[1] His high school athletic director (Jim Kirk) sent a highlight tape of his only games as a starter to different colleges, which eventually helped him get a football scholarship from the University of Miami.
The next week he broke his hand in practice, but still managed to finish the season second on the team in quarterback pressures and posted a career-high 12 tackles against East Carolina University.
As a senior, he was forced to miss spring workouts in order to earn money as a valet attendant at a restaurant, giving Cortez Kennedy the edge to start at right defensive tackle.
[3] He finished his college career winning two national championships (1987 and 1989), while recording 105 tackles, 68 assists and 16+1⁄2 sacks.
Although he was a backup during his college career, Jones was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the third round (64th overall) of the 1990 NFL draft.
He also was a part of one of the most famous Thanksgiving football plays, when he blocked a 41-yard field goal attempt from the Miami Dolphins' Pete Stoyanovich, to preserve what seemed an apparent 14-13 victory, but as the ball rolled toward the Cowboys' end zone, Leon Lett kicked the ball and the Dolphins recovered.
[7] During his four-year Cowboys career, he helped the team win two Super Bowls against the Buffalo Bills twice, played a total of 65 games, starting 16 and recording 19 sacks.
[11] He posted 7 tackles and 2.5 sacks in 14 games, while coming in on passing downs, a role he played while in Dallas.