Jerry Jones scorned after boasting of Dallas Cowboys attendance amid COVID pandemic
Another Dallas Cowboys season is over way too early and Jerry Jones is the butt of jokes and scorn.
That’s nothing new, but this time the reasons are a little different.
The Cowboys owner and general manager is being lampooned for bragging about the team’s attendance at AT&T Stadium amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cowboys averaged more than 27,000 fans a game, easily the most in the league. Most teams limited attendance to lower capacities or did not allow fans.
Jones made the comments during his weekly radio show Tuesday morning on KRLD/105.3 “The Fan.”
“I think we set the world record for attendance of a venue this year in our stadium, in the middle of a pandemic,” Jones said. “We did it extremely — the results were extremely safe.”
Perhaps, but the truth is that without rigorous contact tracing it is impossible to say for sure. One thing that is known is that North Texas, at the moment, is in the middle of its worst point of the COVID-19 crisis.
This story was originally published January 5, 2021 at 11:57 AM.
