Some partnerships are magic. Others? They blow up spectacularly on live TV – or in this case, for millions on Netflix. The story of Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson is the latter for Cowboys fans who’ve lived the drama since 1989. When Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys, he fired the legendary Tom Landry and brought in Johnson, his old Arkansas teammate, to revive a franchise that was painfully bad – 1-15 bad. Fast forward a few years, and boom: two back-to-back Super Bowl championships. The promise was clear. The future looked golden. And then it all got messy.

What went wrong? The short answer: egos, control, and a fight over credit. The long answer is a saga worth at least a Netflix series (that’s exactly what happened). Their chessboard wasn’t just the field but the boardroom –

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