Opinion: Jerry Jones snubbing Jimmy Johnson for Cowboys honor as coach goes to Hall is slap in the face

OFF THE COAST OF ISLAMORADA, Fla. — Jimmy Johnson sure didn’t look or sound like a man with many worries as he stood in the cockpit of his high-speed sport fishing boat this week, hoping to reel in another big one. The depth of the Atlantic Ocean beneath him was more than 600 feet, but with induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame looming for the legendary coach, some matters didn’t seem so deep.

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“Ha!” Johnson blurts from behind the steering wheel of a vessel dubbed “Three Rings." 

Johnson, 78, coached the Dallas Cowboys to back-to-back Super Bowl crowns more than a quarter-century ago, starting from the scratch of a 1-15 season to build the NFL’s “Team of the ‘90s” after winning a college national championship in the late ‘80s at the University of Miami. That got him a ticket to Canton, Ohio, for his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction on Aug. 7.

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