2. Jerry Jones life
• Jerry Wayne Jones was born on Oct.13, 1942
• He moved from Los Angeles to Little Rock,
Arkansas
• Jerry got a scholarship to play football for the
Razorbacks
• Jones made a fortune drilling for oil.
3. Jones trying to get a team
• When he was 23 he tried to buy the San Diego
Chargers.
• In February of 1989 Jones sold everything he
had and bought the Dallas Cowboys for $140
million.
• It was a record price and it was considered
foolish because the team was a mess.
4. The Dallas Cowboys
• The Dallas Cowboys had five Super Bowl
Championships in 1971, 1977, 1992, 1993,
and 1995.
• They also had twenty-one Division
Championships.
• The team only had one NFL MVP and it was
Emmitt Smith RB in 1993.
• Emmitt and 18 other former Dallas Cowboys
have been inducted into the NFL Hall Of Fame
6. JARRY WORLD
• This new home for the Cowboys will hold
110,000 people
• This is the largest stadium in the world
• It was estimated that the build would only
cost $650 million but it ended up to be $1.15
BILLION
• The stadium had the worlds largest HD video
screen which hangs from the 20 yard line to
20 yard line
7. Other activities at the stadium
• Concerts
• Religious Ceremonies
• Basketball Games
• College Football
• High School Football
• Soccer
• Motocross Races
8. JARRY IS PAYING
• Jarry is paying all of the construction cost out
of his pocket
• Arlington voters approved the increase of the
city’s sales tax by 0.5%
• The hotels tax went up by 2%
• Car rental by 5%
• Just the city of Arlington provided $325
million in bonds and funding’s.
9. PLACES I GOT THIS STUFF
• WWW.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/JERRY_JONES
• WWW.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/COWBOYS_STADI
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• WWW.NBCSPORTS.MSNBC.COM/ID/21268968
• WWW.SPORTSECYCLOPEDIA.COM/NFL/DALLA
S/COWBOYS.HTML