When Jerry Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys, it was nothing more than a financial gamble. Yet, with the elusive dream of being an NFL owner finally within reach, he didn’t step back. Jones went all-in, a move that he calls truly impossible in the current landscape.

“Control was going to be auctioned off,” the team owner said of the 1989 debt-ridden Cowboys on The Gambler Podcast . “The league really wanted an answer and didn’t want to take the team over. So, they didn’t exactly look under every napkin for me, or check everything out.

“Normally, what keeps you from doing something you’re not financially eligible to do is, they just won’t let you through the door. I literally got to get in the saddle without being financially qualified. I don’t believe anybody would have ever been abl

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