{"id":656418,"date":"2026-05-21T12:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656418\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:35:13","slug":"jerry-jones-on-international-travel-wear-and-tear-is-a-lot-less-than-a-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/656418\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Jones on international travel: Wear and tear is a lot less than a night out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cowboys have not played an international game since 2014 when they traveled to London to play the Jaguars. That is the only international game they have ever played.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, the Cowboys will give up a home game to play internationally in 2026, traveling to Rio de Janeiro to take on the Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>The game in Brazil will take place Week 3 in a demanding start to the season for the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>They play Washington at home in Week 2 before a 10-hour flight to Rio and an 11-hour flight home. The NFL then is sending the Cowboys to Houston for a noon CT game the following Sunday, which is followed by a Thursday night game at home four days later.<\/p>\n<p>Cowboys owner Jerry Jones dismissed the idea that travel is a concern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wear and tear is a lot less <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/article\/jerry-jones-compares-cowboys-unusual-international-schedule-to-night-out-on-the-town-023644698.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">than a night out on the town<\/a>,\u201d Jones told Jori Epstein of Yahoo Sports on Tuesday from the league\u2019s May meeting. \u201cEverybody ought to think about that. Stop, stop. It isn\u2019t like they [would be] home in bed resting up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys also have a stretch where they play three games in 15 days \u2014 the Titans at home on Nov. 22 followed by a Thanksgiving Day game against the Eagles and then a Monday Night Football game at Seattle on Dec. 7. The Monday night game on the West Coast will shorten the Cowboys\u2019 off week in Week 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of being a player, part of being that-age person, part of being all of that shape they\u2019re in and what have you, is they\u2019re able to have a little extracurricular in many ways,\u201d Jones told Epstein. \u201cIt can be a lot more damaging just walking down the block.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cowboys have not played an international game since 2014 when they traveled to London to play the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-656418","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\/656418","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=656418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}