Cowboys owner Jerry Jones might not be a golfer, but he’s not exactly one to play it safe, either.
So it’s no surprise that he identifies with golfer John Daly more than most tour pros, since they seem to share a certain something.
During an interview on KRLD-FM 105.3, Jones got into a discussion about the bombastic golfer-turned sideshow, and philosophy as well.
“Well, John is - I guess it’s just obvious - when you’ve been down and out, seemingly, as many times as John has been, then you just become endeared to your fans,” Jones said, via the Dallas Morning News. “And that’s happened with John. We all know that no one’s had more foibles, or demonstrated more foibles, than John looks like than Jerry knows Jerry’s had.
“So it’s easy for me to identify with John. I like the way he plays the game. I like the way he does life. I think his swing, I think it’s indicitive of what John is about. That thing, when he draws back and hits it; he curls all the way around. He’s got that big ol’ belly. He goes completely around and that golf club seems to touch the other toe and he just unwinds and hits that little ol’ ball on the other side of that 360-degree arc. Now that’s impossible to do almost. He does it almost every time. Imagine the leverage. It’s the way he hits life, I think.”
Jones has hit life the same way, in some regard, building the biggest stadium with the biggest TV in the middle of it, and putting a team together in similar ways in his eternal quest for “glory hole.”
Then again, Daly hasn’t won a major since 1995. Come to think of it, that’s the last time the Cowboys got past the divisional round of the playoffs themselves.
So keep swinging hard boys, you’re at least entertaining the rest of us.