{"id":470948,"date":"2026-02-15T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:36:07","slug":"jerry-jones-says-hes-a-hall-of-famer-because-of-michael-irvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470948\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones says he&#8217;s a Hall of Famer because of Michael Irvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys owner Jerry Jones became a Hall of Famer in 2017. He recently said it never would have happened without the presence of one key player when Jones bought the team in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a gold jacket,\u201d Jones recently told TMZ. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have the gold jacket <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/02\/15\/jerry-jones-michael-irvin-hall-of-fame\/?adid=social-tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">had Michael Irvin not played for the Cowboy<\/a>s, in a manner of speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like it\u2019s less about Irvin\u2019s direct contributions and more about Irvin\u2019s attitude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be involved and be around the winning mentality or that winning physicality &#8212; when Michael says it, I listen,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>Irvin had, and still has, a singleminded desire to win. He helped coach Jimmy Johnson identify the players who needed to stay, and the players who needed to go, when Irvin reunited with his former college coach in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>That said, it\u2019s been 30 years and counting since the Cowboys made it to the NFC Championship. Which means Irvin\u2019s influence only goes so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cowboys owner Jerry Jones became a Hall of Famer in 2017. He recently said it never would have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-470948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}