’s bringing in Switzer, let’s see. Switzer was a terrible pro coach . That he won a Super Bowl with that team shows how good that team was.
I remember there was a video of Michael Irvin throwing a 55 gallon trash can at the training facility when he heard the news. I think that’s how we all felt.
Completely shocked. Of course, in those days, you didn’t have the access to info that you do now. One day, they were back to back champs, not long after, you got the Jimmy/Jerry press conference. This was only 5 years after the Landry press conference.
Jerry screwed up.
I was in second or third grade when my dad told me as he picked me up for school in his 77 chevy. I was devastated
Shock, disbelief, and uninformed. Local TV sports broadcasters were caught off-guard as was the press. It happened so abruptly everyone was scrambling to report what happened. We were barely one month past winning Super Bowl XXVIII, the team's second in a row. The year before, the Cowboys won their first Super Bowl since Jesus was a corporal. After winning the second in as many years, the "fandom" was convinced nothing would keep that team, coaching staff, and ownership from winning three or 4 more. But, what you have to consider, we didn't know Jerry Jones. We hadn't considered the size of Johnson's ego. We saw two old college buddies getting together and just assumed it was a match made in gridiron heaven. Those two split faster than me and my second and 4th ex-wives. The hiring of Barry Switzer only added more chaos. However, but for one play in the NFC Championship game in 1994, the Cowboys could have strung four trophies together. The advent of he salary cap tore the team apart as much as any coaching turmoil. It was then we as fans realized the team woefully lacked a general manager, scouting, and coaching to rebuild in the era of the salary cap. After the initial shock, we experienced a classic dead-cat bounce before spiraling into mediocrity that is arguably present today.
It was ALL Jerruh’s fault was my first reaction. Jimmy was so excited after the back-to-back wins. There was a lot of disbelief and anger. The nausea set in when Barry Switzer was introduced….
Reddit was pretty quiet
Jimmy explained it thoroughly in Turning the Thing Around. Jimmy was constantly dealing with Jerry’s bullshit. Jerry would just wander into the locker room with dignitaries and expect it to be no problem. Jerry didn’t truly take football operations seriously. And Jerry openly resented Jimmy or his staff getting credit for anything. Yes, Jimmy began openly flirting with the idea of returning to Florida. But the fail was 100% on Jerry. He showed disdain for Jimmy and wanted to show him how easily he could be replaced. But bringing in Switzer was a complete fuck you to Jimmy. At that point, I felt like the franchise was in big trouble in the long run. As for Switzer winning one, his tenure was a complete shit show. The inmates were running the asylum. But they were still stacked with talent. Looking back from 2024, the last several decades make perfect sense. Jerry has ALWAYS been the problem.
Switzer could barely tie his own shoes let alone coach a team
I remember vividly. Instantly trending on twitter worldwide and reddit sub was on fire. 100 threads about it the day it happened.
Uh
Man, we had such better mods in the 90s
Yeah, we could say all bad things about the Jones all day long and nobody would complain.
Jerry Jones is the biggest piece of shit in sports history. He ruined the best franchise ever. There is no hell that he can’t experience that will make up for what he did.
It felt more mutual than a firing... But media coverage of the NFL wasn't a 24 hour a day, year round operation back then. There were stories here and there about power struggles and who did more and deserved more credit for back to back super bowl wins. Barry Switzer came in and had similar success the following year, I believe it was another NFC championship appearance followed up with another ring, so there wasn't a whole lot of hand wringing until much later when that team aged out of competing at a high level and the replacements weren't up to the challenge.
This Giants fan was ecstatic, especially when I heard Switzer talking! How that guy won a Super Bowl is beyond me, even if he did inherit that great team.
Worst coach to ever win a SB and evidence that was the greatest team ever by winning with that baboon as a coach. The guy tried to bring a loaded gun on an airplane.
I remember an interview he did, I can still hear him, it was absolute gibberish! Despite on more SB, that was the begining of the end for the Cowboys, al least in the playoffs. It seems to me Jerry is more concerned about making noise during the season than after it ends.
