![]() That was also the year that a woman said Michael and Erik Williams raped her at gunpoint and videotaped it. Michael was arrested for cocaine in a Dallas hotel in 1996, which is funny to me because he must have been doing so much coke that he couldn't even use the White House for it. It was during the Switzer years that Michael Irvin, Nate Newton and others bought and kept 'the White House' outside Dallas, a party house they could use because their wives were not, you know, into the whole coke and hookers thing. Jones, and even as he won a Super Bowl for the Cowboys, he presided over a team in decline. Why the hell would anybody take this job? Since Jimmy, Bill is the only serious head coach in the bunch.īarry Switzer, who ran the team from 1994 to 1997, was a tool, an old buddy of Jerral W. This raises an interesting question I've asked over the years since Jimmy Johnson left the Cowboys. The top-drawer candidates are already committed and the Cowboys are behind the curve. Bill may have wanted to go another season, but not with TO there smiling at every meeting, whining after every game and trying to kill himself accidentally taking too much pain medication in the middle of every season. Now he leaves the Cowboys in the lurch, and it's obvious to me that the Terrell Owens factor played into this. Jones should have just sat down after 2005 and parted ways. This picture I dug up from that game does not do justice to how ratty he looked, like a man that was not committed to football but too honorable just to say, fuck it I'm out. ![]() The outfit he wore to the final game of the 2005 season, when the Cowboys learned moments before the game that the outcome was meaningless, just screamed FIRE ME PLEASE, a sweatshirt, too-short sweatpants, socks that showed too much dessicated ankle and dirty sneakers. Anyone that watched the Cowboys at least twice a year could tell he was not into it for the past two seasons. But it’s the rest of his past that keeps the benefit of the doubt from ever arriving comfortably at his side.Bill Parcells is out as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, retired for the third and hopefully last time. It’s Irvin’s Hall of Fame past that allows him to showcase his personality as a TV star most of the time. While that’s fair, I’m also wondering this: If Peyton Manning or Troy Aikman had been accused of some indiscretion in a lobby without a presentation of any evidence, would their networks have taken the hotel’s side and abandoned them as quickly as Irvin’s employers chose to at the Super Bowl? You might question whether Irvin comparing his situation to Emmett Till’s or something equally horrific from that era is appropriate. But for now the hotel chain is mostly keeping everything under wraps. His lawyers would like the public to be able to view the tape. Irvin insists there is nothing to any of this. If there is more to what happened in Phoenix than a brief exchange and handshake in a hotel lobby, that will come out over time. There had been an expectation that Irvin’s attorneys might reveal the surveillance footage at the news conference, but while the court has asked for it to be presented, only the one shown to McCarthern on Tuesday, with Marriott’s attorneys present, has taken place. Marriott has remained mostly silent since the incident took place and the lawsuit was filed, beyond petitioning to move the case from state to federal court and insisting that they do not own the Renaissance property involved in the dispute. I don’t even know what I’m defending myself against.’’ This just blows my mind that in 2023 we’re still dragging and hanging brothers by a tree, that we have no opportunity to defend…. “How can I defend myself if I don’t even know what I’m defending myself against? I couldn’t even tell you what she looks like. They would take a bunch of guys that were above the law, run into the barn, tie a rope around the man, drag him through the mud and hang him from the tree,’’ Irvin said. “In this great country, this takes me back to a time when a white woman would accuse a Black man of something.
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