Jerry Jones just can’t help himself. The 84-year-old Cowboys owner recently shared what he called one of his “greatest memories” from a trip to Green Bay on 105.3 The Fan, but folks, the facts just aren’t backing him up. A mural featuring Micah Parsons, number 1 of the Green Bay Packers, and a caricature of Jerry Jones stands across from Lambeau Field, a fitting backdrop for the kind of folklore Jones seems to be spinning these days.
“So Cold” And So Much For That Story
Jones recounted a tale from “about 25 years ago” after a game against the Packers, where he was in a car with his “very small, 4 or 5 years old” grandchildren on a day that was “so cold.” Sounds like a classic NFL anecdote, right? Except Jon Machota from The Athletic dug into it, and there’s no game in Cowboys history that lines up with the particulars of Jones’s yarn.
Jones bought the Cowboys way back in 1989. Since then, Dallas has only snagged three wins in Green Bay, whether in the playoffs or regular season. Let’s look at those:
- The Cowboys’ 2016 victory? Kickoff temperature was 69 degrees. Definitely not “so cold.”
- Their 2008 win? Also a relatively warm day, 64 degrees at kickoff.
So, we can toss those out. They just don’t fit Jones’s frigid memory.
The Milwaukee Problem And The Missing Grandkids
That leaves the Cowboys’ 1991 win against the Packers. The kickoff temperature that day was 44 degrees. For a family from Texas visiting Wisconsin, maybe that’s “cold enough” to stick in the memory as “so cold,” even if it’s not exactly Arctic. But here’s where Jones’s story really starts to unravel. That 1991 game didn’t even take place in Green Bay! It went down at Milwaukee County Stadium. That’s a pretty big detail to misremember for a story about visiting Green Bay.
And then there’s the biggest issue: Jones’s grandchildren. The 1991 game wasn’t 25 years ago; it was actually 35 years in the past. At that time, Jones’s three children would have been 27, 25, and 22. The oldest of his verifiable grandchildren wasn’t even born until 1992! So, there’s no way Jones had any grandchildren old enough to be in the car with him, let alone “4 or 5 years old,” back in 1991.
So, the Cowboys wins Jones could possibly remember either happened too recently and were too warm (2016 and 2008), or the 1991 game wasn’t in Green Bay, wasn’t that cold, and he couldn’t have had his grandkids with him anyway. Maybe he’s actually thinking of a Cowboys loss? It was pretty darn frigid when the Packers beat Dallas in the 2014 playoffs (24 degrees at kickoff, and yeah, Dez didn’t catch it) and in 1997 (a chilly 23 degrees when Dorsey Levens ran wild). Who knows what Jerry was really recalling. But for a guy who bought the Cowboys in ’89, you’d think he’d remember his own history a little better. Guess some memories are just too good to let facts get in the way.
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Originally reported by Acme Packing Company.
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