“This is a smooth lie”
Club owner shows fan middle finger – and justifies it
Updated on October 8th, 2025 – 01:47 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Jerry Jones is considered an enfant terrible of the NFL. The 82-year-old club owner rarely misses a fat. Now he caused misconduct with an astonishing explanation.
Jerry Jones doesn’t care so much about what is politically correct. The owner of the Dallas Cowboys is known for his clear words. Even if they are completely inappropriate. The now 82-year-old head of the successful NFL franchise caused outrage several times with racist comments. He insulted a club owner colleague as a “flap tail” and threatened the league boss Roger Goodell to break it down.
Among other things, he is said to have an illegitimate affair with a stewardess, from which a daughter probably emerged. When Jones demanded that he recognized fatherhood, he quickly sued the woman to a million dollar compensation. According to Forbes, Jones’ assets are estimated at more than $ 20 billion.
The list could continue for a while, but we come to the latest scandal that Jones is said to have provoked. In the 37:22 victory of his cowboys about the New York Jets on Sunday, Jones from his box in the stadium in New Jersey showed a fan the middle finger. The 82-year-old had cheered a touchdown of his team against the hopelessly inferior jets, then stretched out the stink finger and showed again on the addressee for confirmation.
However, Jones explanation then made a surprise after the game. “It was a little unhappy,” said the Cowboys owner. “It was a kind of exchange with our fans who were sitting in front of me.” Numerous observers of the scene, which also circulated on a video on social media, wanted to have seen something different. Accordingly, Jones reacted to the provocation of a jets fan.
“[Die Geste] Was unintentional on my part, because that was right after our last touchdown, and we were all totally euphoric. There were no hostilities or the like. I just made a wrong gesture by hand. That was unintentional. No joke “.
However, some fans did not lose this reason to the NFL veteran. “What an excuse is that, please?” Wrote an X-user. And another said: “Oh, come, Jerry, just stand by it.” Another: “He didn’t really say that, isn’t it? Jerry, I ask you. This is a smooth lie.”
The league apparently saw it the same way. According to a statement from Tuesday, the NFL made the cowboys owner a fine of $ 250,000. It is just the amount to which the owner of the Tenessee Titans was convicted in 2009: because he had piled up the opposing fans with the outstretched middle finger.