madmenfootnotes: Understanding Roger’s Rage: [Jerry] Jones simply was tap dancing as fast as he could, trying to find a way to put together a $140 million package that would keep him in the running with dozens of “big boy” bidders. Besides [Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss] there was a Japanese group said to be “price insensitive.” A source close to the sale says, “The Japanese were ready to make an offer with no real sense of how much the Dallas Cowboys were worth. To them it was like, ‘Oh, Dallas Cowboys! How much? Two hundred million? Three hundred?’ [Tom] Landry might have coached for another century if the Japanese had bought the team. But World War II had a profound effect on Bum. He just wasn’t comfortable with the thought of selling the Dallas Cowboys to the Japanese, whether or not the league would have approved it. via - Ed Driscoll I had a conversation with someone about this today (not the cowboys part, but the roger sterling racism) and I feel as if that episode is so pertinent to the world right now, which may have been inadvertent but I suppose probably not (did you know advertent isn’t a word? you probably did, but I obviously didn’t and my mind has just been BLOWN). ANYWAY, it’s interesting and really sad how there are some things that unfortunately never change.

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Understanding Roger’s Rage:

[Jerry] Jones simply was tap dancing as fast as he could, trying to find a way to put together a $140 million package that would keep him in the running with dozens of “big boy” bidders. Besides [Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss] there was a Japanese group said to be “price insensitive.” A source close to the sale says, “The Japanese were ready to make an offer with no real sense of how much the Dallas Cowboys were worth. To them it was like, ‘Oh, Dallas Cowboys! How much? Two hundred million? Three hundred?’ [Tom] Landry might have coached for another century if the Japanese had bought the team. But World War II had a profound effect on Bum. He just wasn’t comfortable with the thought of selling the Dallas Cowboys to the Japanese, whether or not the league would have approved it.

via - Ed Driscoll

I had a conversation with someone about this today (not the cowboys part, but the roger sterling racism) and I feel as if that episode is so pertinent to the world right now, which may have been inadvertent but I suppose probably not (did you know advertent isn’t a word? you probably did, but I obviously didn’t and my mind has just been BLOWN). ANYWAY, it’s interesting and really sad how there are some things that unfortunately never change.

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