Jerry Jones calls coronavirus pandemic lockdown a ‘people-person hell’
Jerry Jones is not made for a pandemic lockdown.
The Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager disappeared from the public eye soon after April’s draft and stayed off the grid — at least publicly — until Dallas Cowboys training camp started up at The Star in Frisco last month.
“This whole thing is a people-person hell,” Jones said on KRLD/105.3 FM “The Fan.“ And, so, it’s been certainly a conscious exercise on my part to limit contact and to limit exposure. I’ve been doing that relative to normally how I’d be doing it or have done it the rest of my life.”
That included spending some time on his $250 mega yacht “Bravo Eugenia.”
“By nature, I’m very social. I like to be out and around, I like to spend a lot of hours out and around, and love to be with our fans, love to be with our players,” Jones said. “It looks like I’d just been taken off the face of the earth.”
In truth, Jones said, he has been as social as ever but has limited his communication to phone conversations and video calls.
“I’ve lost my voice because I’ve done so much talking,” he said. “When I get up in the morning until I literally shut my eyes at night, I’m talking, and consequently, I’ve really got issues with the thing you’re dealing with right now, my hoarseness.”
Jones, who turns 78 in October, said he’s been talking so much lately that by mid-afternoon he can hardly talk.
“I see a lot of people, but I’m very careful. I mask up. I keep my distance. I watch what I’m doing. That’s not me sitting down at the end of the bar. That is not me,” he said.
