Cowboys to add Jimmy Johnson to ring of honor on Dec. 30

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Cowboys to add Jimmy Johnson to ring of honor on Dec. 30​

Thirty years after he coached the Dallas Cowboys, Jimmy Johnson is going into the team's ring of honor. Owner and general manager Jerry Jones made the announcement prior to Sunday's game against the Carolina Panthers after Johnson spent time in the locker room. The halftime induction will take place at AT&T Stadium on Dec. 30 against the Detroit Lions. As the years passed, Johnson's exclusion became as big of a story as those who were put in, including DeMarcus Ware earlier this season.

The Cowboys went 1-15 in Johnson's first season but with the help of the Herschel Walker trade to the Minnesota Vikings, Dallas was able to form a team that became the first to win three Super Bowls in a four-year span. After Johnson left, Jones hired Barry Switzer as head coach and, after making it to the 1994 NFC Championship Game, the Cowboys won Super Bowl XXX the next season. Johnson went 44-36 as Cowboys head coach, but posted a 7-1 postseason record. In 1990, he was named the NFL's Coach of the Year. He later would coach the Miami Dolphins from 1996 to 1999, posting a 36-28 record, but he never got back to a Super Bowl.

 

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Jimmy Johnson Pro Football Reference
Coaching History, Coaching Results, Team's Rank.

Johnson served five seasons with the Cowboys and guided the team to two Super Bowl championships. Johnson also coached the Miami Dolphins for four seasons and led the club to the playoffs in all but his first year on the job. He oversaw the fastest turnaround in NFL history, as the Cowboys went from being a 1-15 outfit in 1989 to back-to-back Super Bowl champions just three years later in the 1992 season.

Cowboys Super Bowls:
1996: Dallas Cowboys (27) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (17)
1994: Dallas Cowboys (30) vs. Buffalo Bills (13)
1993: Dallas Cowboys (52) vs. Buffalo Bills (17)
1979: Dallas Cowboys (31) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (35)
1978: Dallas Cowboys (27) vs. Denver Broncos (10)
1976: Dallas Cowboys (17) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (21)
1972: Dallas Cowboys (24) vs. Miami Dolphins (3)
1971: Dallas Cowboys (13) vs. Indianapolis Colts (16)

 

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Jimmy Johnson on Jerry Jones putting him in Ring of Honor: We’re past who gets credit​

Jimmy Johnson went into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the Class of 2020. With the ultimate honor to Johnson’s name, some wondered whether the former Cowboys head coach even cared whether he went into the team’s Ring of Honor. He did and does. Johnson will take his long-awaited, and as Jerry Jones himself said, “rightful place,” on the AT&T Stadium facade next to Darren Woodson at halftime of Saturday night’s game between the Cowboys and Lions. Jones has been roundly and rightfully criticized for waiting so long to put Johnson in the team’s Ring of Honor, but the Cowboys owner said it always was a matter of when, not if. Jones said former team president Tex Schramm, who himself is in the Ring of Honor, told Jones after Jones bought the team that the Ring of Honor needs to be exclusive. Johnson will become the 24th member of the Ring of Honor, the fourth non-player. Johnson won back-to-back Super Bowls in the 1992 and 1993 seasons during his five-year tenure with the Cowboys. The relationship, which dated to the men’s playing days together at Arkansas, had a contentious ending before the 1994 season. On Nov. 19, Jones announced before Dallas’ game against the Panthers in Charlotte that Johnson would go into the Ring of Honor on Dec. 30.

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