'Jerry Jones Will Sell Dallas Cowboys in Next 2 Years,' Claims Shameful FOX Sports 'Report'
LAS VEGAS - The fact that FOX Sports/FS1's star attraction is the reprehensible Skip Bayless is a long-established embarrassment to anybody who values integrity, honesty and ethics, journalistically and personally.
And as a result of his platform? Anyone else who aspires to a big media stage while also being willing to sacrifice integrity, honesty and ethics is sadly tempted to mimic Bayless' fraudulent style.
Enter Craig Carton, who is continuing his credibility-free NFL "reporting'' by informing his FS1 audience, small though it may be, that "Jerry Jones will sell the Dallas Cowboys within the next two years."
Carton, the New York-based shock jock maybe most famous for his 42-month prison sentence after being convicted of wire and securities fraud (he owes $4.8 million in restitution), has no background or connection with Jones and the Cowboys - but like Bayless, who has made a career out of pretending he possesses Cowboys insight, knows that discussing "America's Team'' can be a career boost.
And so here in Las Vegas at Super Bowl Week, Carton found a way to do so.
"It's as clear as day to me that Jerry Jones will sell the Dallas Cowboys within the next two years,'' Carton said. "He will not own the team beyond the next two years, because this ain't Jerry Jones, and Jerry Jones can't go out like that, because that's not what Jerry Jones is all about.
We have no idea what Carton means by "going out like that''; Jones, 81, has no plans to "go out.''
Carton, meanwhile, went on to demonstrate his lack of understanding about the Jones family, and maybe about estate planning, adding, "Plus, you have a state tax issue. Sell the team for about $10 billion, give your kids the inheritance, and that's a wrap.''
Of course, as many people know (Texans, certainly), there is no "state tax issue'' in Texas because ... there is no state tax.
Additionally, as anybody who has ever visited with Jerry and the Jones family on this subject, the plan is to literally never sell the Cowboys ... because 1) the team represents an enormous source of almost endless billions of dollars for the Joneses, for endless generations to come, 2) the franchise is a centerpiece of the "family business'' and 3) Jones and his family absolutely love everything about their football involvement - well beyond the money.
But ... the money. The Jones family's worth is in excess of $10 billion. Jones' children and grandchildren don't need an "inheritance'' because ... they own the Dallas Cowboys, plus assorted other investments and businesses involving everything from oil and gas to real estate to automobile sales to software development to restaurant, catering and entertainment concerns to ... well, we could go on almost forever here.
"Let me make this very clear," Jones has said to us and others on numerous occasions and in numerous forms, most recently when the idea of a $10 billion valuation came up. "I'll say it definitively. I will never do it. I will never sell the Cowboys. Ever."
Meanwhile, it appears the Bayless Wannabes, we can say definitely, will never cease in their shameless efforts for wrongly-gained popularity. Ever.
