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SIDELINES HISTORY PLAYOFF RECORDS 2014 SEASON PLAYERS STEPHEN
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design and development has also landed him a spot
on the NFL’s New Stadium Committee.
Following the Cowboys 12-4 regular season finish
and 2014 NFC Eastern Division title, Stephen and
Jerry Jones were named the co-recipients of the NFL
Executive of the Year Award as presented by Sports
Illustrated’s Monday Morning Quarterback.
Beginning in 1989, Jones has played an integral
role in the team’s dramatic rise from a 1-15 record
to being the NFL’s “Team of the Decade” with three
Super Bowl titles in the 1990s. As he enters his 27th
NFL season, Jones is a driving force behind the
Cowboys push to return to the NFL’s elite level of
teams. His recent work has seen the club restock its
roster with some of the game’s top talent and the
recent results have produced winning records in
seven of the last 12 seasons - and division titles in
2007, 2009 and 2014.
Since 2010, Jones has helped establish one of
the more impressive drafting records in the NFL. In
those five years, Dallas has selected 13 players who
have become starters, with five of those becoming
All-Rookie Team selections. Those same five players
have become Pro Bowlers who have already made a
collective total of eight trips to the annual all-star
game: Dez Bryant (selected in 2010), Tyron Smith
(2011), DeMarco Murray (2011), Travis Frederick
(2013) and Zack Martin (2014).
Over the course of the last 13 years, Dallas draft
classes have produced 31 players who have gone
on to start for the Cowboys while 14 of those choices
became All-Rookie Team selections. Those same
drafts also produced 16 Pro Bowl players who collectively
combined for 46 all-star game appearances
in Roy Williams (2002 draft), Andre Gurode (2002),
Terence Newman (2003), Jason Witten (2003),
DeMarcus Ware (2005), Marion Barber (2005), Jay
Ratliff (2005), Jason Hatcher (2006), Nick Folk
(2007), Anthony Spencer (2007), Mike Jenkins
(2008), Bryant (2010), Smith (2011), Murray
(2011), Frederick (2013) and Martin (2014).
In the ever-evolving strategy that dictates a
team’s competitiveness in the current collective bargaining
agreement, Jones’ performance in managing
the Cowboys salary cap, and the club’s activity in free
agency, has played a prominent role in the team’s
ability to compete at the NFL’s highest level. Jones’
involvement in shaping the Dallas roster under the
salary cap was critical in allowing the Cowboys to
maintain one of the NFL’s most talented core group
of players throughout the decade of the 1990s. His
creativity and care taking of the Cowboys cap played
a key role in the team’s six division titles and four conference
championship game appearances.
During a historic two-year period of time, Jones
was involved in signing five Cowboys stars who were
considered the best players in the game at their
respective positions. Between September of 1993 and
September of 1995, Jones helped orchestrate contract
agreements with running back Emmitt Smith,
quarterback Troy Aikman, fullback Daryl Johnston, wide
receiver Michael Irvin and cornerback Deion Sanders.
Shortly after the turn of the century, Jones began
spearheading the club’s new stadium efforts, overseeing
every element of the development and construction
of the venue while also working closely with
local government, community and business leaders.
He was directly responsible for the club’s successful
referendum campaign in the fall of 2004 that saw the
City of Arlington agree to join forces with the
Cowboys in building a new state-of-the-art stadium.
Opened to the public in May of 2009, the stadium’s
dramatic first season of operation resulted in
the venue being named the Sports Facility of the
Year by the Sports Business Journal in May of 2010.
The 100,000-plus seat stadium established the
attendance record for an NFL regular season game
as 105,121 witnessed the September 20, 2009
home opener, while the 108,713 who attended the
NBA All-Star Game on February 14, 2010 became
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the largest crowd to witness a basketball game in
the history of the sport.
In just over six years of operation, more than
eight million fans have attended events that included
high school and collegiate football, major college
basketball, international soccer, professional bull riding,
Motocross, world championship boxing and a
handful of concerts that featured world renowned
recording artists. Another three million visitors
passed through the twelve-story high doors of the
stadium for daily public tours of the venue.
With its architectural versatility and cutting edge
media capabilities, AT&T Stadium has become a visible
beacon that has established North Texas as a
major focal point on the sports and entertainment
canvas of North America.
The brilliant home of the Cowboys has become a
powerful catalyst in attracting a wide range of national
and international events that will define the future of
the region for generations to come. The stadium has
already played host to Super Bowl XLV (February of
2011), the NCAA Final Four in men’s basketball (April
of 2014) and the inaugural College Football Playoff
Championship Game (January of 2015). Other top
flight sporting events for the future include, the annual
Goodyear Cotton Bowl, the Texas A&M-Arkansas
football Southwest Classic and the annual “AdvoCare
Classic” collegiate football series just to name a few.
In the summer of 2013, Jones was the organization’s
point person in the negotiations that established
the multi-year naming rights agreement for the
Cowboys home in Arlington with AT&T. Shortly after
the new name for AT&T Stadium was announced,
Jones took on the responsibilities for developing a
partnership with the City of Frisco and The Frisco
Independent School District to develop a new home
for the Cowboys training headquarters in Frisco that
is scheduled to open in 2016.
Prior to focusing much of his energy on the innovative
projects in Arlington and Frisco, Jones’ stewardship
of historic Texas Stadium in Irving left behind
a legacy of facility management that maximized the
use and visibility of the venue into a year-round destination
for sporting, entertainment, community and
corporate events on an unprecedented level.
Jones has enjoyed a life-long association with the
game of football. A four-year letterman as a linebacker
and special teams standout at the University of
Arkansas, Jones was a starter for the Razorbacks in
the Orange Bowl Classic Game that followed the 1986
season. Prior to attending the University of Arkansas,
Jones was an all-state quarterback and a three-year
starter at Catholic High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
He graduated from Arkansas in 1988 with a
degree in chemical engineering, and immediately
went to work in the oil and gas business for JMC
Exploration as an engineer.
On Feb. 25, 1989, Jerry Jones purchased the
Dallas Cowboys and installed Stephen into a key
front office position as one-of-three vice presidents
with the club.
Jones is a member and past president of the
Dallas Chapter of the Young Presidents’
Organization. He serves on the board of directors for
the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association. He also serves
on the board for the Dallas Citizens Council and the
Baylor Health Care System Foundation. He is a former
member of the NFL’s Business Ventures
Committee, and he is also a member of the board of
directors for Legends Hospitality - the joint stadium
catering venture involving the Dallas Cowboys and
the New York Yankees organizations that Jones was
instrumental in creating. In the spring of 2015, Jones
was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame.
Jones (6/21/64) was born and reared in Little
Rock. He is married to the former Karen Hickman of
El Dorado, Arkansas, and the couple has three
daughters and a son: Jessica, Jordan, Caroline and
John Stephen.