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May 17, 2012
Man Who Will Turn Cotton Bowl Facade into Public Art Likes Glass. And Light
Much has been written about the now-certain $25 million renovation and expansion of the Cotton Bowl and the subsequent announcement that the stadium will host the annual cross-border skirmish between the University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma (and their football teams) through at l ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2012
Texas-OU is Staying at the Cotton Bowl
If you build it dump $82 million into it, they will come. Mayor Mike Rawlings sends word today that it's a lock: The annual, traffic-snarling blood feud between the University of Texas and Oklahoma University known as the Red River Shootout will be played in the Cotton Bowl at least through 2020. ... More >>
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May 3, 2012
Run Rampant, Fur Children
If you build it dump $82 million into it, they will come. Mayor Mike Rawlings sends word today that it's a lock: The annual, traffic-snarling blood feud between the University of Texas and Oklahoma University known as the Red River Shootout will be played in the Cotton Bowl at least through 2020. ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
Texas and OU, Count Your Money: The Cotton Bowl's $25 Million Facelift is a Lock
The backdrop, the pageantry, the Fried Everything: There are plenty of reasons the folks at Texas and Oklahoma wouldn't mind keeping the schools' annual rivalry at the Cotton Bowl. But these are college football guys we're talking about, so you can't underestimate the Big R. The schools split $10 ... More >>
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April 2, 2012
City Hall Shouldn't Make Any Promises About Hosting the World Cup at the Cotton Bowl
As we mentioned Saturday, there's a deal in the works to keep the annual Texas-OU orgy at Fair Park, but it hinges on the city's willingness to raise $25 million to upgrade the Cotton Bowl. It feels like chump change, considering the history and economic impact of the event. But then again, the econ ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2012
Olympics! World Cup! Texas-OU Forever! How City Hall is Selling More Cotton Bowl Upgrades
Before he left for the Land of a Thousand Blogs, Robert Wilonsky had a few stories about city officials' desire -- they would call it a need -- to spend another $25 million or so sprucing up the Cotton Bowl, just four years after taxpayers coughed up $57 million for upgrades. It's (almost) all in th ... More >>
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March 5, 2012
Park and Rec Is Looking For Firm to Handle $27 Million Worth of Cotton Bowl Improvements
Shortly before the 2011 kick-off of Texas-OU's annual clash at the Cotton Bowl we spoke with Willis Winters, Park and Rec's second-in-command, about the need to once again renovate the Fair Park stadium in order to keep the Red River Shootout in Dallas past the 2015 contract. Said Winters, it was ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
Once More, With Feeling, Questions at City Hall About How to Make Better Use of Fair Park
We've had this conversation before. And before that. And before that. Why oh why oh why is Fair Park -- "our jewel," in the words of Dwaine Caraway -- so underutilized, so unloved?Daniel Huerta, Fair Park's exec general manager, and Park and Rec head Paul Dyer, actually came to the Quality of Lif ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2011
Conference USA Is Taking Over TicketCity Bowl (Which Will Feature Houston and Penn State)
Far as lower-tier bowl games go, the second-ever TicketCity Bowl -- to be played January 2 at 11 a.m. at the Cotton Bowl -- is about as intriguing as it gets: The University of Houston (so, so, so close -- a one-loss team, thanks to Southern Miss over the weekend) will take on Penn State (well, y ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2011
Heritage to Sell Odd Bit of Cotton Bowl History. Turns Out, the City Has Its Own Stash o' Seats.
Heritage Auction GalleriesFor the longest time I've had this auction item sitting on my desktop: a chair said to be from the Cotton Bowl circa 1960-'62, during the Dallas Texans' days at Fair Park. Heritage is parting with the curio this weekend, during the same auction at which it's offering the ... More >>
Blogs
November 7, 2011
The Food of Dallas' Diwali Mela
We told you to go; I hope you listened. Diwali Mela festivities went off at the Cotton Bowl over the weekend during a beautifully crisp fall evening. Golf carts shuttled Mela-goers from the Fair Park DART station to the west side of the stadium, where the smell of curry powder and fried potatoes ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Old School Shootout
We told you to go; I hope you listened. Diwali Mela festivities went off at the Cotton Bowl over the weekend during a beautifully crisp fall evening. Golf carts shuttled Mela-goers from the Fair Park DART station to the west side of the stadium, where the smell of curry powder and fried potatoes ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
If Texas and OU Need More Seats to Stay at the Cotton Bowl, Well, There Is Room to Expand
It's been all of three years, almost to the day, since then-Mayor Tom Leppert and Tennell Atkins played a game of catch on the Cotton Bowl field to formally commemorate the end of $57 million worth of redos, $30 million of which was paid for out of the 2006 bond program with the State Fair of Tex ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
So, Whatever Happened to That Texxas Jam '78 Documentary, Anyway?
