Netflix to Pay $50 Million for Dallas Cowboys Owner Docuseries
Owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, Jerry Jones will be the central character of the series, which will relive his glory years in the 90s.
The Dallas Cowboys haven’t won a Super Bowl since the 1995 season. In fact, that was the last year (January 1996) that ”America’s Team” played in an NFC Championship.
It’s been 27 long years since that last title for Dallas, who was the dynasty of the 1990s winning three Super Bowls. The first Super Bowl ring in that era came just three years after Jerry Jones bought the franchise for $140 million. dollars.
Despite the failures on the field in recent years, the value of the Cowboys has multiplied and today the Texan franchise is valued -according to the most recent list of Forbes magazine- at $8 billion making it the most valuable team in the entire world.
Netflix wants a Jerry docuseries
Netflix is close to acquiring the rights to make a new docuseries that will focus on the owner of the Cowboys, Jerry Jones, and is planning on paying $50 million dollars for the rights according to Puck News.
The deal has not been finalized, but, the report adds, Netflix beat out ESPN for the docuseries, which will relive Jones’ glory years with the Cowboys. In that era Dallas became one of the most dominant dynasties in NFL history.
The series will “follow Jones’ remarkable rise from the son of an Arkansas community store owner to one of the most innovative and influential leaders” in American sports.
It will also feature never-before-seen interviews with three of the Cowboys’ most iconic players: quarterback Troy Aikman, wide receiver Michael Irvin and running back Emmitt Smith. .
There is currently no release date scheduled and it’s still unknown how many episodes this docuseries will have. You can bet when it comes out, Cowboy fans and NFL fans alike will be anxiously awaiting the debut.