Back in 1992, the Dallas Cowboys were the NFL’s rising power under Jimmy Johnson. They rolled into Washington at 11–2, already holding a playoff spot, and walked out with a 20–17 loss. Johnson hated everything about the way they played, and he made that crystal clear the moment the team boarded the charter home.

Appearing on the Family Business Podcast with Norv and Steph , Johnson revisited that night and the unusually hard line he drew at 30,000 feet.

“We’d already made the playoffs, and we went there. We flopped around and just played horrible. I was so mad. I got on the plane, and the flight attendant started to serve the food, and I said, ‘No, no, no, no food. They don’t deserve to eat. They didn’t play well enough to eat,” he said.

That time, many ex-Cowboys players expressed the

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