Pacman Jones may still have to explain himself to the National Football League after escaping team sanctions for a tussle with his bodyguard, the Dallas Cowboys owner said.
Police were called to a Dallas Hotel on Monday when the 26- year-old cornerback and a member of his security entourage got into a disagreement in the men’s room, Jerry Jones said. No charges were filed against either man and the player will start tomorrow’s game at the Arizona Cardinals.
“Knowing the facts, we don’t have discipline in mind,” the Cowboys owner said on Wednesday in a televised news conference. “They were literally kidding, probably being uncomplimentary. Then it went over the edge.”
Jones missed the 2007 season for violating league rules. In December, he pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct after being ejected from a Las Vegas strip club in February last year, shortly before a triple shooting. The Cowboys owner said he’s kept the player on a “tight leash” since NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reinstated him on Aug. 28.
The altercation wasn’t a result of “over-drinking,” said the team owner, who had given Jones permission to attend the “exclusive, limited invitation” event.
The league, meanwhile, is taking the incident “seriously,” the Cowboys owner said.
He wasn’t sure when a decision might come from the commissioner.
The Cowboys acquired Jones’ rights on April 23 from the Tennessee Titans, where he played his first two NFL seasons. He received the 16-game ban in April last year for conduct detrimental to the league after his fifth arrest in less than two years.
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