Dallas Cowboys Party House From Scandal to Perspective

Dan Riley revisits the Dallas Cowboys’ wild 1990s “party house” era and how those off-field antics help explain Jerry Jones’s latest controversy.


In this commentary, Dan Riley reflects on the Dallas Cowboys party house era and the team’s colorful past. Back in the 1990s, several Cowboys players rented a mansion near their practice facility — a home that quickly gained fame as the team’s “party house.”
Though Jerry Jones’s recent obscene hand gesture can’t be excused, those wild days of the past put today’s events into perspective. The Cowboys have long been a team of bold moves and questionable choices — and, in context, one impulsive gesture feels more like a reminder than a scandal.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Riley for Sports Talk and Passionate World
Internet Radio. This week, Jerry Jones was caught giving opposing
fans the finger after Dallas won their last game. Clearly
not his best moment, but it's not even the most
obscene moment in the history of the Dallas Cowboys franchise.

(00:24):
While you can never excuse what Jerry Jones got caught doing,
stuff a little more messed up than that has happened
in Dallas over the last thirty thirty five years while
I was only five. While this event I'm about to
discuss in this episode happened, you can imagine it was

(00:48):
a really big deal at the time, and it was
all over ESPN, every newspaper you think it, people in
someone in media with covering this event. I'm talking about
what's called the Dallas Cowboys White House scandal. We shouldn't

(01:12):
be surprised athletes, especially NFL players, like to party in football, specifically,
the game's dangers in stakes mean guys need to find
an escape from the game every once in a while.
The problem, of course, is that things can get out

(01:36):
of control, like what happened in Minnesota with what's called
the Minnesota Vikings. Love Boat Scandal. As far as what's
called the White House scandal in Dallas, I'm talking about
the kind of partying you saw in the film Any

(01:56):
Given Sunday halfway through the movie. Now, when I say
the White House, I'm not referring to the big mansion
on sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue. I'm referring to a mansion
right next to the Dallas Cowboys practice field where the

(02:18):
guys on that team would have crazy parties. It had
been bought by a player on the team named Alvin Harper,
who pulled together some of his teammates' money and purchased
this thing so he and his teammates would be able
to go and chill out and party without the public knowing.

(02:45):
It may have been idiotic last week for Jerry Jones
to flip fans off, but it was arguably more idiotic
for players on the Dallas Cowboys of the nineteen nineties
to take part in illegal activities at a party right
next to the practice field and expect no attention from

(03:07):
the law or the media. A lot of illegal stuff,
like drug use was going on at this party pad
the Cowboys had, namely cocaine use, which is yep. Why
they called it the White House after a certain illegal

(03:30):
white powder. Now, at the time after the scandal broke,
after the media revealed that yes, the Dallas Cowboys had
a party pad right next to the practice field, and

(03:51):
yes drug parties were being held there, an anonymous source
told a newspaper at the time, I've looked this up.
An anonymous source at that time, shortly after the scandal
broke told a newspaper that quote, half a dozen teams

(04:12):
in the NFL had this kind of arrangement. Given this
was a decade and a half before smartphones, meaning you
had a lot less of a chance of being exposed.
The NFL should be grateful partying like this wasn't more
widespread in the league. In fact, I'm surprised most guys

(04:35):
in the league were smart enough not to do this.
In the end, Jerry Jones will be punished, whether it's
good enough for other people or not, and the Dallas
Cowboys at the nineteen nineties were punished for their escapades

(04:56):
at their party pad. Guys were suspended, convicted in core.
It was embarrassing for the Dallas Cowboys, and it's hard
to tell if that scandal was the beginning of the end.
But as indefensible as Jerry Jones flipping people off is

(05:20):
and it is. I'll always remember that people in the
Dallas Cowboys organization have given that team a lot worse press,
a lot worse by today, by the nineteen nineties standards.

(05:43):
Today's Dallas Cowboys and the NFL as a whole are
a lot more tame than when I was in elementary school.
This is Dan Riley for Sports Talk. Thank you so
much for tuning in and so long