Drunk Jerry Jones rips Parcells, Tebow

I agreed with Jean-Jacque Taylor today on Dan Patrick's radio show. The Tebow stuff isn't newsworthy, but the stuff about Parcells as it relates to the stadium (which was a huge story in the Metroplex for years) was.

 

Jerry admitted what everyone already knew: That he hired Parcells as a reaction to criticism that he would only hire puppets. That he finally was discovered saying it is the only news value. In a roundabout way, it's Jerry admitting failure. That's the buried lede.

 

Something needs to be said about a shit-headed person who'd cozy up to Jerry Jones (or any known sports person) at a local pub, then record what's said during what for all intents and purposes should be a private conversation between a few men, then run to YouTube to tell the world.
What a sorry-assed person that is.
Damn!

 

Ask and ye shall receive, Blitz.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100415/COL03/304150076/1007/SPT04/Doc++Jones+tape+more+dirty+laundry

 

For the record, Jerry did not say Bill Parcells is a douche. In fact, he said, "I love him." What he said was that Bill isn't "worth a shit," presumably as a coach/personnel guy.

 

I totally agree.

 

I'd do it if somebody paid me enough.

 

Jones is a peach of a guy around the blackjack table, especially if there's pretty girls around.

 

Years ago I wrote a travel story about the Redneck Riviera and staff at one resort said that Jones frequently flew down for trysts with Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

 

He's banging cocktail waitresses 2 at a time, players couldn't get a drink

 

Everybody looks good, compared to Fredo.

 

I'm a news guy, lifelong. I am also 100 percent in agreement with this position.

At some point, people putting these things out there, video or audio or whatever taken of people in private moments when they presumably aren't talking to the world, is A) unethical; B) sleazy douchebaggery (hey, everybody else says it, why not me?); C) self-defeating.

C is because public figures are going to stop saying anything to anybody in relaxed settings, and this is going to include lost off-the-record insight that might actually help writers do their jobs.

But mostly, it simply sucks, it's wrong, and I can't be convinced otherwise. And "public figure" doesn't matter in this kind of deal.

I shudder to think about what people would have video of me saying had the technology existed. And I wonder how many good sources would have run for the hills, and how many good stories would have been lost, had this been a threat 20 or 10 or even five years ago.