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Apparently, the decision to leave a hole in the roof of the place where the Cowboys play has paid off. Discussing on Thursday the stadium that will open in 2019 in L.A., Cowboys owner Jerry Jones suggested that a little divine intervention was involved.

“A great idea without the right owner was never going to get it,” Jones said Thursday, via Vincent Bonsignore of the L.A. Daily News. “And of course, here comes Stan Kroenke walking though that door with a great relationship with Inglewood and a great plan. And when he presented that to the NFL, I’ll tell you, it immediately felt like something had been sent to us from above, as far as the NFL was concerned.”

The compliments offered by Jones to Rams owner Stan Kroenke are so strong that it’s hard not to view the words as a slap at Chargers owner Dean Spanos, whose rival project in Carson failed miserably when the time came to choose between it and Kroenke’s Inglewood proposal.

“My concern has always been, relative to the NFL and Los Angeles, is that we had the right man, the right owner,” Jones said. “One of the biggest concerns that, on a personal level, as much as I’ve been involved in the NFL, my background in the NFL and as much as we all knew that Los Angeles needed to have an NFL team, the biggest concern was we had to have the right man leading the way. The right owner.”

The man not deemed to be “the right owner” could soon be taking his team to L.A. as well, if the Chargers failed to get voter approval on a new stadium in San Diego. The remarks from Jones could make Spanos even more determined to find a way to make things work where he is, so that he won’t be serving as second fiddle to the man whom Jones has so lavishly praised.