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It was the team's first time in franchise history that Tom Landry was not the head coach, as he was fired by Arkansas oil executive Jerry Jones on February 25, 1989. Landry served as Cowboys' head coach since the team's inaugural 1960 season and led the team to 5 Super Bowl appearances, winning 2 of them in his 29 year tenure.
Bright ultimately sold the team to Jerry Jones, who fired Landry on February 25, 1989, one day after closing on the purchase. Jones hired Jimmy Johnson , his former teammate at the University of Arkansas , who had been serving as head coach at the University of Miami . [ 19 ]
Schramm stayed on only briefly with the Cowboys after Jerry Jones purchased the team and fired Tom Landry. He left to become the president of the World League of American Football. Schramm was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1991. Schramm's entry into the Cowboys Ring of Honor took much longer due to strained relations with Jones ...
The bottom line is Johnson is joining Tom Landry as the only coaches alongside the 19 players and two executives in the exclusiv. Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones tip-toed around talk of their ...
Tom Landry was the first head coach of the Cowboys, and coached the team from 1960 to 1988. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1990. The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in Frisco, Texas. Their stadium is located in Arlington, Texas.
Tom Landry, the Cowboys’ head coach from 1960 through 1988, was enshrined in 1993. Landry led the Cowboys to two Super Bowls and seven more conference championship berths in his tenure.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones addressed some of the key issues surrounding his franchise this week during a 70-minute interview on “The Stephen A. Smith Show” podcast, at The Star in Frisco.
Jones attended the University of Arkansas, where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. [10] He was co-captain of Arkansas' 1964 national championship football team. . He was an offensive lineman for College Football Hall of Fame coach Frank Broyles and a teammate of college football and NFL coach Jimmy Johnson, whom Jones hired as his first head coach after purchasing the Cowbo