Todd Archer
Frisco, Texas – The owner and managing director of Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones, said that a “unhappy” gesture made to the stadium fans on Sunday was “inadvertent”.
Videos on social networks have shown that Jones will quickly flash his middle finger at the end of the 37-22 cowboys victory on New York Jets-after the fourth stroke of Dak Prescott increased the advance to 37-14.
“It was unhappy. It was a kind of exchange with our fans in front of us,” Jones on Tuesday on 105.3 The fan in Dallas on Tuesday. “There was a swarm of cowboys fans in front – not fans of jets, cowboys fans. The whole stadium was overflowing with cowboys enthusiasm and certainly late in the match.
“(The gesture) was inadvertently on my part because it was just after we made our last hit and we were all excited about it. There was no antagonistic problem or something like that. I just put the bad show on the hand.” Thumbs the top “, and by showing essentially our fans because everyone was jumping from top to bottom.”
The NFL did not answer the question of whether Jones could be punished with the League.
Last year, the owner of Carolina Panthers, David Tepper, was sentenced to a fine of $ 300,000 for “unacceptable behavior”, after being taken on video in the process of a drink towards Jacksonville jaguar fans.
In 2009, Bud Adams, owner of the end of Tennessee Titans, was sentenced to a fine of $ 250,000 for driving prejudicial to the League after having made an obscene gesture while celebrating a victory against the Buffalo Bills.
