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Time to investigate Dallas team’s owner
It’s time we open our eyes to the real problem with the Cowboys: owner Jerry Jones.
It’s not that he’s bumbling past his prime; it’s that he has found a way to profit massively from owning a team that doesn’t compete for championships. A losing team.
Jones needs to be investigated because this is a racket, plain and simple. Dallas has become a boneyard for talent.
- Kelly White, Watauga
Jimmy Johnson to the rescue next?
Hey, Jerry Jones: Now that you and Jimmy Johnson have kissed and made up, maybe you can get him to come out of retirement and coach your team again.
- Steve Holmes, Bedford
If only we could fire the owner
Fire Jerry Jones. Now. Twenty-eight years ago. Tomorrow. For the love of God and all that is holy, fire Jerry Jones!
- Blake K. Wallace, Arlington
An insensitive comparison, Mac
Mac Engel wrote Jan. 17 about the Cowboys: “This mess makes Chernobyl look easy.” (1B, “The brutal truth about Cowboys: Major changes look impossible”) It’s disgusting to compare football and the world’s greatest nuclear disaster after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Chernobyl still affects Ukraine almost 40 years later. I’m appalled by this insensitive rhetoric.
- Nicki Morgan, Saginaw
Shipping ‘criminals’ to other states?
The editorial “NYC suing Texas bus firms proves Abbott’s border point” raises far more questions than it provides answers. (Jan. 14, 4C)
If migrants are here “illegally,” why are Texas taxpayers on the hook for millions of dollars for shipping what it classifies as criminals deeper into the United States and turning them loose instead of returning them to South and Central America? Doesn’t Gov. Greg Abbott’s action just make it more difficult to locate these people and remove them later? Doesn’t it make more sense to spend tax money to solve a problem rather than punish political rivals?
It is far past time for Texans to elect some adults to run our government.
- Larry Mason, Azle
Enslavers were no heroes
Regarding Confederate Heroes Day: There are no Confederate heroes. (Jan. 14, 1C, “Is Confederate Heroes Day part of slow secession for Texas?”)
One need look no further than the articles of secession drafted and ratified by every Confederate state to see that the Civil War was an attempt to keep slaves and slavery. Those soldiers, a few of whom were my ancestors, were fighting to keep slaves. By seceding, they made themselves traitors; by fighting for slavery, they entrenched themselves as tyrants. They should be remembered as such.
And by honoring them, we honor what they fought for. I cannot and will not do that — my Texas pride will not let me uphold things I know to be flat-out wrong.
- Eric S. Fitzgerald, Pflugerville
Quit honoring those big losers
I was born and raised in Baytown, Texas. We still have Robert E. Lee High School, established in 1928, and Lee College, established in 1934. Southern sympathizers would not accept that the South lost the war, so schools, monuments, street names and statues were named after Confederates. Across the Houston area, subdivisions are still named “Plantation.”
A Confederate holiday created in 1931 should be discontinued. The North won the war.
I’m not saying to forget history. Slavery and free labor spearheaded the antebellum South. Wealthy Southerners did not want to forfeit their way of life.
The NFL has printed on its end zones: “End racism.” We can never do that, but we must combat it.
- Gary Allen, Baytown
