Subject: Texas Stadium

• Black Good Friday

  November 24, 2006

• Fair Park is the New Baltic Avenue

  April 24, 2006

• Wrestling With Bad News: WCCW's Legendary Gary Hart Died Yesterday

  March 17, 2008

• Is it Bigger Than a Bread Basket?

  August 4, 2008

• The Only Incentive Dallas Can Offer Filmmakers: Blow Us Up, Please?

  August 21, 2008

• A Luksa Back at Texas Stadium

  September 15, 2008

• And Awaaaay We Go

  September 15, 2008

• Be Seated

  September 15, 2008

• The Inflatable Helmet Is Being Inflated

  September 15, 2008

• Former Cowboys Share Fond Memories. Peter King Shares Gloom, Doom.

  October 21, 2008

• If Only Jerry Jones' Wrapping Paper Could Throw a Football

  November 3, 2008

• Texas Stadium: The Beginning of the End

  Four games and one auction left before our grand ol' theater is ... flattened? Three … Two … One … Go! To Texas Stadium’s going-out-of-business sale, that is. The official Texas Stadium auction begins this morning right here. From today through Dec. 6, fans can bid on select memorabilia from the 35-year-old joint. If last night’s spit and spunk is any indication, the Cowboys may just be worth investing in after all. Over 500 items will be available to become really co

  November 17, 2008

• Now, You Can Hang Your Clothes in Tony Romo's Locker

  Richie mentioned it this morning, but it's worth repeating this afternoon if you're searching for one-of-a-kind Cowboys collectibles for those on your holiday wish list. Beginning today through December 6, the Dallas Cowboys are auctioning off damned near the entire contents of Texas Stadium, including every last locker, sign, turnstile, sideline star, therapeutic hot tub, door, painting, light fixture, red phone and urinal. Seriously, you could spend an entire afternoon browsing the select

  November 17, 2008

• The 10 Worst Sports Mascots of All-Time

  It was the worst of times. It was the best of times. In that order. There is a God. One who, of course, loves sports. And one who, when peering through the hole in the roof, hates what the Dallas Cowboys' ridiculous mascot does to his favorite team. In other words, Rowdy has been banned. According to this USA Today story – with props to Tim McMahon of Dallas’ Only Daily – Rowdy’s role will continue to be diminished when the Cowboys host the 49ers Sunday at Texas Stadium. Seems

  November 20, 2008

• Jonas Brothers Predict Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day Victory!

  Gather the kiddies 'round the warm glow of the computer monitor: The Jonas Brothers were on CNN this morning! And they were sitting on the field at Texas Stadium, where, tomorrow, they'll perform during halftime of Cowboys-Seahawks to kick off the Salvation Army's Red Kettle Christmas charity campaign. Incidentally, this is how the great Charles Pierce describes tomorrow's game for Daily Beast this a.m.: "Seattle brings its orthopedically-challenged passing game to Dallas so Terrell Owens can ru

  November 26, 2008

• Godspeed, My Holy Friend

  T-Minus five days until the final Dallas Cowboys' game at Texas Stadium. I have a vague recollection of climbing atop Dad's shoulders and watching Don Meredith toss bombs to Bob Hayes at the Cotton Bowl, but basically my life's screenplay starts in Texas Stadium.   Section 12. Row 24. Seat 8. For a 7-year-old punk, there was no better place on Earth than the 8-yard line, visitors' side. Pops thinks he secured the right to those seats via a bond that cost him a cool $300. In Jonestown

  December 15, 2008

• Cowboys About to Get Farked Over

  This morning, I sort of casually mentioned that Your Dallas Cowboys had come up with one of the worst ideas in the history of goodbyes: allowing fans to choose the last song ever played over the Texas Stadium public address system following the Ravens game. That's the ballot pictured above -- and, yes, those are the actual official choices. Well, as has been pointed out to me repeatedly this morning, the New York Mets did something similar for the final Opening Day game ever played at Shea Stadi

  December 15, 2008

• The Top 10 Most Memorable Moments in the History of Grand Ol' Texas Stadium

    Fittingly, the stadium with the hole in the roof - so God could watch his favorite football team, duh - was christened by a 10-day Billy Graham crusade. A month later - Oct. 24, 1971 - Texas Stadium opened for Cowboys' business. Come Saturday night, the ol' joint at Loop 12 and Highway 114 in the armpit of Irving will embrace its last traffic jam. And perhaps provide one final indelible memory. After Cowboys-Ravens, the Cowboys will trot out 100 former players and coaches

  December 17, 2008

• Video of the Week: The Best Game in the History of Texas Stadium

  Larry Cole. Roger Staubach. Tony Hill. Pat Summerall. Tom Landry. Cowboys 35, Redskins 34 in 1979. They can take the Cowboys out of Texas Stadium, but they'll never take Texas Stadium out of the Cowboys. I still get goose bumps. - Richie Whitt

  December 19, 2008

• Nevermores 33, Never Agains 24

  Lowlights from the final night at Texas Stadium: *I know the Buccaneers and Eagles lost yesterday and there's still hope for the Cowboys making the playoffs. But what happened Saturday night was inexcusable. *Safety Ken Hamlin, who played in the Pro Bowl last January, was unblocked and had both hands on both Ravens' runners on the final, fatal touchdown runs of 77 and 82 yards. Hamlin went low on Willis McGahee and his left forearm just caromed off the running back's knee. Hamlin then we

  December 22, 2008

• My Photographic Farewell to Texas Stadium

  I never claimed to be a great writer. Even a worse photographer.Nonetheless, armed with an iPhone and a life's worth of memories, I'd be honored if you'd allow me to take you on a tour of Texas Stadium's final night. Follow me. Right this way. Here it is. The house that Tex Schramm built and Tom Landry turned into an icon.  Everybody is nostalgic. Even, um, Santa Cowboy and his elves? Let's go in for one last spin around the joint, shall we?