Archway PicturesSpeaking of the Texxas Jam, as we're known to do from time to time, while researching yesterday's Fleetwood Mac attack at the Cotton Bowl in '78 I stumbled across an Internet Movie Database entry for something called Texxas Jam '78, which promises to be "the first real look at an ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
For Your Holiday Weekend Listening Pleasure: Fleetwood Mac's '78 Cotton Bowl Landslide
At last night's Gasland screening, an environmentalist activist of some note noted how much he enjoyed reading Unfair Park ... for the Friday musical offerings, many of which were echoes of shows he'd once attended. Then, this afternoon, a request from another Friend of Unfair Park: Steive Nicks ... More >>
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May 28, 2011
From the '36 Centennial Expo to the JFK Assassination to the SMU Death Penalty, Hundreds of Short Moments and Memories
Below, Friend of Unfair Park PeterK was wondering in the comments what newsreel footage of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition looked like. So he set off in search of some. And what he came back with last night was an extraordinary find -- a 42-clip collection consisting not only of short glimps ... More >>
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April 28, 2011
NCAA Delays Reupping TicketCity Bowl License
The NCAA's Postseason Bowl Licensing Subcommittee met today in New Orleans, where it okee-doke'd bowl licenses through 2013-'14 for 32 out of the 35 game played during college football's post-season. (Really? Only 35? Coulda swore it was more like 98.) Anyway. Two of the no-go's were already fo-s ... More >>
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April 14, 2011
Lapping Up the Cotton Bowl
The NCAA's Postseason Bowl Licensing Subcommittee met today in New Orleans, where it okee-doke'd bowl licenses through 2013-'14 for 32 out of the 35 game played during college football's post-season. (Really? Only 35? Coulda swore it was more like 98.) Anyway. Two of the no-go's were already fo-s ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2011
City to Spend Some Fair Park Marketing Money to Keep TicketCity Bowl Through 2018 Game
The Cotton Bowl Classic, of course, is no longer played at the Cotton Bowl -- hasn't been for two years, when the bowl game decamped for Arlington, thus making it a very unhappy New Year 'round Fair Park at kickoff time. Then came along the TicketCity Bowl -- Texas Tech vs. Northwestern to start ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Bad News for Fiesta Good News For Cotton?
Following yesterday's release of that damning, mammoth report about all flavor of fiscal shenanigans at the Fiesta Bowl, the question immediately became: Well, what about the Cotton Bowl taking its place in the BCS rotation? But Dennis Dodd at CBS Sports explained, initially, Not so fast:If there ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
"People Openly Lit Up and Smoked Marijuana": Take a Big Whiff of the Texxas Jam in 1978
As many times as the Texxas Jam's come up, I can't believe we've never seen this: Channel 8's coverage of the '78 "Texxas Music Festival," featuring reporter Randy Jackson's sweat-soaked, dope-smoked coverage of the billion-degree July 1 concert at the Cotton Bowl. Among the headliners that day: Aer ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
In Case You Didn't Pick Up Those Dallas Texans Football Cards at 7-Eleven in 1960 ...
Heritage Auction GalleriesJust found these over on Heritage Auction Galleries' website -- a collection of 7-Eleven-sold football cards of Hank Stram's Dallas Texans, circa 1960. Says Heritage, which will put them up for sale in April, they're "among the rarest regionally issued card collectibles ... More >>
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February 9, 2011
Yet Another Exciting Addition to Fair Park: "Proposed Cotton Bowl Museum." Pardon?
