Pacman Jones says he played through a broken neck on a $2,900,000 guaranteed Cowboys deal, then asked Jerry Jones to keep the injury private when he cut him
“I broke my neck when I played with the Cowboys. It happened to Pittsburgh game in Pittsburgh. Anyway, make a long story short, I end up coming back in the game, played the whole game, and Jerry brought me out.”
“He’s like, ‘Look, man, like I got to cut you, but I really don’t want to cut you.’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’ I’m like, ‘You cut me?’ He had already gave me $2.9 million contract that was all guaranteed. I’m like, ‘You cut me?’”
“He’s like, ‘I got to, man. Like, I want you to take care of your body.’ Boom, boom.”
“I’m like, ‘Look, if you cut me, there’s two things I need you to do. Always take care of me and don’t tell nobody that my neck hurt.’”
“He did exactly that, bro. Like, what people didn’t know, I was paralyzed that game in Pittsburgh and he never told nobody. I sat out two years, did the rehab and my sh*t was still f*cked up. I still had, like, tingling down my arms and everything.”