Saturday night was not the farewell to the home field of America’s Team.  It was the effort of one man to exploit a once great franchise for his own purposes.

So many great men! So many great moments! So many opportunities for Jerry Jones to grandstand!

If Jerry were the promoter he thinks he is, he would have done a much better job Saturday night. As I flipped back and forth from Channel 33 to the NFL Network, I could not believe that this was happening. The sound was bad, the videos were stale and the entire production was second rate.

Has Jerry Jones lost it?

A few weeks ago I noticed that the Cowboys had hired an auction company to sell Texas Stadium Memorabilia. They sold $245,000 worth of memories. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-stadiumsale_23met.ART.State.Edition2.4a86522.html

I wish we could see what Jerry spent on his ticket and box seat promotion via the Cowboy Hall of Famers.

For all his success, Jerry Jones fails at one of the major tests of leadership: he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.  Someone on his staff should have told him that commemorating Texas Stadium should not have been transformed into a commercial for buying season tickets at the new stadium.  There will be plenty of time for that.  But Saturday night should have been about remembering the past, not selling the future.

Randy Hill