As if owning "America's Team" wasn't enough responsibility, Jerry Jones also acts as the team's President and General Manager. This man clearly knows what he's doing, with one of the deepest on paper team's in the NFL. However, the one constant knock on Jones is that he takes chances on players that have "behavioral issues," to put it lightly. Why? Because he is so committed to winning that he is willing to take a chance on players that for a number of reasons can no longer find a job in the league. Some players are so good at football that character is omitted from the decision-making process.
Perfect segway to bring up Adam "Pacman" Jones. For those of you aren't familiar with Pacman, here is a brief summary of his entertaining life since getting to the NFL.
Drafted 6th overall by the Tennessee Titans in 2005, Pacman was the freak athlete coming out of his West Virginia alma mater. He was to become Tennesee's top Cornerback and a dangerous kick return man. However, off the field Pacman continued to be a dangerous presence. One night in a Vegas Strip Club, Pacman brought an estimated $80,000 in cash and "made it rain" on the strippers. Some witnesses said he poured approx. $39,000 benjamins all over the lucky strippers. However, Pacman was quick to ask, more like demand his money back. Bouncers intervened, then Pacman and his entourage intervened... Gun shots intervened... Police intervened... Then the League Office intervened with Pacman's career suspending him for the entirety of the 2007 season. Pacman said in an interview: "it ain't no sin to go to the strip club, I was just being rebellion. That's it. Period, point blank." (Ya, that's what he said. No Type O's)
While on suspension, Pacman became a tag team champion in TNA wrestling... I don't want to know any more about it then you do. Still, let it be known that the NFL wasn't particularly pleased by this venture. Anyways, newly hired Commissioner Roger Goodale had the wonderfully welcoming task of reviewing the pacman file. After, I'm sure, what was great deliberation Pacman was re-instated into the NFL as a active player.
Together with Jerry Jones and the Cowboys, the League was very concise about the conduct and behavioral specifications for Pacman's re-instatement. Basically, stay out of trouble. STAY DOWN PACMAN and you will be allowed to continue living the dream......
Jerry Jones took a big chance. He hired security guards to follow Pacman to keep him out of trouble, he gave him a condo in a nice neighborhood to keep him out of trouble....... No trouble, no cry... (Bob Marley would have hated that, still you get the point)
Pacman can't be held down... He just wants to be rebellion. Or maybe its more like Rebellion wants to be pacman.... I don't know. Anyways, he got drunk and fought one of his body guards at a hotel. He put his security guard into trouble, or not wait, into a wall... and then Pacman was in trouble. The irony and potential for play on words is endless so I would go there, again.
Which brings me to my original point, Jerry Jones spun this faster then a dj could. The SAME day Pacman was issued his suspension, Jerry and the Cowboys announced the blockbuster trade in which they acquired Wide Receiver, Texas U Longhorn, Texas native, and childhood Cowboys fan Roy Williams. Talk about a negative turned to positive. How beautifully calculated by the Dallas Owner/President/GM. 
As they say, any press is good press. "They" say that because negative press is still press, in other words people are talking about it... So negative press can still be a good thing, but what's better than that? Seriously negative news followed up by positive news... I'm sure people in Dallas have since been saying: "Hey you hear about Pacman getting suspended again.." says the first guy to the other guy. "Ya but we got Roy Williams................."
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