Jerry Jones, 1990s Cowboys getting a Netflix docuseries

Netflix’s upcoming docuseries on Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s has the potential to be great as long as the NFL doesn’t get in the way.

Per Sports Business Journal, the series was pitched as something akin to “The Last Dance,” which chronicled the rise of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, also during the 1990s.

If it follows the same blueprint, the series on the Cowboys will feature some great archival footage, cool needle drops and plenty of meme-able moments. It will also be a bit of a puff piece.

The series will be produced in part by NFL Films, which should give us an idea that we shouldn’t expect a hard-hitting exposé.

Famed documentarian Ken Burns was critical of “The Last Dance,” according to Esquire, “Mostly, because Jordan’s production company, Jump 23, [was] involved with the project.”

“If you are there influencing the very fact of it getting made, it means that certain aspects that you don’t necessarily want in aren’t going to be in, period,” Burns said.

The same logic applies to the Cowboys, with the NFL likely only wanting there to be mention of the team’s visits to the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and not 115 Dorsett Dr.

The 1990s Cowboys had their own bachelor pad that apparently looked like a scene out of “Caligula,” which they called “The White House” because of the level of secrecy surrounding it.

Wide receiver Michael Irvin’s longtime personal assistant, Anthony “Paco” Montoya, recalled: 

“Nobody partied like them. Fights. Women. Drinking. Orgies. I’ll just say this: If there would have been smartphones and social media back then, the Cowboys wouldn’t have been able to field a team come Sunday.”

Besides that, will there be more than a passing mention of Jimmy Johnson’s bullying tactics as described by Jeff Pearlman in “Boys Will Be Boys: Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty”?

After describing an incident when Johnson angrily confronted backup center Frank Cornish on the team plane, Cornish said, “He never messed with the bread-and-butter guys, because he was a bully. Bullies only pick on the guys they can mess with.”

The Cowboys of the 1990s offer plenty of explosive storylines ripe for a documentary. Unfortunately, we probably won’t get the full story. Instead, we’ll get the one the NFL wants to tell.