Josh Brent watches Sunday?s game from Cowboys sideline (Shutdown Corner)

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Josh Brent spent Sunday's game on the Cowboys' sideline, a jarring sight a little more than a week after Brent was charged with intoxication manslaughter following a car accident that killed teammate Jerry Brown. But Brent's presence was requested by his teammates. Brent, a defensive tackle who is on the reserve/non-football injury list for the rest of the season, wore a Cowboys sweatshirt and hat on the sideline through the team's win against Pittsburgh. Brent had Brown's No. 57 jersey draped over his shoulder during the national anthem according to some reports, including one from the Dallas Morning News . "His teammates asked him to come and be down there with him, so that's where we are," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said, according to DallasCowboys.com . "I do know that certainly there's the other side of the coin, but this is the case of the people that he's arguably the closest to really wanted him around." Brent's presence on the sideline was criticized during CBS' halftime show of the Steelers-Cowboys game.

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