Jones has nobody to blame but himself

In an amusing twist, an NFL owner has been locked out.

Following the Cowboys' 19-13 loss to the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday night, Dallas owner Jerry Jones was "accidentally" - yeah, right - locked out of his team's locker room.

"Jerry Jones just pounded (the) locker room door because no one would let him in," tweeted Matt Barrie of Dallas' NBC affiliate. "It's the angriest I've seen him all year."

Now that's an NFL lockout we can support.

Rumor has it a couple of Cowboys players were supposed to leave a key under the mat for Jones. But, predictably, they lost it.

Jones was eventually granted access to the locker room, where he could've ripped his general manager for compiling another underachieving team if it wasn't himself.

Jones, who made himself GM when he bought the Cowboys in 1989, told NBC's Bob Costas on Sunday that he probably would've fired his GM by now if it was someone else.

"Well, I think so ... because he was there to dismiss," Jones said. "I've done it with coaches and certainly I would have changed a general manager."

Despite the Cowboys (3-5) producing only one playoff win the past 14 seasons, Jones said Tuesday on his twice-weekly radio show that he'll never step down as GM.

He also addressed the comments he made about firing the GM if it was anybody else.

"Under those circumstances, I speculated that I would probably have made a change, but that's not our situation," he said. "To change, I'd have to change myself. People don't do that."

■ CRAZY FROM THE TWEET - Marcus Vick, brother of Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, sent out at least 24 tweets defending his older sibling during Philadelphia's 28-13 loss to New Orleans on "Monday Night Football."

Marcus Vick - who probably hasn't written that much since he signed all those traffic citations at Virginia Tech - ripped the Eagles offensive line for not protecting his brother and the fans for turning against him.

"Please trade my brother. We requesting out of Philly!!!! Please please please ..." he wrote in one tweet.

Here are some others: "I never seen a Qb get hit every time he drop back. Lol crazy!!!"

"All I hear is the fans saying 'bring n Nick Foles' like wtf he gone do behind that O-line?"

"Only reason I said trade was bc I hear all that Nick Foles talk. Honestly who is he? What was his college record at Arizona?"

Michael Vick probably wishes he could trade his brother.

■ INSULTING AD - In ridiculing actors who were injured during "Spider-Man's" run on Broadway, the MSG Network managed to offend members of the theater community and others in promotional posters for the New York Knicks that read, "It's Friday night. You can either see a Broadway harness malfunctioning or you can watch real men fly."

Not exactly. The player featured on the poster is oft-injured Knicks center Amare Stoudemire, who is slated to have knee surgery and expected to miss up to eight weeks.

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