Jerry Jones responds to controversial 1957 photo

A report surfaced earlier this week from The Washington Post that shows current Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones photographed amongst a group of students who were attempting to block the desegregation of North Little Rock High School in 1957; Jones was seen with the group of young men attempting to keep six black students from entering. 

Jones, who was 14 years old at the time, addressed the controversial photo not long after his team's Thanksgiving win over the New York Giants.

"I didn't know at the time the monumental event that was going on, and I'm sure glad that we're a long way from that," Jones explained. "I am. That would remind me just to continue to do everything we can to not have those kinds of things happen."

"I got criticized because I was more interested in how I was going to be punished by my coaches and everybody for being out front, but nobody there had any idea frankly of what was going to take place," Jones continued.

"We didn't have all of the last 70 years of reference and all the things that were going, so you didn't have a reference point there. Still, I've got a habit of sticking this nose in the right place at the wrong time."

Jones then continued by saying that he did get in trouble.

"I was a young sophomore trying to make the team, and they kicked my ass," he said.