No Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor Entries Again This Year

Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones surprisingly announced this week that there wouldn’t be any Ring of Honor inductees again this year. You would have thought given the Cowboys much anticipated move into their new palace Cowboys Stadium, at a cost of over $1 billion, that at least one new franchise great would grace the ring this upcoming season. In fact since the Cowboys inducted Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, and Michael Irvin (The Triplets) in 2005 there have not been any new Cowboys enshrined.  The Ring of Honor was first created in 1975 as a ring inside the former Cowboys’ home Texas Stadium to honor past franchise greats. Pro Football Hall of Famer Bob Lilly was the first Cowboy awarded with the Ring of Honor distinction in November 1975.  There are currently 17 members of Ring of Honor, but I thought given the Cowboys national persona and former title of “America’s Team” that more players would have received the honor.  In the past, Ring of ... (link)