Jerry Jones was rooting for rival team, the Eagles, during Super Bowl

[Dallas RW&B]

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealed he was pulling for the
Philadelphia Eagles to win Super Bowl LII over the New England
Patriots despite the two teams’ rivalry.

Jones told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the Eagles’ Super Bowl
victory puts some added pressure on the Cowboys. The two teams
are in the same division.

"I think it raises the bar. I think it puts pressure on the
Cowboys," Jones said. "They've took it down to the bone and
brought it back up and have a world championship and we've been
doing the same thing. Where is ours? That's fair. That's fair."

The Cowboys have not won a Super Bowl championship since 1995.

Jones said despite the rivalry the Cowboys and Eagles have, he
was hoping they would win the game.

"As much as we have the rivalry that we have, and as frustrating
as it was for the Cowboys not to be playing, as much as all of
that, I was proud of [the Eagles], given that narrow set of
circumstances, could root for them," Jones said. "That takes it
right down to just absolutely no choice, you either do or you
die. And I want to go again."

The Cowboys had high expectations going into the 2017 season but
star quarterback Dak Prescott did not play as well as 2016 and
star running back Ezekiel Elliott was suspended for six games
over domestic violation allegations. Jones worked tirelessly to
overturn the decision but the NFL ruled the decision stood.

Jones gave the Eagles credit for winning despite being without
their star quarterback Carson Wentz.

"They didn't have a quarterback either, and they got one, and
then they lost him and they got one," Jones said. "You didn't
have Zeke [Ezekiel Elliott], so good excuse, but they didn't
have a lot of their players. So just the fact that they did it
the way they did it, really for me it sure eliminates one of the
real excuses. You can say that you just can't have the kind of
depth, but they didn't have necessarily that kind of depth but
they had enough that they shifted some of the ability of the
team to execute their parts where they had their regulars, and
we didn't do that.”

Jones recently made headlines after it was reported last week
that the NFL was exploring options to get more than $2 million
in reimbursement for legal fees from Jones over his threat to
derail NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract extension. He
also supported Elliott’s two-month legal battle to avoid the
suspension.

Dallas News reported Jones will meet with Goodell Monday in an
attempt to appeal to the NFL commissioner in order to drop the
legal fees.

"I think I'm going to be pretty limited in my comments because
of the pending hearing that we have," Jones said. "But a hearing
before the Commissioner is like a courtroom. You separate the
wheat from the chaff, and you get right into the facts as they
are, and I welcome that.

"Looking forward to my time with him regarding both the issues
of how we were involved or not involved in the Ezekiel Elliott
issue as well as the issue of what we did or didn't do relative
to his contract negotiation. Those will be the subject areas,
but the key thing is it's really factual...you...address the
facts. I know he wants to know that, and I want him to know what
the facts are."

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