{"id":80319,"date":"2025-12-08T13:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80319\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:47:12","slug":"sbjs-influence-125-jerry-jones-dallas-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80319\/","title":{"rendered":"SBJ&#8217;s Influence 125: Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-awards-and-honors \">Influence 125 highlights the most influential sports business figures of the past quarter-century. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/honors.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/influence-125\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-awards-and-honors \">Jerry Jones\u2019 enduring influence flows from the Dallas Cowboys\u2019 unmatched valuation, global brand relevance, the audacious success of AT&amp;T Stadium and his wealth. But there\u2019s something almost mystical about the way people talk about Jones \u2014 a sense that, when it comes to marketing and monetizing sports, he simply knows things nobody else does. Even 30 years later, few people in the NFL forget that they\u2019re all wealthier because Jones, SBJ\u2019s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, went to court to force the league to change its sponsorship model. His team\u2019s on-field mediocrity has complicated his legacy, but still today, all big ideas in the NFL run through Jones. <\/p>\n<p>More from the SBJ archives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Influence 125 highlights the most influential sports business figures of the past quarter-century. See the list. Jerry Jones\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1044,102,104,103,39158,80,39157],"class_list":{"0":"post-80319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-most-influential","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-print"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}