DAILY REPORT

Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys is the first owner to have his own table during Super Bowl news conferences and seems to be enjoying every moment of them.

Thursday morning, Jones arrived at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 20 minutes before his team, was a half-hour into his media discourse before the sessions began and continued talking well after everybody else had stopped--for a total of about 100 minutes.

Do his fellow owners think he’s crazy for making himself so available?

“I think that most of the other owners realize that I have a little different position in that I am the general manager and president of the club,” Jones said. “I’m the day-to-day manager and operator of the club. . . . I’m doing this in that capacity.”

Jones said thrusting himself into the public eye helps Cowboy fans understand and identify with his team--and see him as someone other than the man who fired Tom Landry as coach after buying the Cowboys in 1989.

Dallas defensive coordinator Dave Wannstedt said that, although the Buffalo Bills’ no-huddle offense will test the endurance of his defensive linemen, the youth of his unit eases his concern.

The Cowboys have rotated defensive linemen all season, keeping fresh players in the game.

“The advantage is we’ve got a young football team,” Wannstedt said. “Russell Maryland, Charles Haley, he can run forever . . . Tony Tolbert . . . .

“So, we know we’re a well-conditioned team, and hopefully, it won’t affect us as much as maybe somebody on the other end of the spectrum.”

Dallas Coach Jimmy Johnson, who had planned to go from Pasadena to the Bahamas after the Super Bowl, said he will be stopping over in Dallas, after all.

“All my fish have been on a diet for the last few days,” Johnson said, referring to the huge aquariums he keeps in his Irving, Tex., condominium. “So they’re going to want to eat something Monday.”