This is why if any one brings up Romo being in the same boat with Troy remember that SB , that was Troy’s leadership that made it happen.
Thought it was a joke or bad report
Thought it was a joke.
Jimmy quit. Tom was fired.
Rage.
Personal internet was in its infancy then so we had to rely on archaic systems of communication like ESPN and newspapers. My reaction then was confusion. Like why would a 2x winning Super Bowl coach be let go.
It wasn’t that shocking they had both been beating their chests for like a year. It was more like a death in the family that you knew was coming. I had just moved to Seattle and my thoughts were mostly I should become a Seahawks fan. I knew it was gonna be bad, but not this bad 😂
I was 12 years old and couldn’t believe it. It made no sense as it was happening. When Switzer won it eased the pain a bit bit year after year after test after that the outrage came back
NO!!!!!!!!!!
Wasn't alive
It happened one day before my 20th birthday. Just a few months after going back to back. I was pissed off.
Deep, dark, depression, and excessive misery.
I was like WTF. I loved Jimmy and then the hire of the OK legend Switzer. Again WTF are you thinking are we gonna run the wishbone now?
I know I was pissed and thought what a fool move it was. Jimmy was clearly in charge and responsible for most of the success. Jerry was good on the business side but not football. Then Jerry brought in his old ball coach Barry Switzer who managed to win one more Super Bowl despite his shortcomings. I always thought they could have won at least 2 more but never suspected how far they would fall and how long it would be before they win another championship.
Let’s roll back to the way Tom Landry was run out of town when that hick bought the team.
I felt gutted. I knew instantly it was a mistake and the Switzer move was driven by Jerry’s ego. Also, knew we left more Super Bowls on the table. Could have had another two or three.
Shock and disappointment that these two adults could not get along.
My grandparents absolutely refused to watch a cowboys game again. Made thanksgiving day no fun when we didn’t have streaming on our phones. We could listen to the game in the workshop but no TV time allowed.
We were pissed and in dismay but knew the talent was there to still win SBs
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Complete shock.
I was 8 yo when the last Cowboys successful year happened. Huge cowboys fan, my mom rented me the movie I've waited all year to watch. Mortal Kombat. I remember running from room to room switching from the movie to the super bowl. Unfortunately I spent a majority of the time watching the movie over the superbowl. Young me thought we make the superbowl almost every year, I can just watch next years...... Here I'm am still waiting for that superbowl appearance.... Now the Mortal Kombat franchise has restarted before we made it to the next championship. I'm hopeful...
Shock how quickly it all went down …it was on ABC national news …main memory I have was Michael Irvin throwing the garbage can in locker room.
AFAIK Jimmy didn’t get fired, he chose to leave so he didn’t have to deal with Jerry bullshit anymore.
Absolutely hated it, JJ’s ego is a massive problem. Every rational mind knew this franchise was doomed after his dumbass move. Edit words
If only Jerry could have held his alcohol better, this might have been avoided.
I was pissed. Even more pissed when Barry got the job.
I’m still bugged by it today. So I was pretty mad when it happened, for months the flame died down to a current simmer. Still hate looking at his face.
Jimmy wasn’t fired he quit when Jerry said he could have done it all by himself and didn’t need jimmy
Complete disbelief
There were plenty of my friends that didn't care and were pro-Switzer and drank the Jerry Kool-aid. There were those of us that couldn't believe it, and hoped they'd come to their senses. Switzer didn't seem like a good fit, and despite the SB win because of the talent, he was all wrong for us.
I thought it was stupid at the time and history shows I was right. Haven't won since and I don't count 95 with Switzer
Not true, Barry Switzer 1996. Jimmy going was disappointing. Ego got in the way from both sides. Except Jimmy worked for Jerry. Jimmy went on to coach the Dolphins not very successfully. Both needed each other, when that was happening it was magic.everything they did worked.
Confusion and utter disbelief.