{"id":91463,"date":"2025-08-20T07:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91463"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:36:21","slug":"amazing-the-wild-story-of-jerry-jones-asking-jimmy-hoffa-for-money-to-buy-the-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=91463","title":{"rendered":"AMAZING!! The Wild Story of Jerry Jones Asking Jimmy Hoffa for Money to Buy the Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"l-article__header\">\n<h1 class=\"c-headline c-headline--extra-large entry-title\">Documentary: Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Asked Jimmy Hoffa For Loan to Buy Chargers<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"l-article__meta\">\n<div id=\"subscribe-form-416060668\" class=\"c-subscribe-form\">\n<div class=\"c-subscribe-form__overlay\">\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\">\n<p>While the Dallas Cowboys\u00a0might be staring down a pretty brutal season in 2025 with uncertainty almost everywhere on the field, one thing we can\u2019t avoid is the objective awesomeness of a brand new Netflix documentary: \u201cAmerica\u2019s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys\u201d which dropped all 8 episodes on August 19.<\/p>\n<p>One of the crazier revelations from the documentary, directed by brothers Chapman and Maclain Way, was that\u00a0Cowboys owner Jerry Jones\u00a0almost bought the San Diego Chargers in 1966 after a meeting with Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa \u2014 one of the most notorious figures in American history and someone who was well known to have deep ties to organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>In order to buy the Chargers, Jones would have had to take out a loan from the Teamsters. He\u2019d previously borrowed money from Hoffa and the Teamsters to buy a string of Shakey\u2019s Pizza franchises.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI met with Hoffa and he told me that (the Teamsters) thought for awhile they could get into professional football,\u201d Jones said in Episode 2. \u201cSo I went to my father and told him what was going on and he said \u2018This is insane, what happens when you can\u2019t pay?\u2019 \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div>That bit of advice from his father caused Jones to back off and the Chargers were eventually sold to businessman Gene Klein, who would own the team until 1984 and was also one of the founding owners of the NBA\u2019s Seattle SuperSonics \u2014 now the reigning NBA champion\u00a0Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Hoffa One Of America\u2019s Most Infamous Figures<\/h2>\n<div>Hoffa\u2019s disappearance in 1975 remains one of the most intriguing unsolved mysteries in American history.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The president of the International Teamsters Union from 1957 to 1971, Hoffa\u2019s ties to the mafia and organized crime only added to his power as he oversaw a union that claimed over 1 million members until he was convicted on charges of jury tampering, attempted bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraud in 1964 and eventually sentenced to 13 years in prison in 1967.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>U.S. President Richard Nixon commuted Hoffa\u2019s sentence in 1971 with the condition he could not participate in union activities until 1980.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After Hoffa unsuccessfully tried to regain control of the Teamsters in 1975, he disappeared and was eventually declared dead in 1982 \u2014 thought to have been murdered as part of a mafia hit although the circumstances of his disappearance and\/or death still remain a source of fascination to the general public.<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Jones Eventually Made \u2018Deal of the Century\u2019<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>The Netflix documentary isn\u2019t the first place the Hoffa story has been told by Jones \u2014 he told\u00a0HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Sports\u201d in 2015\u00a0\u2014 but the key is he eventually did buy an NFL team when he purchased the Cowboys from Bum Bright for $140 million in February 1989 with money mostly made off of oil and gas speculation in Northern California.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 purchase of the Cowboys represents probably the greatest deal in the history of professional sports. As of 2025, the Cowboys were valued at $12 billion, making them the most valuable professional sports franchise in the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cVery early on, the club was losing (money),\u201d Jones told ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter in 2017. \u201cThe Cowboys, that I bought \u2014 this is not going to make many people respect me as a businessperson \u2014 but I bought the Cowboys and they were losing $1 million cash a month, $1 million a month.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-content entry-content\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"after-post-common\" class=\"l-complementary\" role=\"complementary\">\n<aside id=\"custom_html-27\" class=\"widget_text widget widget_custom_html\">\n<div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"l-article__newsletter-trigger\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary: Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Asked Jimmy Hoffa For Loan to Buy Chargers While the Dallas Cowboys\u00a0might be staring down a pretty brutal season in 2025 with&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AMAZING!! 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