Keeping Up With The Jerry Joneses

While Gene Jones looks like she was expecting an explosion in this photo, she and Jerry were much more serene a few hours later, enjoying dinner last night at a jam-packed Al Biernat’s. While the two were seated in the back against a wall, that didn’t stop an obnoxious reporter from stopping and asking Jerry how Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting at Cowboys Stadium had gone. Great, he told me; Gene noted that several thousand people had showed up. Jerry launched into a riff about how “sensitive” his Cowboys are to the current economy, and how the new stadium portends great things for the region once the recession ends. Then he added, laughing: “They shouldn’t allow somebody so passionate about the Cowboys to have so much credit …”