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Article snippet: Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys’ owner, was told by his fellow owners that his “antics” were damaging the N.F.L. and reflecting “conduct detrimental to the league’s best interests,” another sign that the feud between Jones and his colleagues is not abating. The comments, made in a letter sent to Jones’s lawyer, David Boies, and copied to the rest of the league’s owners, came a day after Jones said that he had no intention of backing down from his efforts to delay a contract extension for Commissioner Roger Goodell. By including an accusation that Jones’s actions amounted to “conduct detrimental to the league,” the owners signaled that they were not ruling out pushing for sanctions against Jones. Since Goodell suspended the Cowboys’ star running back, Ezekiel Elliott, in mid-August, Jones has tried to slow discussions about the commissioner’s new pay package, which the owners on the compensation committee have been working on since May. Jones has said in recent weeks that he has only been trying to increase the transparency of the contract negotiations and give more owners a voice in the process. Jones voted along with every other owner in May to approve an extension, but he has said that much has changed since then and that Goodell’s new contract should reflect these issues, which include the protests during the national anthem at N.F.L. games. But two weeks ago, Jones, a nonvoting member of the compensation committee, escalated the dispute when he threatened to ... Link to the full article to read more