One peculiar day in 1994, a group of friends were sitting at a table with the Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson. They were all ex-employees of the team, and a couple of them had been fired by Jerry Jones. But when the team owner wandered to their table at an NFL social function in Orlando and raised a glass to toast… no one really responded, except for Johnson’s half-hearted acknowledgment. That gesture confirmed it all. Jones knew people didn’t show him the respect he deserved. Not even his own employees.

The only exception was people lauding his decision to hire Johnson a couple of years ago. But the two men, who were football teammates at Arkansas, soon had money and ego clashes. Perhaps it was always there. But matters worsened when the coach shared he wanted to explore the expansion team

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