ARLINGTON, Texas -- A significant percentage of the 91,174 fans who
filled AT&T Stadium on Sunday afternoon wore red and cheered for the
San Francisco 49ers, but Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones claimed not to notice the home-field disadvantage. "Listen, I'm interested in the football game and what went on with the game," Jones said after the Cowboys' 28-17 loss
to the 49ers. "It's not good when you don't win -- from any
perspective, marketing or otherwise. I had my eye on those turnovers and
interest on those turnovers. I'm not even sure I know what you are
talking about, to tell you the truth. OK?"
Jones bristled when asked about 49ers fans making up almost half the
crowd. He responded by asking if the inquiring reporter counted the
fans. "B.S.," Jones said when told it looked like the crowd was pretty
evenly split between Cowboys and 49ers fans. "I know you didn't count
them. Anyway, nothing went through my mind. I was looking at the game." According to StubHub, the 49ers-Cowboys season opener is the
highest-selling game of the 2014 season on the secondary market. The
third highest-selling game is the Houston Texans' Oct. 5 trip to AT&T Stadium, the Cowboys' $1.2 billion stadium.
The Cowboys are the top-selling home team, according to StubHub, while the 49ers are the top-selling away team. "In a game like this, or any game, I just pay attention to the
field," Jones said. "I won't get into that until sometime during this
week, but I'll probably get any data that we get on that. But that's not
something that I would really pay a lot of attention to, and the only
thing I'm paying attention to is maybe the crowd noise when we got
possession or we're trying to keep them from making a first down in a
tight situation. ... No, I don't have any knowledge or information about
the ratio of fans."
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