Last year, Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones announced that former head coach Jimmy Johnson would one day be inducted into the team’s famed Ring of Honor.
One year later though, Johnson has yet to be inducted, and Jones appears to be tiring of answering the question “when.”
Jones said in an interview with NBC’s Newy Scruggs, “When I put him in and the circumstances and what I do with that, there’s a lot more than Jimmy to think about here. I’ve got a lot of other lives out here that have laid a lot on the line, on the field that need to be in that Ring of Honor as well.
“So how I do that, what I do, I get to make that decision. And it isn’t at the end of the day, all tailored around whether Jimmy is sniveling or not.”
Even though Johnson and Jones appear to have buried the hatchet that divided them for so long, and publicly admitted he shouldn’t have fired Johnson when he did, he refuses to offer a timeline for Johnson’s induction into the Ring of Honor.
Jones said, “I’ll be very sensitive and very appreciative of what Jimmy is, but it’s too much to say, ‘Well that is the thing that gets up and goes to bed at night’ when we think about the Ring of Honor as to Jerry and Jimmy’s relationships.
“Jerry and Jimmy are two of the luckiest guys that have ever been on this Earth, to get to sit here and have this talked about.”
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