A report says that NFL team owners could execute a “nuclear option” against Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
If the commissioner thinks that the sanction, a $500,000 fine, isn’t “adequate or sufficient,” then he could take further action, which includes sending the matter to the NFL’s Executive Committee. That body, according to the report, has the ability to prompt the “[c]ancellation or forfeiture of the franchise in the League of any member club involved or implicated.”
Then, according to the directive, he’d have to sell the Cowboys.
On Monday, Jones’s son, Stephen Jones, told a radio station that the PFT report is “laughable.”
“Our thought process and Jerry’s thought process is we want what’s in the best interest of the league. We’re not against Roger (Goodell), we just don’t know if this is the time to be talking about major contract extensions when the league certainly has several challenges in terms of where we are as a league. … Whether that’s our ratings, whether that’s concerns with our sponsors,” Stephen Jones said.
“I think we need to be focusing on our business and not necessarily on contract extensions,” he added.
As PFT noted, should the NFL execute its nuclear option against Jones, it would likely lead to years of legal cases.
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