Jerry Jones tanks again

I’m trying to root for the Dallas Cowboys, but owner Jerry Jones is making it hard.

If you’re from Southeast Texas, you have to have a soft spot in your heart for new head coach and former PN-G Indian Wade Phillips. Wade is one of the good guys. His dad Bum is a legend.

But Tank Johnson? Did the Cowboys have to be the team that couldn’t wait to sign the thug kicked off the Chicago Bears?

Well, since the Cowboys couldn’t wait to sign Terrell Owens, the jerk kicked off the Philadelphia Eagles, I guess no one should be surprised.

Is Pacman Jones, the thug suspended from the Tennessee Titans next? Why not. He shares the same last name and the same contempt for high standards as the Cowboys’ owner.

Tank Johnson’s agent said it all when he noted, “For a lot of reasons, he really just felt the Cowboys were the right fit.”

You'd better believe Tank was a good fit with ol’ Jerry. They share a lot in common — win at all costs on the field, do what you want off the field.

If somebody gets hurt — or killed, like Tank Johnson’s former “bodyguard” at a strip club shooting — well, heck, that’s the way the ball bounces sometimes.

Being a real role model? Doing the right thing even if it’s the hard thing? Don’t make them laugh. That’s for Boy Scouts and losers in their book.

And to think that uber-straight arrows Roger Staubach and Tom Landry used to represent the team’s image.

The Cowboys have come a long way since those days — a long way down.