"Why tf didn’t he step down?”: NFL world reacts to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealing decade-long cancer battle

NFL: Dallas Cowboys Training Camp - Source: Imagn
NFL: Dallas Cowboys Training Camp - Source: Imagn

In an episode of “America’s Team: The Gamble and His Cowboys,” Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones revealed that he battled cancer for over a decade. The billionaire team owner was diagnosed in 2010 with stage 4 melanoma. Jones underwent four surgeries to beat the disease.

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Fans on X questioned why Jones continued to run the team while he was going through treatment.

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“WHY TF DIDNT HE STEP DOWN?!?!?!?,” wondered one fan.
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Jones purchased the Dallas Cowboys in 1989 for $40 million, building a Super Bowl-winning franchise a few years later. However, they have not made the big game since they last won it in the 1995 campaign, which was also the last time they made it to the NFC Championship Game.

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After being eliminated in the Wild Card round of the 2023 playoffs, Jones said he wanted to experience another Super Bowl triumph during his lifetime. Unfortunately for him, last season didn’t pan out as he’d hoped, with the Cowboys missing the playoffs.

An experimental drug saved Jerry Jones’ life

When Jones was given the cancer diagnosis, the prognosis wasn’t great. In an interview with the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday, Jones said an experimental drug was responsible for his recovery.

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“I was saved by a fabulous treatment and great doctors and a real miracle [drug] called PD-1 [therapy], Jones said. “I went into trials for that PD-1, and it has been one of the great medicines. I now have no tumors."

Jones underwent two lung surgeries and two lymph node surgeries over the next 10 years. Stage 4 melanoma means that the skin cancer has metastasized and spread to other parts of the body.

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PD-1 therapy, according to the American Cancer Society, helps the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells.

Advanced cases of the disease have about a five-year survival rate of 50%, with some longer and some with no signs of the cancer at all after treatment. MD Anderson, where the Cowboys owner was treated, is world-renowned for its facilities and clinical trials, many of which have been successful.

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Edited by Joel Lefevre
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