Hold Up, Was That Jerry Jones on ‘Landman’?
Dallas Cowboy fans, my heart goes out to you this week. The Washington Commanders scored a last-minute touchdown on Monday to add another loss to Cooper Rush and Co.’s dismal season, and then longtime Cowboys owner Jerry Jones furthered the despair when he promised “no change” to the coaching staff next year. Jones did offer fans a small change, however, as he transformed from general manager to Landman actor overnight.
The Cowboys owner appeared in a surprise cameo on Sunday’s episode of the latest Taylor Sheridan drama on Paramount+. Not on Yellowstone—those are real cowboys—but on Landman, which stars Billy Bob Thornton. Jones plays himself in the cameo, delivering an inspiring message to Jon Hamm’s hospitalized character (does his name matter?) regarding the importance of family and why he bought the American football team back in 1989.
“I’m not saying I’ve done anything right, but I made my mind up a long time ago that I was gonna work with my kids,” Jones says in his heartfelt monologue. “They’re involved in everything. They’re involved in my leasing, oil and gas, real estate. So when I got the Cowboys, I got it so that we could all work together. I thought I was doing it for them, but the one that got the most out of it was me. I’m pretty proud of them Cowboys. I’m pretty proud of the stuff we’ve done in oil and gas. It pales in comparison to how proud I am to have lived my life working with my kids.”
The cameo shocked sports fans, with one viewer writing on X that “Jerry Jones being a decent actor was not on my bingo card.” That joke is on Esquire’s list of phrases to give up saying in 2025, but we’ll let it slide since the new year just started.
The most hilarious bit for this viewer, however, is that Jerry Jones said quite the opposite quote to the Athletic earlier that day. When reporter Saad Yousuf asked the Cowboys owner if he was thinking about letting someone else step in as general manager, he responded saying, “No. I bought the team, I think the first thing to come out of my mouth … somebody asked, ‘Did you buy this for your kids?’ I said, ‘Hell no. I bought it for me.’ ”
I kid you not, readers! Those exact words, on the very same Sunday. Give that man his Emmy!
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