Cowboys owner Jerry Jones admitted he didn’t know the tumors he had over a decade ago were actually terminal. Jones eventually tried an experimental drug that helped cure him of any cancer and that has kept him healthy since. Jones, 82, heads into the 2025 season with the Cowboys looking to return to the playoffs […]
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones admitted he didn’t know the tumors he had over a decade ago were actually terminal. Jones eventually tried an experimental drug that helped cure him of any cancer and that has kept him healthy since.
Jones, 82, heads into the 2025 season with the Cowboys looking to return to the playoffs and make a run. Dallas is searching for their first Super Bowl title since Super Bowl XXX from the 1995-96 season.
Per the report, Jones was diagnosed in 2010 and then he began treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Over the course of the last decade-plus, he had four surgeries: two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries.
“I just really didn’t even recognize that it was terminal,” Jones said on Fox and Friends. “And I listened to some good advice. I had some great doctors, really, all over this country, but in doing so, I tried something very experimental. And the people down at MD Anderson, I had a great doctor in Little Rock, Arkansas, and we got involved in a drug called PD 1, and it was experimental. It was very, very effective. I had several tumors at that time. They’re all gone. Now, it’s 15 years later, and there are just no tumors and haven’t had (them) for many years.”
Right now, Jones has a different battle on his hands. Right now, it’s off the field with star pass rusher Micah Parsons, amid a contract dispute. Jones actually claimed that the Cowboys are going to have Parsons for three more years “ no matter what.”
“Other than I, other than me, other than an assignee of mine — any talk of trading is BS,” Jones told Stephen A. Smith. “There’s nothing to it. It’s just nothing to it.”
That conversation led Smith to ask Jones how he views Parsons. Smith called the All-Pro linebacker “the face of the (Dallas Cowboys) franchise.”
“I’m glad you recognize that and we’ve got him for three years no matter what,” Jones said definitively.
Smith then asked Jones how he would handle it if another NFL team offered the Cowboys the moon — or more likely another All-Pro player and multiple first-round draft picks — in a trade for Parsons. To which the longtime Cowboys owner once again affirmed Parsons’ status in Dallas for the foreseeable future.
“He’s the best player … (and) we’ve got him,” Jones said. “And we’ve got him for three more years. And he’ll play a lot of games (for the Dallas Cowboys). … Just know this, … since you think so much of him, please say it often, because we do have him, and we’re proud to have him.”
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