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Give Jerry Jones an Emmy for Landman
I’m serious.
But now I’m seeing clips of his newest show all over social media and hearing them infest the sports podcasts I listen to while I worry about the Bills’ chances in the NFL playoffs. The NFL’s most despised owner, who has been making crazy decisions about the Cowboys for so long that you can’t remember a time when America’s Team wasn’t a cause for laughter and derision, turns out to be the one sports figure who can lay down an effective dramatic performance on TV. Yes, in the middle of “Guess the Lines,” either Bill or Cousin Sal mentioned how Jerry Jones was great in his Landman cameo, which felt like a bag of letter tiles had just got dumped onto a table, like in that Sneakers scene I love.
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