jerry jones net worth
Jerry Jones is anorthere true “football billionaire.” Fiercely competitive, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys made his first fortune in natural gas in the 1970s after leading the Arkansas Razorbacks to victory in the Cotton Bowl in 1964. He bought the then-junky Cowboys for $158 million in 1989. Jones menotred the team, led by quarterback Troy Aikman and running back Emmitt Smith, to three Super Bowl championships in the 1990s, often standing on the sidelines over the shoulder of his head coaches. Today the team is worth $1.5 billion before debt, and nearly all of Jones’ $1.5 billion net worth is derived from the Cowboys. Jones recently sold $300 million worth of his personal real estate to help pay for the current construction of a new $1 billion Cowboys Stadium. Yet all that money couldn’t buy him happiness last weekend, as his Cowboys lost to the rival New York Giants in the divisional round of the playoffs. All season the Cowboys, led by star quarterback Tony Romo, sat atop the NFC,
