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Jones attended the University of Arkansas, where he was a member of 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 Cowboys.
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.
Tom Landry and Barry Switzer never coached in the NFL again after getting axed by Jerry Jones; Landry because he was too old, Switzer because he was too unpredictable. Two left with their coaching ...
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.
Expect Jerry Jones to ignite lots of drama in the search for Mike McCarthy's replacement. ... he came into the NFL in 1989 with a shock as he replaced the legendary Tom Landry with Jimmy Johnson ...
Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones tip-toed around talk of their acrimonious split almost 30 years ago, when they had just teamed as coach and owner to win consecutive Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys.
The 1988 season was the last of the Tom Landry era. After the 1988 season, the team would undergo drastic changes including a new head coach, and change of ownership from Bum Bright to current owner Jerry Jones.
The abrupt firing of the only coach the Cowboys had ever known attracted much criticism. In 2016, Jones revealed that Bright offered to fire Landry before the sale closed, knowing Jones would face savage criticism from the press if he did so himself. However, Jones declined the offer, wanting to be the one who made the decision to fire Landry. [15]