Emmitt on the Brink – Season 2: Week 2

Emmitt on the Brink.

The premise: Coming off a Super Bowl victory, the Patriots open the 2013 season with a blowout win. Unfortunately, they get into trouble for Spygate II. As punishment, Roger Goodell orders the Patriots to fire Bill Belichick and replace him with Emmitt Smith.

This is a weekly feature that will take a newspaper reporter’s perspective and follow the 2013 New England Patriots as they traverse the 2013 NFL season under Emmitt’s guidance. This page will be updated every Thursday during the real 2008 NFL season.

Of course, you can always look at all of Emmitt’s quotes in the Emmitt Smith Anthology.

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JERRY JONES MAKES SURPRISING ANNOUNCEMENT AT HIS WEDDING

By Alex Rodriguez, Special to the NFL Bible Network
Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014

Jerry Jones has been known to go a little overboard as owner of the Dallas Cowboys. When he built the largest JumboTron in the world and installed it in Cowboys Stadium in 2009, people thought he was nuts. Well, if that was nuts, Jones might have to be sent off to a mental institution this time.

Hundreds gathered at Jones’ wedding in Dallas on Saturday afternoon. Emmitt, who was fortunately enough to be in town for the Cowboys-Patriots game on Monday night, was Jones’ best man. The groomsmen were Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Wade Phillips and Nate Newton. Of course, all eyes were on Jones’ bride to be, Miles Austin.

At the altar, Jones and Austin exchanged wedding vows.

Jones told Austin, “You’re the greatest receiver of all the time. I love the way you play. You are very fast and you have great hands. You’re so much better than Terrell Owens.”

Austin grimaced and read off a piece of paper, “Thank you, Jerry for those kind words, and thank you for this $500 million wedding signing bonus you’ve given me. I will never forget this day.”

As tears poured out of Jones’ eyes, the Cowboys owner turned to the crowd and made his surprising announcement: “I am renaming Cowboys Stadium! It will now be called Miles Austin-Jones Stadium!”

As the wedding guests gasped, Jones made an even more shocking proclamation: “I am getting rid of the JumboTron! In its place, will be an even larger JumboTron – the Miles Austin-Jones JumboTron! It will be three times the size of the old JumboTron!”

Jones wiped the tears from his eyes and turned to Austin.

“This is my wedding gift to you, Miles Austin. You deserve it for being the greatest receiver who has ever lived!”

Jones and Austin were pronounced owner and receiver, and all of the guests roared in approval.

At the wedding reception, we caught up with Emmitt and the groomsmen to ask them what they thought about the wedding and the Miles Austin-Jones JumboTron.

“I can’t stop crying,” Irvin said. “Not because of the wedding, but because Jerry once told me that I was the best receiver who has ever lived. Now he’s moved on without me.”

Unfortunately, Phillips was not available for comment. He spent the duration of the wedding trying to convince the guests that Austin was nothing but a gold-digger. Predictably, no one listened to the man known by many as Mr. Turkey Neck.

Nate Newton, who was selling what looked like spinach to some of the kids at the reception, wished the two all the luck in the world.

“I remember the first time Jerry saw Miles,” Newton recalled. “It was love at first sight for Jerry. Miles was engaged to a fat woman working the docks of the stadium. Come to think of it, they were engaged for years, but they never got married for some reason. Maybe it’s because the fat woman treated Miles poorly. Once she left him at a minor-league hockey game up in Scranton. Or maybe it’s because Miles knew that Jerry would give him a huge wedding signing bonus. In the end, love and money won out.”

Troy Aikman and Emmitt, meanwhile, were the two guests who weren’t choked up with emotion.

“That’s right, Joe,” Aikman said. “This is a great day to have a wedding. What a great moment for Jerry and Miles, and the entire Dallas Cowboys organization. That’s absolutely right, Joe.”

Emmitt mulled over Jones’ decision to make him the best man.

“I am not just proud, I am very, very proudly,” Emmitt said. “Jerry Jones make me the best man. I do not know how many people live in this planet, maybe 2 million or 3 billion or maybe even 4… uhh… the number that come after billion, I forget, maybe gazillion. But the fact of the manner is, he says I am best man out of all the people living in the planet.”

Emmitt smiled and looked pleased with himself.

“Before the sun downed on this day, I only consider myself the head coach of the New Zealand Patriots. Now I know that I am the head coach of the New Zealand Patriots, I am also the best of all menkind in this planet, and maybe even in this country.”