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Oct 07

Leave Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones alone about his flip phone

The screenshot that launched a Twitter snark-fest.

(Credit: Screenshot by Cork Gaines)

Jerry Jones, billionaire owner of the Dallas Cowboys NFL team, has a flip phone.

This fact came to Twitter’s attention thanks to a screenshot from Sunday’s game posted by user Cork Gaines. It led to a considerable amount of mockery with people questioning why Jones doesn’t use a few of his copious buckaroos to get an iPhone and hire someone to teach him how to use it.

Before we get too deep into this, I should confess I’m not a Cowboys fan. My two favorite teams are the Chicago Bears and whatever team happens to be playing the Cowboys. That’s just the way my football fandom goes. Seeing evidence of Jones with a flip phone should have sent me into paroxysms of snarky joy.

Jerry Jones, owns a team worth $2.3 billion, still uses a flip phone pic.twitter.com/NYalXeopTf

— Cork Gaines (@CorkGaines) October 6, 2013

Instead, I felt defensive on his behalf. He doesn’t need me to stick up for him, but I kept thinking, “Let Jerry Jones have his retro flip phone.” My mother has a flip phone. What does she need with a smartphone when she has a big awesome home computer for answering her e-mails and surfing the Web in com… [Read more]