Jerry Jones lives a very different life than the rest of us.
Sure, he’s the owner of the most valuable sports franchise on Earth. Yes, his net worth is estimated at close to $20 billion. He gets ferried around a good chunk of Texas in his own helicopter, and he takes exotic vacations on his personal 375-foot superyacht. He’s the kind of rich and famous where he gets to guest-star on a popular TV series like Landman just playing himself.
But the 83-year-old jetsetter is also such a seasoned globetrotter that the thought of sitting through an 11- to 12-hour flight to another country is just the cost of doing business, apparently no more of a concern than a simple evening out.
Asked this week at the league’s May meeting about the Cowboys’ upcoming Week 3 trip to Rio de Janeiro and the demanding travel schedule that will give the team no additional rest on either side of it… AND put them back on the road for another away game immediately following… AND ALSO see them host a Thursday night contest just four days after that… Jones brushed it all off rather nonchalantly.
“The wear and tear is a lot less than a night out on the town,” according to Jori Epstein of Yahoo Sports. “Everybody ought to think about that. Stop, stop. It isn’t like they [would be] home in bed, resting up.”
Even Jones’s nights out on the town are on a different level, apparently.
But if the Cowboys look like anything less than world-beaters in that Brazilian contest, expect Jones’s quote to be brought back in 10-foot-tall neon lettering to be thrown in his face.
It’s been pointed out that the Ravens will have the same rest differential as Dallas on either end of the Rio trip. (They will, however, have a slightly longer flight both ways.) Like the Cowboys, they’ll play a Sunday afternoon game the week before and after. But Baltimore gets to stay at home in Week 4, while the Cowboys will have to board another plane to Houston. And while the Ravens then stick to Sundays with the Sunday night game in Week 5, Dallas will have already hosted Tampa Bay the Thursday prior.
That’s like having to follow up that “night out on the town” with working a double… for the next two days.
But whatever. Jones won’t be the one punching the clock for any of those brutal shifts.
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This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: Jerry Jones laughs off Cowboys having no rest before, after Rio trip
Reporting by Todd Brock, Cowboys Wire / Cowboys Wire
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