Editing Jerry Jones (section)

==Business ventures==
According to an interview with Jones on [[HBO]], after graduating from college in 1965, he borrowed a million dollars from [[Jimmy Hoffa]]'s [[Teamsters]] union to open up a string of Shakey's Pizza Parlor restaurants in Missouri.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys/2017/07/27/an-ever-growing-snowball-the-inside-story-of-jerry-jones-taking-the-game-people-he-loves-for-wild-ride-to-hall-of-fame/ | title=An ever growing snowball | date=July 27, 2017 }}</ref> When that venture failed, Jones was given a job at his father's insurance company, Modern Security Life of Springfield, Missouri. He received his master's degree in business in 1970. After several other unsuccessful business ventures (including an attempt, again using Teamsters money, to purchase the [[American Football League]]'s [[San Diego Chargers]] in 1966),<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jerry-jones-asked-hoffas-teamsters-for-a-loan-to-buy-the-chargers-in-1966/ | title=Jerry Jones asked Hoffa's Teamsters for a loan to buy the Chargers in 1966 | date=September 22, 2015 }}</ref> he began an oil and gas exploration business in [[Arkansas]], Jones Oil and Land Lease, which became successful.<ref>[http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/business_politics_60/72_jerry_jones.html "Jerry Jones Sports Biography, Photos & Rise to Success"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140123092701/http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/business_politics_60/72_jerry_jones.html |date=January 23, 2014 }}. AskMen (October 13, 1942). Retrieved on December 21, 2010.</ref> His privately held company currently does natural resource prospecting.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dezember |first=Ryan |title=Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Scores on Billion-Dollar Natural-Gas Gambit |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/dallas-cowboys-owner-scores-on-billion-dollar-natural-gas-gambit-11655870838 |access-date=April 5, 2024 |work=WSJ |date=June 22, 2022}}</ref>

In 2008, Jones formed a partnership with [[Yankee Global Enterprises]] to create [[Legends Hospitality]], a food, beverage, merchandise, retail, and stadium operations corporation serving entertainment venues.<ref>[http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/102108dnbuscowboysventure.12f38f6d8.html "Dallas Cowboys, New York Yankees form joint concessions venture"] ({{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090611163734/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/102108dnbuscowboysventure.12f38f6d8.html |date=June 11, 2009 }}). ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]''.</ref>