Jones admits he once cried on Candlestick over Cowboys ownership of 49ers originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys is passionate about his franchise rivalry with the 49ers.
So much so that Jones cried one day.
After San Francisco beat Dallas on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” in Week 8, the 82-year-old explained to 105.3 The Fan how the 49ers’ 1995 NFC championship game victory about the Cowboys brought him to tears of dedication.
“Personally, and we don’t need to go back, one of the few times I cried – literally cried – was in the (1995 NFC Championship Game) that we had at Candlestick Park in San Francisco,” recalls Jones (with the Dallas Cowboys). “We lost that game and I thought we had a great team. We lost him when (Barry Switzerland) was our coach and (Deion Sanders) was a 49er. We came back and I thought we had a chance to win after a disastrous start.
The 49ers beat the Cowboys, 38-28, to advance Super Bowl XXIX at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami. San Francisco ultimately defeated the San Diego Chargers, 49-26, for its fifth and final Vince Lombardi Trophy.
As Jones mentioned, this Dallas team was solid. The Cowboys entered with a 13-4 record (including the playoffs) and rallied to make the game interesting after trailing 21-0. But not even the Pro Football Hall of Fame duo from Dallas – quarterback Troy Aikman And running back Emmitt Smith — could the Cowboys pull off a victory.
And yet, despite dropping this game and the last four 49ers-Cowboys clashes, Jones has great respect for San Francisco.
“I can go back that far (to the 1995 NFC championship game) with you on what San Francisco has meant to us,” Jones said. “We had some great days in San Francisco; go back quite a long way to those great days. (49ers) are an excellent franchise; they are great. We have a great history with them.
“Now they’ve been to more championship games than us, but I think we both need to see a Super Bowl…”
Both franchises have provided great history in the NFL and made each other better in the process.
Hilariously, Jones acknowledged that San Francisco and Dallas are yearning for that sixth Super Bowl victory.
