Jimmy Johnson has hilarious response to Jerry Jones’ disrespect

The saga of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones continuing to disrespect his former coach Jimmy Johnson and refusing to put him in the Cowboys Ring of Honor continues.

In case you’ve missed out, the beloved former Cowboys coach has already been added to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, yet his former boss doesn’t think a gold jacket nor two back-to-back Super Bowl wins is good enough to put him in the franchise’s elite club.

A year ago, when Jones was asked about why Johnson wasn’t in the Ring of Honor during the Hall of Fame induction coverage, the GM (on national television, by the way) promised his former coach that he would be added. It has been over 365 days since that moment, and nothing has changed.

To make matters worse, whenever Jones gets approached about the matter, he always seems to have some kind of ridiculous excuse or explanation as to why the move hasn’t happened. Something along the lines of, “I don’t have time” or “I’m not thinking about that.”

The latest was quite a snooty and unnecessarily disrespectful quote about the Hall of Fame coach. NBCDFW’s Newy Scruggs called out the Cowboys GM in a recent interview, saying that Jones was being “petty” (which is true). Here was Jones’s response:

"“It’s B.S. for anybody to be making anything [of that]. I’ve said I’m going to put him in. Now, when I put him in and the circumstances and what I do with that: there’s a lot more than Jimmy to think about here, and I’ve got a lot of other lives out here that have laid a lot on the line on the field that need to be in that Ring of Honor as well. And so how I do that, what I do it with, I get to make that decision, and it isn’t- at the end of the day- all tailored around whether Jimmy is sniveling or not.”"

Sniveling?! For reference, the Oxford dictionary defines the said term as “the action of crying and sniffing in a feeble or fretful way.” I don’t think Johnson is doing either of those things. It certainly does it seem like it in his lighthearted and hilarious response below.

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Jimmy Johnson has a hilarious response to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones saying he is “sniveling” over Ring of Honor dispute

The reality is that people do care. They care because Johnson brought hope and success to this franchise. He does deserve to be in that Ring and the fact that he isn’t yet is embarrassing.

But, in being the bigger person, Johnson had an excellent response when asked about it on the “Dan Le Batard Show.”

Le Batard reads him the quote from Jones and the former coach immediately laughs out loud.

“I had to look that word up in the dictionary! I don’t know that I’ve ever sniveled. Do you ever remember me sniveling?” Johnson responds while chuckling.

It’s nice that Johnson is above the pettiness that Jones is displaying and can laugh about the absurdity. Cowboys fans certainly don’t think the ridiculousness is all that funny. Give the man what he deserves, Jerry!