Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones kneels with players during the national anthem

Former Dallas Cowboy broadcaster Dale Hansen says, “Jerry Jones changed for the worst and I didn’t know him anymore.” He quit his Dallas Cowboy radio job and teamed up with ESPN’s Stephan A. Smith to shame the owner.

Harold your contributions in the community and sports media make my contributions look like something off the cover of “White Privilege.” https://studio.youtube.com/video/51-EwY6t4iA/edit?o=U /               Dale Hansen

AN OPEN LETTER TO DALLAS COWBOY OWNER JERRY JONES!

Dear Mr. Jones,

On Wednesday, March 13, 2019, your friend and former employee sportscaster Dale Hansen was in Washington, DC to receive a Life Time Achievement Award from the Radio-TV- Digital News Foundation. I had never heard of Dale Hansen or the RTDNF until a friend brought them to my attention in February of 2019. Mr. HANSEN’S commentary “White Privilege” had gone viral. My friend claimed he sounded much like me when I ruled sports talk radio here in DC during the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

In his commentary, Mr. Hansen admitted he had been a benefactor of white privilege. He claimed he had eleven jobs in his life and had been fired from eight of them and he moved up the job ladder after each firing. In the black community, we have always felt there was White Privilege, but we had never heard anyone own up to it—until Dale Hansen. I Googled his previous commentaries (60+) to check for consistency and I found there were similarities to my commentaries written back in the day. The only difference, I was far from being a Benrfactor of White Privilege or Black Privilege.

Mr. Hansen did not make his debut with his segment of “Unplugged” until 1993 twenty years after ‘Inside Sports.” My format changed the way we talk sports in America and around the world. Inside Sports has been stolen and copied by hundreds of radio, television and print “Fake News” media organizations including the Washington Post. See link to hijacking below. https://sundaylongread.com/2018/01/28/inside-inside-sports-the-oral-history/

Washington Times legendary sports columnist the late Dick Heller said, “Harold Bell is the ‘God Father’ of sports talk–the good kind.”

NBA Legend the late great Red Auerbach shares a laugh with tennis great Jimmy Connors via telephone with wife Dotie on Inside Sports.

Mr. Jones, according to the dictionary “Plagiarism” is defined as the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own, to me that sounds like Dale Hansen. But I collected myself and said, ‘Sour Grapes’ and I wrote him a letter congratulating him on admitting he was the benefactor of White Privilege. I also mailed him a copy of my new book titled, “My Walkthrough American Sports History with Champs & Chumps.”

Several days later I received a telephone call from Mr. Hansen with the following message, “Harold this is Dale Hansen in Dallas, I lost your phone number when you called the other day. I finally tracked through your notes to find it. Sorry I didn’t get back to you. Your stuff is fantastic to read about, everything you have done makes my stuff a little bit of peeling off the cover of White Privilege seem rather insignificant. I hope this message gets to you, Dale Hansen, thank you, thank you, sir.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swmNaP76IEA

I was a little surprised there was no update letting me know he was going to be in DC a few days later and no attempt to call me after he had arrived just to say, “Hello.”

It looks like he called his partner in crime Stephan A. Smith after the fact (after his telephone message to me) to inquire about me—too late. What is it they say about a guilty conscience? “It is the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is right or wrong.” Meet Dale Hansen and his guilty conscience.

Mr. Jones, a reliable source from ESPN told me that he and Stephan A. Smith conspired in a smear campaign against you and the Dallas Cowboy organization to satisfy their own egos. It looks like they aimed too high. Smith is a well-known loud mouth liar who claims he played basketball for Winston-Salem State and my mentor the late Clarence ‘Bighouse’ Gaines. I am an alumnus of Winston-Salem and I played football and basketball for Bighouse. Mr. Smith came behind me, but according to Coach Gaines he could not play ‘Dead.’ He never got off the bench (check his scoring average during his college career 0.1).

Mr. Smith held a grudge against Coach Gaines for many years. Bighouse was the No. 1 ranked living coach in NCAA basketball wins before the flight of the black athlete to Division One schools. During a bad stretch at the end of his career, he had a difficult time winning games. The black talent pool was no longer available.

Stephan A. Smith used this opportunity to call for his firing. Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe, Timmy Newsome, me and several other high profile athletes called Smith out. He disappeared without a trace and backed down and apologized. This BS about how much he loved Coach Gaines is for the birds.

I am in Chicago receiving the first ever Bighouse Gaines Community Service Award. I lived with Coach and his family after I flunked out my freshman year.

Congratulating Bighouse on his induction into the Naismith Hall of Fame.

Winston-Salem State University alumni, the late Carlos Terry (NBA), Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe (NBA) and former Cowboy Timmy Newsome (NFL) are among the celebrity participants in the 1982 Inside Sports/Kids In Trouble Celebrity Tennis Tournament in Washington, DC

Stephan A. Smith ESPN’s No. 1 clown shows up in Dallas to call out the Cowboys and its owner Jerry Jones.

Dale Hansen’s acceptance speech during the awards’ ceremony was full of “Fake News”. There is one thing that I detest is a liar and a hypocrite and Mr. Hansen are both. During his acceptance speech, he leaned on and includes his granddaughter hoping this will solidify his hypocritical life and past. He wants us to believe that he does not write for a check or awards–he writes for his granddaughter. He made sure that everyone knew his granddaughter was black.

In one of his commentaries, he writes that you had a problem signing all-world wide receiver Randy Moss, because of his checkered past but was quoted saying, “All the rich white men in Dallas and Cowboy fans would have shot black Cowboy players, Pac Man Jones (thug) and Greg Hardy’s (Domestic violence) ass through the glass if they had shown up on their doorsteps for a date with your daughters.” What a hypocrite, like he knew his daughter was sleeping black and approved!
http://www.firstamendmentawards.org/rtdnf-lifetime-achievement-award/

He closes saying, “I hope my granddaughter will be the recipient of a better World than the one I grew up in.” Dale Hansen, it could be a better World, but a better world all starts with her grandfather telling the truth.

In closing, Dale Hansen and Stephanie A. Smith are the bearers of Fake News in sports media. Mr. Jones, I wish you well and many more championships. God bless.

Sincerely,

Harold K. Bell
Inside Sports

Washingtonians of the Year: Redskin QB Joe Theisman shares the honor with me.