Dallas allows fans to rub elbows with players in a way not common among the 31 other teams. Some players believe tours get in the way of championship-building.
Kalyn Kahler reports on former Cowboys players not liking that Dallas allows practice facility tours while the team is using it. ' proudest achievements to a group of 20-plus people crowded in front of him, many wearing a mix of Cowboys jerseys. At the other end of the hallway, less than a football field away, are the Cowboys' position meeting rooms. A player opens a door and walks out.
And Dallas' advertising is accurate. On the Thursday before the Lions game, Prescott walks about 3 feet away from the 10 a.m. tour group gathered in a hallway near the Cowboys' locker room."It's gold when those players go through our complex out there and see fans," Jerry Jones told ESPN. On this particular Friday, there are seven 20-person tours available for individual ticket purchase, as well as additional group tours, like those for corporate outings, that aren't listed on the Cowboys' website. Tour groups cross paths in the building, and on Saturdays before home games, they're scheduled every 20 minutes from 12:40 to 4:20. The Cowboys say most weekend tours, which are expanded from the weekday versions to accommodate 30 people, sell out.
"We have 24/7 access to the facility, and it should be a place of solitude," said a recent former player who requested anonymity to discuss the topic freely."I come in for extra work at night, to use the hot and cold tub, and there's fans walking through, poking out at you." A few minutes later, the tour guide pauses his speech while the group is stopped at the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders exhibit."Make way for this gentleman, please." The fans back up, and Parsons slowly hobbles past them."That looks like it's going to be a few more weeks until he can play again," another says.
He traces that philosophy back to his days as a guard at Arkansas, where he says the team often practiced in front of hundreds of fans sitting close by on a grassy knoll."It made me feel like I was playing in a bowl game every day," he says."It made me want to just exceed what I normally would have because of all of that close-in scrutiny. I didn't want to get my butt beat in a drill.
When asked what is different about Dallas' team culture, Fowler, along with Kearse, were two of three Cowboys players from the 2023 roster who independently cited the tours as a defining feature. Kearse played for the Lions and Vikings before the Cowboys. He says Dallas is a great organization that changed his life for the better, but a normal work day there is unlike any he experienced elsewhere.
"The bottom line is that ever since we've been involved and been doing it, for the last 20 years, we're the sixth-winningest team in the NFL ," Jones says."Since 2016 , we're the fourth-winningest team in the NFL ." Jones doesn't put much stock in the opinions of the former players who question the tours."That's like firing your accountant, or getting a divorce," he says."You always hear it from the disgruntled people that aren't there anymore.""I'd love to see cameras in the tour going to 20 million people while the people were making the tours and hearing the same thing," Jones says.
By now, Dallas coaches know better than to put any game-planning content on the screens of unattended meeting rooms, as fans could enter at any point. Jerry Jones: 'Since the day I walked through the door, I have been trying to get fans every place I could get them.' is frustrated. Because Detroit didn't just win, the Lions showboated as they beat up on the Cowboys. Everything they did on offense worked. The backup quarterback came in with eight minutes left in the fourth quarter with a 47-9 lead, and his first play was a 19-yard pass.
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