Jerry Jones receives SBJ's Lifetime Achievement Award Published: May 24, 2017 at 02:21 PM Senior National Columnist One by one, members of the Jones family arrived on a red carpet Wednesday night, there to celebrate the patriarch who is at the center of their family and, more famously, the NFL. Jerry Jones received Sports Busine s Journal's Lifetime Achievement Award, an honor previously bestowed upon former Major League Baseball Commi sioner Bud Selig, and the late United States Amba sador to Ireland the chairman Dan Rooney. The award is Josh Adams Jersey meant to recognize contributions to sport that extend off the field and there are just a few people who have had as great an impact on the busine s of football as Jones has had since he purchased the in 1989 for $140 million and became one of the game's most influential owners, and certainly its most recognizable. "The opportunity, I'm going to tell this audience, I was a walk-on in college terms, that's without a scholarship," Jones said before receiving the award. "The NFL inspired me and it made me dream and want to be more than I could have ever dreamed. The other part is to have gotten to have done it Chase Hansen Jersey with my family and a sociates. I am truly being recognized for what couldn't have happened without a great team and my immediate family being the ones closest to me. That is really a celebration for all of us tonight." While Jones' teams have had mixed results with him acting Taysom Hill Jersey as a de facto general manager - the won three Super Bowls in the early 1990's, but have not gotten out of the divisional round of the playoffs since -- Jones is widely credited with a busine s vision that has led to a great deal of the league's financial succe s. He recognized before almost anyone else the value in building his own brand. He helped Fox get the television contract for NFC games -- opening a new avenue for lucrative television rights -- at a time when others were willing to accept a cut in rights fees, he carved out an agreement with the league that allowed the to market its own apparel and he built a billion-dollar stadium that is considered the best in the league. Most recently, Jones was a powerful force in the league approving the ' relocation to a new stadium in Los Angeles and the ' Joe Horn Jersey move to Las Vegas. "He's obviously built up the league in terms of just the public, and the interest, he talks about football in such a pa sionate way, the growth of the game, he's been a large part of that," said Mark Wilf, the co-owner of the . Not surprisingly, Jones' pitch for hosting the NFL draft centers on how big the interest in football is in Dallas. "Philadelphia was a Terron Armstead Jersey great draft, a real bonus for Philadelphia," Jones said. "On the other hand, Texas is as hot a place for football as there is in the United States. There are a lot of great places we're so proud of in this country, but none more football-oriented or football-enthusiastic than the DFW area of Texas." This article has been reproduced in a new format and may be mi sing content or contain faulty links. Please use the Contact Us link in our site footer to report an i sue.
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