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Jerry Jones was rooting for rival team, the Eagles, during Super Bowl

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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealed he was pulling for the 
Philadelphia Eagles to win Super Bowl LII over the New England 
Patriots despite the two teams’ rivalry.

Jones told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram the Eagles’ Super Bowl 
victory puts some added pressure on the Cowboys. The two teams 
are in the same division.

"I think it raises the bar. I think it puts pressure on the 
Cowboys," Jones said. "They've took it down to the bone and 
brought it back up and have a world championship and we've been 
doing the same thing. Where is ours? That's fair. That's fair."

The Cowboys have not won a Super Bowl championship since 1995.

Jones said despite the rivalry the Cowboys and Eagles have, he 
was hoping they would win the game.

"As much as we have the rivalry that we have, and as frustrating 
as it was for the Cowboys not to be playing, as much as all of 
that, I was proud of [the Eagles], given that narrow set of 
circumstances, could root for them," Jones said. "That takes it 
right down to just absolutely no choice, you either do or you 
die. And I want to go again."

The Cowboys had high expectations going into the 2017 season but 
star quarterback Dak Prescott did not play as well as 2016 and 
star running back Ezekiel Elliott was suspended for six games 
over domestic violation allegations. Jones worked tirelessly to 
overturn the decision but the NFL ruled the decision stood.

Jones gave the Eagles credit for winning despite being without 
their star quarterback Carson Wentz.

"They didn't have a quarterback either, and they got one, and 
then they lost him and they got one," Jones said. "You didn't 
have Zeke [Ezekiel Elliott], so good excuse, but they didn't 
have a lot of their players. So just the fact that they did it 
the way they did it, really for me it sure eliminates one of the 
real excuses. You can say that you just can't have the kind of 
depth, but they didn't have necessarily that kind of depth but 
they had enough that they shifted some of the ability of the 
team to execute their parts where they had their regulars, and 
we didn't do that.”

Jones recently made headlines after it was reported last week 
that the NFL was exploring options to get more than $2 million 
in reimbursement for legal fees from Jones over his threat to 
derail NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s contract extension. He 
also supported Elliott’s two-month legal battle to avoid the 
suspension.

Dallas News reported Jones will meet with Goodell Monday in an 
attempt to appeal to the NFL commissioner in order to drop the 
legal fees.

"I think I'm going to be pretty limited in my comments because 
of the pending hearing that we have," Jones said. "But a hearing 
before the Commissioner is like a courtroom. You separate the 
wheat from the chaff, and you get right into the facts as they 
are, and I welcome that.

"Looking forward to my time with him regarding both the issues 
of how we were involved or not involved in the Ezekiel Elliott 
issue as well as the issue of what we did or didn't do relative 
to his contract negotiation. Those will be the subject areas, 
but the key thing is it's really factual...you...address the 
facts. I know he wants to know that, and I want him to know what 
the facts are."

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