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  • Cowboys’ Jerry Jones raises eyebrows with old-school phrase but there’s a good explanation

    Cowboys’ Jerry Jones raises eyebrows with old-school phrase but there’s a good explanation

    Dallas Cowboys team owner Jerry Jones roiled fans when the team announced that Brian Schottenheimer would be the team’s next head coach, but it was his remarks to reporters on Monday that raised eyebrows.

    It was not exactly Jones defending the decision that caught the NFL world’s attention. It was more how he said it.

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    Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones speaks to the media at a press conference at the Star in Frisco, Texas, on Jan. 27, 2025. (Tim Heitman-Imagn Images)

    “There’s a very low percentage of this that is smiles and glory holes. Very low percentage,” he told FOX 4 Dallas when asked about his feelings toward the Cowboys’ fans reactions.

    Jones’ use of the phrase “glory hole” drew confusion and mockery. The two most-known references for the term are an unkempt storage place or a hole in the wall used for sexual exploitation. However, Jones seemed to be referring to an open quarry.

    Glory hole is also a term used in the oil and gas industry as a type of mining into the sea to protect equipment from icebergs or packs of ice. Jones made money in the oil and gas industry before he decided to buy the Cowboys in 1989.

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    Jerry Jones and Brian Schottenheimer

    Dallas Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer, left, and owner Jerry Jones speak to the media at a press conference at the Star in Frisco, Texas, on Jan. 27, 2025. (Tim Heitman-Imagn Images)

    Sports Illustrated pointed out it was not the first time he referenced it either.

    “I’ve been here when it was glory hole days, and I’ve been here when it wasn’t. Having said that, I want me some glory hole,” he said in 2012, via the Houston Chronicle.

    When phrased like that, the Cowboys have not found any glory holes since the mid-1990s, when they last won the Super Bowl and were considered to be America’s Team.

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    The addition of Schottenheimer was far from the marquee move fans expected, but the Cowboys were 12-5 for three straight seasons before being dealt with numerous injuries in 2024.

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    Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

  • NASA provides explanation for ‘strange noises’ coming from Starliner spacecraft

    NASA provides explanation for ‘strange noises’ coming from Starliner spacecraft

    The mystery behind a “strange noise” that a NASA astronaut heard coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft while aboard the International Space Station has been solved, the space agency said Monday.

    Astronaut Butch Wilmore first reported the pulsating sound coming from a speaker inside the spacecraft to Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Saturday, just days before it was set to leave the station and return to Earth on autopilot.

    NASA said in a statement on social media that the pulsing sound from the speaker has since stopped and determined the feedback was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner.

    “The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback,” NASA said. “The crew is asked to contact mission control when they hear sounds originating in the comm system. The speaker feedback Wilmore reported has no technical impact to the crew, Starliner, or station operations, including Starliner’s uncrewed undocking from the station no earlier than Friday, Sept. 6.”

    NASA ASTRONAUT STUCK IN SPACE REPORTS ‘STRANGE NOISES’ FROM TROUBLED STARLINER CAPSULE

    NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams pose on June 13 from inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station’s Harmony module and Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. The astronauts have been stuck in space since June. (NASA)

    The mystery of the pulsating sound comes as Starliner is slated to undock from the space station empty and attempt to return on autopilot with a touchdown in the New Mexico desert. 

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    Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station on July 3 as seen from a window on the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft docked to an adjacent port. (NASA via AP)

    Wilmore and astronaut Suni Williams, who have been stuck on the space station since June, are expected to remain in space until February after NASA decided it was too risky to bring the seasoned pilots back to Earth aboard Starliner. The current plan is to bring the astronauts back in a SpaceX capsule.

    NASA PLANS TO SEND 2 ASTRONAUTS INSTEAD OF 3 TO ISS SO PAIR STRANDED BY TROUBLED BOEING STARLINER CAN RETURN

    The astronauts were originally slated for a weeklong trip, but the mission has been mired in problems after thruster failures and helium leaks.

    The balloon-shaped Starliner spacecraft is docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station high above Egypt's Mediterranean coast.

    NASA said the mysterious pulsating noise was the result of an audio configuration between Starliner and the International Space Station. (NASA via AP, File)

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    Boeing had counted on Starliner’s first crew trip to revive the troubled spacecraft program after years of delays and ballooning costs. The company had insisted Starliner was safe based on recent thruster tests in both space and on the ground.

    Fox News Digital’s Bradford Betz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.