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Head Cowboy A look at Jerry Jones' 20 years as owner of the Dallas Cowboys. more photos

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Then Staubach dropped the hammer, the indisputable fact that overwhelms every love-him-or-hate-him debate — those three Super Bowls.

New England is the only club to receive as many Lombardi trophies in the past 20 years. Heck, in the 43-year history of Super Bowls, only the Pittsburgh Steelers and San Francisco 49ers have won more than the three Dallas has earned on Jones' watch.

(It helps that Jones inherited Michael Irvin, was able to spend his first-ever draft pick on Troy Aikman and that the Minnesota Vikings gave up a stack of players and draft picks for Herschel Walker, commodities the Cowboys used to land Emmitt Smith and Darren Woodson. Aikman and Irvin already are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Smith, the NFL's career rushing leader, likely will join them when he becomes eligible next year. Woodson, meanwhile, retired with the most tackles in team history.)

Now Jones is driven by the challenge of winning with a new set of players, a group without Johnson's fingerprints and, as the years go by, without Bill Parcells able to soak up too much credit.

As this 20-year anniversary approached, Jones was far more interested in looking forward than back. Yet last week he gave a few thoughts about the road he's been down.

"It is beyond anything I could've ever imagined to be a part of the Cowboys and the NFL and sports for 20 years. I wouldn't trade anything for any part of it," he said. "From that standpoint, I feel fortunate. I couldn't have dreamed it would be as challenging, that it would be as rewarding."

Asked for any regrets, he said, "The positives far outweigh the negatives that I can think of."

But as soon as those words came out, Jones thought of something.

"I would have liked to have won more Super Bowls," he said. "I really would have liked to have won more Super Bowls.

"Three is not enough."

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