America’s Hottest New Sports Docuseries
We’ll see what angle this series takes on Dallas…
The Dallas Cowboys haven’t dominated the NFL playoffs for decades, but they’re still top of the pack in franchise value at over $10 billion. That’s why owner Jerry Jones’ net worth is something to behold, even if his team hasn’t been to an NFC Championship Game since the 1995 season.
The Cowboys still generate a lot of NFL news and TV ratings, and they’re hoping that continues with a new Netflix docuseries called America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys that will follow over the course of its 10 episodes the way Jones bought the team in 1989 and turned it into a 3-time Super Bowl champion and the most valuable franchise in sports.
The series promises first-hand interviews with Jones and some of the most popular Cowboys, including Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin, and Deion Sanders. NFL rumors suggest there will also be appearances from notable fans like former president George W. Bush and Nike founder Phil Knight. The series also promises never-before-seen footage from Dallas Cowboys games and seasons.
All 10 episodes will be available to stream on Netflix on August 19, 2025.
The definitive story of Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys.
America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys premieres August 19. pic.twitter.com/8OhIvfV2UN
— Netflix (@netflix) June 11, 2025
What I’d Like to See from America’s Team
You can trace the explosion of the ‘docuseries’ back to 2020 when bored humans during COVID consumed the ridiculousness of Netflix’s Tiger King and longed for the sports nostalgia packed into The Last Dance with Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Bulls, the latter showing the great potential for the format to tell sports stories in detail.
The Patriots recently had a long docuseries on Apple TV+ (The Dynasty), but that was a missed opportunity as it took a lot of shots at coach Bill Belichick in an effort to make owner Robert Kraft and quarterback Tom Brady look better through the team’s various scandals and eventual decline.
We’ll see what angle this series takes on Dallas, but with Jones’ legacy at the forefront, you have to expect it’s going to paint things in a very positive light for him and the shrewd business moves he had to make, including firing legendary coach Tom Landry when he bought the team, and the way things ended with coach Jimmy Johnson after the Cowboys repeated as champions in 1993.
But I feel like a lot of these Dallas stories have been covered over the years in various NFL Films productions like America’s Game, celebrating the Super Bowl seasons, or A Football Life episodes for Aikman, Irvin, and Emmitt. Those “glory hole days” of the 90s, as Jones refers to them, should make up a lot of the running time. Actually, can we get a segment where he explains his definition of “glory hole” for the record?
The Cowboys in the playoffs is a step towards Jerry Jones being back in his glory hole days. pic.twitter.com/mJEleGDauq
— Bootleg Fantasy Football (@BootlegFantasy) January 17, 2023
But I’m actually more interested in seeing if Jones gives any personal thoughts about the team’s recent failures to advance further in the playoffs despite so many high expectations, and where he sees the NFL going as a business and sport as he looks to turn 83 this October.
How much self-reflection and personal accountability will we see from Jones? We’ll find out in August, but if his acting in the series Landman is any indication, putting him behind the camera is one of the smartest things this series could give us.
A POWERFUL message about family
Landman
Jerry Jones pic.twitter.com/nozKjYO1My
— Paul Æ Blundell (@PAUL__BLUNDELL) April 3, 2025
How about their acting skills?
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