Jerry Jones sometimes says too much about his Dallas Cowboys. His cancer battle for more than a decade remained a secret though. Jones told the Dallas Morning News that he beat stage 4 melanoma. The Cowboys owner's battle lasted more than a decade, he said, and included four surgeries.

A comment by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones in the recently released Netflix documentary about the franchise led to the revelation of his cancer diagnosis over a decade ago.

Asked for more details by the Dallas Morning News, Jones said he had stage 4 melanoma in 2010. At stage 4, cancer has spread to other organs. For melanoma, that can be the brain, lungs, liver, or gastrointestinal tract.