The analogy doesn’t make any sense, but the facts remain the owners always get over on the players.
The league that makes the most money is also the league that doesn’t have guaranteed salaries. They have a franchise tag system that limits free agency.
Jerry Jones is the ring leader, so I am not surprised he said this in the past. It is from an ESPN article on how the owners always get over on players.
Shortly afterward, owners went upstairs to join a group of team and league executives, who asked what had just happened. It would turn out the deal that the union turned down would have been roughly $1 billion better for the players than the deal they would cut months later, sources say.
Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys took the floor: “Look, my daddy grew up on a farm in southwest Missouri. Every so often in the spring, the wind would come from a different part of the country, and the moon would set a different way, and the owls would start f—ing the chickens.”
Nobody knew where he was going with this story.
“The owls are f—ing the chickens,” Jones continued. “It makes no sense that they turned this down, but it’s a great thing for us.”
As you can imagine social media had thoughts on this.
Flip the pages.