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Barry Switzer shares a spectacular story on how he was offered the Cowboys coaching job

Published Sep. 16, 2016 4:52 p.m. ET

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Ohio State and Oklahoma are playing the biggest game of the college football weekend on FOX Saturday, and to get fans ready, Colin Cowherd had iconic Sooners coach Barry Switzer on his show Friday.

However, while the conversation started with talk of Switzer's OU days, it quickly transitioned to the Cowboys, where Switzer coached for four seasons in the mid-1990's. Even more interesting is that Switzer has actually known Dallas owner Jerry Jones since the mid-1960's, when Jones was a football player at Arkansas, and Switzer was a young assistant.

Well, the relationship came full-circle when Jones offered Switzer the job as the Cowboys coach in 1994, but the incredible part is how he offered it. At the time, Jimmy Johnson was still technically in charge, but there was clearly friction between he and Jones.

So instead Jones called Switzer, and Switzer shared that absurd story on "The Herd" Friday (the video is above):

As mentioned above, the relationship between the two was mostly fruitful, as the Cowboys went to the playoffs three times, winning the Super Bowl following the 1995 season.

Eventually Switzer left following the 1997 season.

And as it turns out, Switzer's exit from Dallas was as eventful as his entrance.

Safe to say that Switzer remains one of the most entertaining guys not just in football, but in all of sports, and it seems like he really did enjoy those years in Dallas. As he mentioned in the interview he still speaks with Jones regularly, and actually was supposed to attend last week's Giants-Cowboys game before personal matters came up.

By the way, with Ohio State and Oklahoma playing Saturday, Switzer shared a few stories with FOX Sports on the matchup between the Buckeyes and Sooners when the two teams played in 1977 and he was the coach.

To read Switzer's account of the game, click here. 

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