FRISCO, Texas – On Tuesday, the highly anticipated docuseries "America's Team: The Gambler and his Cowboys" released on Netflix.
The eight-part series directed by Chapman and Maclain Way details stories told and untold of Jerry Jones' purchase of the Cowboys and their rise to prominence in the 1990s.
Cowboys legends Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Emmitt Smith and prominent world figures like former U.S. President George W. Bush and Nike co-founder and former CEO Phil Knight are among those featured to tell the team's story.
Among the topics covered are Jones' purchase of the team, the famous Herschel Walker trade that helped Dallas build the famous "Triplets" of Aikman, Smith and Irvin, three Super Bowl victories in four years, and the tense separation between Jones and Jimmy Johnson.
Jones and his family along with Irvin, Smith and others got together in Hollywood, California for the premiere of the series on August 18. The event featured a blue carpet and time for all parties to reconnect and reminisce on old times.
"It refreshed the memory, I appreciated guys like Michael, Jimmy, Troy, Charles Haley, Deion [Sanders], all those guys, and I can't wait for you to see all of the stuff about Deion," Jones told reporters.
"It's really impressive. For me, really to end up with a story we've had of our success, it was a close call. No matter how you make it, it was really close all the way through."
Amidst all the ups and downs that came in that decade, Jones has enjoyed, and still does, simply being a part of the process.
"I looked at the finish product and looked at some of how we got here, and it wasn't as pretty or it wasn't as thought as I remember," Jones said. "There was some down times here, but I was so proud to get to be a part, and I was so gunned up that first of all I really risked more than anybody should have to get in."
