The “worst” Cowboys of all time- #8, Jimmy Johnson

The “worst” Cowboys of all time: #8, Jimmy Johnson
When you think of Superman, you think of the cape. Batman? The cowl. Wonder Woman? The truth lasso (man's worst enemy). In the sports world Michael Jordan is remembered for the wagging tongue or the shoes. “Yeah Money, it’s gotta be the shoes!” (Missed the reference? Mars Blackmon. Look it up, young Jedi Knights.) Tiger Woods has – or had - the victory-is-coming-and-there’s-nothing-you-can-do-about-it fist pump. Aaron Rodgers? The faux title belt “accessorization,Women's Miami Dolphins Jersey.” Former head coach is, undoubtedly, most synonymous with his hair. It was helmet-like. It was otherworldly. It rarely moved. It was reminiscent of the hair styling of the original Oopma Loompas. It was, most importantly, an endless fountain of critical material for ‘Skins fans. Was it real? What sort of “product” helped create this immovable object that defied the most violent forces of nature? And was the product available over-the-counter or only on the black market to Hollywood starlets and Johnson (in other words, the obsessively vain)?
Unfortunately, there was much more to Johnson than just his follicle fixations. Under that hairspray-saturated lid was a brilliant football mind. Johnson, head coach of the Cowboys from 1989 through 1993 (it seemed like so much longer), oversaw Dallas’ rise from the lowest depths of the NFL to its peak. Johnson, 1-15 in his first season, quickly turned the Cowboys into the most dominant team in the NFL and won the Super Bowl in his final two seasons with Dallas. However, the “what” he did with the Cowboys wasn’t nearly as offensive as “how” he did it.
Johnson didn’t just make Dallas good again,Yeremiah Bell Jersey; he equipped his Cowboys teams with a brazen attitude and overflowing arrogance to accompany their skill. In case you weren’t sure whether Dallas was better than you, they’d let you know it and, once they were done proving it, they’d rub your nose in the stench of the post-game carnage that was once your hope and competitive determination. Like Johnson himself, his teams dared to be great, talked about it constantly and backed up every bit their self-promoting monologue.
The coupling of Johnson the coach and Jerry Jones the owner was as electric as the marriage of two A-list Hollywood stars; thankfully, it also had similar staying power. Success couldn’t compel the two bloated egos to coexist. After just 5 years at the helm, and in spite of coming off two consecutive Super Bowl titles, Jimmy and Jerry accomplished what no opponent seemed capable of: the destruction of what might have become the greatest dynasty in NFL history. While Dallas managed another title after Johnson’s departure,Reggie Bush Jersey, it’s hard to tell how many Super Bowls they would have won with him. Fortunately, like the true ingredients of Johnson’s hair product cocktail, we’ll never know.
Hail…Sons of Washington!