Jones will gobble up Cowboys' good will

Doesn't Jerry Jones remember The White House?
Jones and I are fraternity brothers after all (Kappa Sigma is for life), but apparently he believes that winning Super Bowls requires the same deviant behavior that his Dallas Cowboys practiced during their 1990s dynasty.
Jones' obsession with acquiring Pacman Jones borders on lunacy, a single-minded quest to outbid every team in the league for a man whose past is as troubled as any other player's in recent memory. Ghosts have followed Pacman ever since he was drafted No. 6 overall by the Tennessee Titans in 2005. His selection calls into question everything that Floyd Reese, the Tennessee general manager at the time and current football analyst for ESPN, has ever said. I can't even take the guy seriously when he looks into the camera and tries to criticize a personnel decision made by an NFL team. Reese became one of the biggest jokes in recent league history when he decided to select a player with as checkered a past as Pacman had -- and, like Ebenezer Scrooge, Pacman has only labored upon that chain since.
Pacman wasted just three months after his selection before being arrested on charges of assault and felony vandalism, and so began a disturbing pattern of brushes with the law that continues to this day. Pacman has been cuffed and booked on an array of charges since then that include disorderly conduct, public intoxication, obstruction of justice and marijuana possession. Most disgraceful of his transgressions is his alleged role in a shooting at a Las Vegas nightclub in 2007, an incident that left a bouncer paralyzed from the waist down after Jones and several members of his entourage "made it rain" by tossing thousands of $1 dollar bills around the club's dancers and started a brawl when they attempted to collect the money later in the evening.
Pacman's idiotic behavior was too much for NFL commissioner Roger Goddell, who suspended Pacman for the entire 2007 season. Goddell decided that Pacman's 11 combined arrests and visits to police stations during the previous year was enough to keep Pacman on the sidelines for his own good and Goddell hasn't made the decision to reinstate Pacman just yet for 2008. That hasn't stopped Jones, the maverick Cowboys' owner, who is seeking a compliment to corner Terrance Newman to complete his championship puzzle.
Jones has little regard for character as long as his players perform on the field. His current roster includes Terrell Owens, a man who has accused his previous quarterbacks of not being able to perform because of their sexuality (Jeff Garcia, who Owens labeled as gay) and their softness (Donovan McNabb, who Owens faults for losing Super Bowl XXXIX). Dallas' 1990s championship teams were built on the backs of players like Nate Newton (a marijuana dealer), Mark Tuinei (a heroin abuser) and Michael Irvin (multiple arrests for drug possession), all of whom might have been sidelined by Goddell if they had played in the modern era. Those Cowboys' teams congregated in the Dallas suburbs in a rented bachelor pad called The White House, so named for its stucco walls and luxurious appearance. An unknown amount of debauchery took place inside The White House walls, a series of stories that would have tainted the Cowboys forever had they been leaked at the time. Jones was willing to look past his players' warts as long as they performed on the field, and his desperation to field another title winner appears to be getting in the way of the good judgment that he has shown in recent years.
Acquiring Pacman Jones would be the latest in a stream of questionable decisions that Jones has made since taking charge of the Cowboys in 1989. A failure to win a title after making such a deal would taint Dallas in a way that Cowboys' fans haven't seen since the bad old days. Pacman will digest all of the credibility that Dallas has built up in recent years.