49ers Fans Took Over The Cowboys' Stadium, And It's A Disastrous Sign For Jerry Jones

A shocking number of San Francisco 49ers got tickets to the 49ers-Cowboys game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, turning wide swaths of the 88,000-seat stadium into a sea of red.

Reporters in Dallas have estimated that anywhere between 40% and 50% of the crowd is in 49ers gear.

After San Francisco went up 14-3, Fox cut to a shot of the crowd and it was all 49ers fans (via @lukezim):

When Colin Kaepernick threw a touchdown pass to Vernon Davis, it sounded and looked like a 49ers home game:

"I had a fan come up, pretty adamant, put his finger in my face and say, 'You know what a rut is?'

"I said, 'No.'

"And he said, 'It's a casket with both ends out, laying in an open grave. You'd just as soon be dead as that rut you're in. You'd better change that, Jones.'"

The Cowboys are the league's most valuable team at $3.2 billion. The team generates $650 million in revenue every year, ESPN reports, and AT&T Stadium is a "cash factory."

But what the ESPN profile really drives home is how much Jones wants two things that he can't buy, 1) another Super Bowl, and 2) relevance.

"If we had picked Manziel, he'd guarantee our relevance for 10 years," he told Van Natta about why he wanted to draft Johnny Manziel. He talked openly about how much he rejects not taking Johnny Football. 

The fact that Cowboys season ticket holders apparently sold their Week 1 seats on StubHub en masse, and that they were all bought by 49ers fans, is a disastrous sign for both of Jones' goals. The Cowboys are not a good team (as the first half against San Francisco showed), and they're not going to legitimately compete for a Super Bowl this year.

But has been a mediocre team for a while. Now it's in danger of becoming an irrelevant one.