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It’s amazing, in hindsight, that Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson coexisted for as long as they did.

Twenty years after their divorce, which came barely five years after their marriage began, the irreconcilable differences remain unreconciled. Especially when it comes to the move that helped lay the foundation for the team that won three Super Bowls in four years.

Jimmy says Jerry didn’t want to trade Herschel. Predictably, Jerry says it was all his idea.

“I was visiting about trading Herschel Walker weeks before we ever started directly talking about it,” Jones told 105.3 The Fan/Dallas-Fort Worth on Friday, via Charean Williams of the Forth Worth Star-Telegram. “So anybody that has any thinking that it was their unique idea. . . . There were a lot of different ways, a lot of ways of thinking coming up with did Herschel, was Herschel? Was he the future? What direction were we going to go? Those kinds of things.

“The reason I’m saying this is you mentioned Jimmy. We didn’t have any of this B.S. at that time. Both of us felt so lucky to get up in the morning and be here. We were hemming and hawing and working together, not worrying about who was doing what. I’ll tell you this. We had our sleeves rolled up, and we were working, doing everything we could to help build this team.”

The latest discrepancy comes several weeks after Jones explained that Johnson wouldn’t be placed in the franchise’s ring of honor via a stammering, speechless explanation to ESPN.

Ultimately, Jones justified the decision to exclude Jimmy by pointing to the fact that Jimmy didn’t contribute on the field. Perhaps the better reason to leave him out would be the hideous shorts he was wearing in this well-worth-your-five-minutes-on-a-Friday-afternoon CBS feature from 1989.