Jeff Bezos, owner of Washington Post, was rooting for Cowboys on Sunday

The Cowboys didn’t really need extra buzz for their home opener against the Commanders on Sunday. Owner Jerry Jones decided to create some, anyway.

Jones invited Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to attend the game against the Commanders.

Bezos owns the Washington Post. So he was there to support the hometown team, right?

“One, I really want the Cowboys to win today,” Bezos said, via Chris Amaya of the Dallas Morning News. “Second is field energy here. It’s such great energy here. There’s something special about this stadium . . . about this team, and of course, something special about Jerry. It’s great to be his guest.”

For Jones’s part, he praised Bezos before Sunday’s game.

“What he is, is a part of what we all are proud of, and that’s being a part of America,” Jones said. “It’s quite a privilege. Like I said, I pulled out all the stops to try and give us some energy to win this game today.”

It’s highly unlikely that the extra energy from Bezos’s presence made a difference. The bigger question is whether Jerry may be thinking about peeling off a slice of his equity in the team and selling it to Bezos.

Bezos has long been linked to potential NFL ownership. When the Commanders and Seahawks were for sale, however, he didn’t submit a bid. He could buy a piece of the Cowboys (they haven’t ruled out selling a minority stake) and wait for an opportunity to buy all (or most) of another team that is put on the market.

With a net worth of $378 billion, Bezos could buy any team he wants — and he’d likely never even notice the absence of the purchase price from his balance sheet.