Tom Osborne is many things, but Jerry Jones? The eccentric owner of the Dallas Cowboys, Jones, is filling his defense with players who have a troubled past. Jason Whitlock of Fox Sports and the Kansas City Star compares Jones to Osborne, who had a way of rehabbing a once lost soul.
Right now, Jones is the Tom Osborne of professional football. Jones believes he can save young men by using football. He turned Terrell Owens into a relatively good teammate. Jones — taking a cue from President Bush — unarmed Tank Johnson of his weapons of mass destruction.
Come on Jason. Jerry Jones just wants to win football games and Tom Osborne wanted his (troubled) players to win at being the best men they could be, on or off the field. It really sickens me to this day that Osborne is criticized for helping out Lawrence Phillips. At the time, he was only ( I don’t mean ”only” like that, so save the letters ) involved in the incident where he roughed up his ( and Scott Frost’s current at the time ) ex-girlfriend. No one knew what Lawrence would do in the next 13 years, but this incident of the “Osborne Pardon” still was brought up every time LP did something bad. Comparing TO to JJ is just, in the word made famous by Mike Tyson, LUDICROUS!
April 25th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Agree!
April 29th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
What makes Osborne better than Jerry Jones? Absolutely nothing. Larry Phillips was a thug and still is. Tom made a mistake. Pull your head out of the sand and clean your scarlet colored glasses.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Who in the hell is Larry Phillips? Are you drunk? You need to pull your head out………but I don’t beleive sand is what it’s buried in.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Hey clueless, Larry is short for Lawrence…are all of you on here this clueless and crass. Wait don’t answer that, I already know the answer.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
@ Bitter Ed
Nothing you can say or do really surprises me anymore. The little joke about sybil back in the day was like pinning the tail on the Ed wasn’t it? Go root for another team, Ed. Huskers will not miss you.
April 29th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Hindsight is always 20/20. Therefore, you should have excellent vision since you talk out of your hind most of the time.
April 29th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
If you haven’t figured this out Ed is a troll.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Whitlock is comparing apples to oranges. Jerry Jones is the owner of a business who makes decisions based on the bottom line. I personally think the guy is an egotistical ass who gets in the way of his own success, but it’s his team and his business. Osborne is a former college head coach and current AD, big difference. As far as Phillips - or anyother player who found hiself in trouble - goes, I would bet that Osborne while coaching never played a single player who wasn’t eligible, by NCAA standards, to compete in college athletics. Are head coaches supposed to bench any player they don’t think is a choir boy? Gimme a break.