Can You Fire Your Favorite Team's Owner?

It's really a fair question isn't it? I was talking to a Cowboys fan and he just asked out of frustration, "Can we fire our owner?" How 'bout 'dem Cowboys?!?!

Owner Jerry Jones fired head coach Wade Phillips less than a week after he said Wade was safe for the season. It's not that Wade didn't deserve to be fired, it's the fact that Jerry has gone on record making ridiculous claims like that which frustrates the fanbase. Fact, Jerry Jones has not won a Super Bowl without talent stocked by Jimmy Johnson. If you're not over 20 years old, there's a strong chance you don't remember the Cowboys last Super Bowl title. 1996 was a long time ago Jerry. But the question "Can we fire our owner" goes beyond Big D.

Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has been throwing money at the 'Skins problem since he bought the team. He's overpaid for names for years and yielded little results. Like Jones, Snyder is a really rich guy that found success in something other than football. Success that made him incredibly wealthy. From what I've found wealthy people usually believe they are the smartest people in the room. I mean they are extremely rich and everyone wants to be rich, so their proverbial mindset, "I must be smart."

The problem with that flawed thinking is just because you have a skill that makes you extremely good at one thing, does not mean your ideas translate into other realms similarly. Do you think an astrophysicists could outcoach Bill Belichick? Not likely. That doesn't mean the astrophysicist isn't brilliant, but football X's and O's is not his speciality. Yet these owners think because they've built an empire in business they should meddle in football affairs. Snyder and Jones have to have the last word on decisions. For better or worse, and it's proven to mostly be for the worst. 

The Redskins and Cowboys have two of the best fan bases in sports. They own one of the marquee rivalries in football. The Redskins are at .500 and have a nice in-house cock fight going on with the latest coaching savior Dan Shannahan, and the latest big name free-agent acquisition Donovan McNabb. Different year same turmoil for the 'Skins under Snyder.

The Redskins are sitting at 500, and after eight games the Cowboys have won a single game. That's what these proud franchises have fallen to. Wait 'til next year, nah. How about wait 'til the owner sales.

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