Flickr user: steevithakShame about this weather -- if only because the ice and snow put the kibosh on our plans to head down to Fair Park this morning for a meeting of the Landmark Commission's Fair Park Task Force, which was called on account of the weather. Because, you see, there was this one ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
Super (?) News & Notes: From Cotton Bowl to Coliseum, Power (For Now!) and Shut Up, Baby
The latest Oncor outage map. As always, updates available here.That's the latest Oncor outage map above -- and it appears quite a bit busier than yesterday's at-this-time look-see. (Which might explain the fleet of tree-removal trucks that just passed in front of the house?) Still, ERCOT and Onco ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2011
Super Bowl Parties Already Half Off
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to today's Groupon Daily Deal for Dallas: half-off tickets to Pamela Anderson's Super Bash 2011 at the Fashion Industry Gallery on Ross Ave., which takes place Friday night from 9 till 3 in the morning and will feature among the special guests none ot ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Tonight: The Best Way to Spend Twenty Bucks
Sports bars and any restaurant with a giant-ass television will be packed tonight with football fans watching the Cotton Bowl, so head on over to Nana (2201 Stemmons Freeway) for Friday Night Flights. The popular monthly wine series is back with an evening dedicated to Syrah wines. Sample wi ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2010
Your First Super Bowl Party Invite: The Village People at the Cotton Bowl. Wait. What?
We are 59 days from kickoff of Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, and The Great Prostitution Invasion of '11 only feels like a long way off. But, no -- time to party plan. And yesterday, this invite arrived to a three-night-stravaganza at Fair Park starting February 3 called, simply, XLV Party. Better ... More >>
News
September 30, 2010
Texas-OU has, with last week's shocking Longhorns loss, slid from a marquee game with national implications.
We are 59 days from kickoff of Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, and The Great Prostitution Invasion of '11 only feels like a long way off. But, no -- time to party plan. And yesterday, this invite arrived to a three-night-stravaganza at Fair Park starting February 3 called, simply, XLV Party. Better ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2010
Bowled Over: Dallas Gets Two Holiday Games
About 10 percent of next winter's college bowl games will be played right here in our backyard, two under noses in Dallas. In addition to the Cotton Bowl at Cowboys Stadium, this year will mark the debut of the Dallas Football Classic at the Cotton Bowl. And yesterday brought news that the A ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Boston Headlines the Texxas Jam in the Summer of '87
A few months back we spoke of the late, great Texxas Jam, and I'll be honest -- that poster at right is mine. It's framed and hangs in the Unfair Park home office, near the framed flier for Joe Jackson's June 2, 1984, Body and Soul Tour stop at the Fair Park Bandshell. It's my sole souvenir from ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2010
Between the Football and the S.W.A.T. Training, Cotton Bowl's Doing Just Fine
Patrick MichelsTom Leppert gives a nod to the backers who helped the Cotton Bowl land the new Dallas Football Classic, which has a banner of its own, even if it's not as big.Hand-wringers who said the Cotton Bowl would sit empty now that the Cotton Bowl Classic took its wagons west to Arlington c ... More >>
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April 8, 2010
Ruff Play
Patrick MichelsTom Leppert gives a nod to the backers who helped the Cotton Bowl land the new Dallas Football Classic, which has a banner of its own, even if it's not as big.Hand-wringers who said the Cotton Bowl would sit empty now that the Cotton Bowl Classic took its wagons west to Arlington c ... More >>
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April 7, 2010
Are You Ready for Some (College Bowl Game) Football?!
While Cowboys Stadium is a greedy, event-eating monster and Texas Stadium is an icon about to be reduced to novelty-act rubble, the Cotton Bowl is still a living, breathing attraction. Barely. Later this month in Phoenix the NCAA will likely grant certification to the start-up Dallas Footbal ... More >>
Blogs
January 2, 2010
A Parade of New Year's Parade Photos
All photos by Harry Wilonsky"Who's Ron Jackson?" asks the boy. "That's Jason Castro," I tell him. "Who?" "Exactly."It's no longer the Cotton Bowl Parade that snakes through downtown Dallas on New Year's Day. Wouldn't make sense -- the Cotton Bowl's now in Arlington, in case you missed that break ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2009
2010 Cotton Bowl: Oklahoma State vs. Old Opponent
At least they saved money on a new logo.For the first Cotton Bowl at Cowboys Stadium it's going to be ... Oklahoma State vs. Mississippi. Wait, haven't we seen Ole Miss in the Cotton Bowl recently? Like, um, last January?
