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Yep jimmy made that team. Jerry ego is showing (well both)
I love this series (A Football Life), and the one about Jimmy Johnson was no different.
I had no idea that Jimmy and Jerry played in Arkansas together, and that Barry Switzer was a coach for that team. Now it all makes sense!
If Jerry wasn't such an asshat, he'd have at least 1-2 more rings, IMO. Jimmy wasn't done, but Jerry's ego undermined everything and continues to do so today.
Like was mentioned by Belichick (iirc), someone experiencing championships at three levels - player, college coach, pro coach - is amazing and quite an achievement. Very cool to see a full picture of Jimmy, and loved the Survivor story.
[IMGwidthsize=200]http://www.details.com/images/culture-trends/news-and-politics/201008/jimmy_johnson_hair_Embed.jpg[/IMG]I came into the NFL as the owner and general manager of this team, and one of the first decisions I made in the role of GM was to hire Jimmy as head coach, Jones said.
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During Jimmys tenure, the authority to hire the players was with the GM...In our unique circumstances, where the owner and the GM were the same person, in the case of a disagreement which we never had the owner had the ultimate authority.
...Johnson said [that] was completely a bunch of crock that Jones ran the football operation. Jerry started putting all those titles on himself after I left. He didnt call himself general manager and president and all that stuff when I was there. He was just the owner. Because it was in my contract that I had total responsibility for all football decisions. It was in my contract, and he didnt allow anybody to have that in their contract after I left.