Cowboys’ Jerry Jones surprised feature covered his drinking so much

ESPN released a feature on Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones that has gotten a lot of attention for various reasons, notably his comments about Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. Those comments have prompted speculation a bout whether or not he could be facing tampering charges.

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The article also chronicled Jones drinking, something that took him by surprise.

“This surprised me very much, there was a ton of emphasis on drinking Johnnie Walker Blue,” Jones said on 105.3 The Fan [KRLD-FM], as transcribed by Jon Machota of the Dallas Morning News. “I think that is intended to make it, I guess, colorful, make it have a little bit of zing to it. But it did occupy a lot of that material, having drinks.”

Jones didn’t try to diminish or clear up how much alcohol he was actually consuming, he did set out to clarify the context in which the drinking occurred.

“I, under the right circumstances, and we were under them, the writer, Don Van Natta, we traveled, and we’d get through talking and we’d still be traveling and we would have a little bit of social time,” Jones explained. “I think that was reflected there. … Really it was kind of the right framework to have a drink while you’re talking about that stuff. Those are the kinds of things when you sit around and have a beer or whatever, that’s the kind of almost casual talk that you have.

“Now, the problem with that is, of course, that it’s very important that you some how portray when you were being serious or when you weren’t taking yourself seriously, or when you were just having some kind of good conversation.”