Blogs
November 4, 2009
Yes, But Does a "Classic" Bowl Game Really Involve Conference "Also-Rans"?
God knows the city's been talking about it since forever -- you know, finding another bowl game to stick in the Cotton Bowl, since the actual New Year's Day Cotton Bowl Classic will now be played at the EnormoDome in Arlington, which is about 389 shades of ain't-right, but, whatever. So, maybe yo ... More >>
News
October 22, 2009
Texas-OU Belongs in the Cotton Bowl, But Jerry Jones is Preparing to Lure the Game to You Know Where.
God knows the city's been talking about it since forever -- you know, finding another bowl game to stick in the Cotton Bowl, since the actual New Year's Day Cotton Bowl Classic will now be played at the EnormoDome in Arlington, which is about 389 shades of ain't-right, but, whatever. So, maybe yo ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2009
Tailgating It at Texas-OU
Photos by Danny FulgencioA few shots before kick-off? Sure, why not.By 8 a.m. Saturday Oklahoma had pumped its trucks and minivans into Texas to clog Interstate 35 worse than a fat man's aorta. A normally 40-minute drive to Fair Park took well over two hours. It was a fine time to contemplate th ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
Given Oklahoma’s two losses, Saturday’s showdown with Texas has lost some luster
Photos by Danny FulgencioA few shots before kick-off? Sure, why not.By 8 a.m. Saturday Oklahoma had pumped its trucks and minivans into Texas to clog Interstate 35 worse than a fat man's aorta. A normally 40-minute drive to Fair Park took well over two hours. It was a fine time to contemplate th ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2009
Texas to Get Revenge on OU for Last Year's Loss. Wait ... What?
Dear Oklahoma, I am indeed a bitch. Sincerely, Karma Last year the Oklahoma Sooners were whipped by the Texas Longhorns in their annual mid-October showdown in the Cotton Bowl. Both teams lost one game all season, yet somehow - inexplicably - it was Oklahoma, through a discombobulated nation ... More >>
Dining
October 8, 2009
Cheap Bastard Goes to the State Fair and Gets Her Fry On
Dear Oklahoma, I am indeed a bitch. Sincerely, Karma Last year the Oklahoma Sooners were whipped by the Texas Longhorns in their annual mid-October showdown in the Cotton Bowl. Both teams lost one game all season, yet somehow - inexplicably - it was Oklahoma, through a discombobulated nation ... More >>
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September 24, 2009
Kickin' Cotton
Dear Oklahoma, I am indeed a bitch. Sincerely, Karma Last year the Oklahoma Sooners were whipped by the Texas Longhorns in their annual mid-October showdown in the Cotton Bowl. Both teams lost one game all season, yet somehow - inexplicably - it was Oklahoma, through a discombobulated nation ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2009
Says Mayor Leppert, Dallas is Now "One of the Premier Places for Football and Soccer"
Megan FeldmanAt an afternoon press conference at the Cotton Bowl, where city officials gathered to officially announce next month's double-header soccer game at the 77-year-old stadium, Mayor Tom Leppert emphatically dismissed a reporter's suggestion that it may be tough for the recently rehabbed ... More >>
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January 1, 2009
Bye-Bye, Cotton
Big D sends its bowl packing
News
January 10, 2008
Cotton Bowl: Goodbye, Dallas. Hello, Palace.
Like it or not, relocation is the right Cotton-pickin' decision.
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September 27, 2007
Soul Bowl
The State Fair Classic kicks off
News
March 15, 2007
Too Cool for Fools | Twist and Shout | Little Guy's Lament
The State Fair Classic kicks off
News
March 8, 2007
Cool Cotton
If anything, now is the time to embrace the Cotton Bowl
News
January 4, 2007
Out With the Old
With the Cotton Bowl's inevitable departure, Dallas dies a little more
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December 28, 2006
The Touch, The Feel
With the Cotton Bowl's inevitable departure, Dallas dies a little more
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