  December 21, 2008

• A Wake for a Dump, or: Goodbye, Farewell and Amen to Texas Stadium

  Editor's note: Dave Lane, co-host of KTCK-AM's Saturday-morning The Orphanage reports from Texas Stadium last night:Texas Stadium always looked better on TV. In person, it was a concrete-and-chain-link craphole with tacked-on suites and suspect pools of standing water. Still -- as I was reminded yesterday, as early arrivals for the nighttime kickoff snapped farewell photos in the shadow of the house Warren Morrey built -- it was our craphole. There was no place I'd rather be on an autumn after

  December 21, 2008

• The Worst Cowboys Song Ever and "The Oddest" High School Game Ever

  Know Your Dallas Cowboys, apparently, has an endless supply of videos from the Dallas Cowboys Christmas '86 album. This one, featuring some old-timers, is particularly appropriate, given Texas Stadium's tepid adios on Saturday night. And, in other local football news -- actual news -- in the spirit of Christmas, may we direct your attention to the latest Rick Reilly column about "the oddest game in high school football history [played] last month down in Grapevine, Texas." --Robert Wilonsky

  December 23, 2008

• Whitt's End

  *I seem to be fresh out of cash, but I'll betcha some leftover Christmas fruitcake that the Cowboys don't win in Philly Sunday. A team that leads the league in penalties, can't get in sync on something as simple as the center-quarterback snap, and allows the longest back-to-back running plays in NFL history with Texas Stadium's legacy on the line, just doesn't seem poised to flip a switch and play a disciplined, dominant game when it counts. Does it? *Considering our Super Bowl expectatio

  December 26, 2008

• Evil's triumph at Texas Stadium

  January 18, 1996

• George Stadium

  June 4, 2009

• Letters

  December 12, 1996

• Buzz

  December 26, 1996

• Bad Judgement

  August 21, 1997

• Today at Texas Stadium, the Dallas Cowboys Deliver to the Highest Bidders

  Patrick MichelsYep, there goes the Dallas Cowboys star off the Texas Stadium 50-yard line. That happened just a few hours ago, on this first day for online auction winners to pick up their treasures.More coming soon from Intern Kelly on the scene in Irving, now that the entire stadium has turned into a souvenir stand (no word yet on who gets the star). Of course, we'll have plenty more photos too.

  January 30, 2009

• Cowboys Fans Take Home A Piece Every Conceivable Slice of Texas Stadium

  Patrick MichelsOne more piece of Texas Stadium sets out into the world.Tonight, somewhere in Texas, a Dallas Cowboys super-fan will return to home and mount a piece of signage above his family's fireplace. Maybe a naked section of wall space will already be waiting. "We Stop Selling Beer at The End of the 3rd QUARTER!," the black and red letters say with authority. Move over, family portrait. Last year the Cowboys announced that they'd be auctioning off the innards of Texas Stadium, right dow

  January 30, 2009

• Wrestling With Tragedy

  November 20, 1997

• 1998 Best of Dallas

  September 24, 1998

• Because, Apparently, Selling Used Stuff to Cowboys Fans Is Easier than Throwing it Away

  Patrick MichelsWorkers already took care of the Texas Stadium 50-year-line in January. But maybe you can still get Quincy Carter's old locker?Guess Jerry Jones didn't sell off every last scrap of Texas Stadium during his everything-must-go auction, as today the Dallas Cowboys send word that this weekend, the broken-down hole-in-the-roof will host yet another fire sale. This one goes by the moniker "Farewell Fan Fest and Memorabilia Sale." Parking and admission's free for those in desperate need

  February 18, 2009

• Cattle call

  April 8, 1999

• Wing, No Prayer

  Texas Stadium hears what it sounds like when doves cry

  November 29, 2001

• Texas Stadium Deserved a Fonder Farewell Than This

  December 25, 2008

• Excitebike 2008

  April 3, 2008

• Corporate Cowboys

  America's Team wants your dirty, sexy money. Lots of it.

  November 29, 2007

• Super Duper

  March 29, 2007

• Ball Games

  Poker and Monday Night Football go hand in hand at Firewater

  December 23, 2004

• Best Sports Venue

  Texas Stadium

  October 14, 2004

• Down & Dirty

  To the extreme

  April 10, 2003

• 60,000 naked men

  When the Promise Keepers revival rolls into town, every soul in sight gets exposed

  November 14, 1996

• Michael Jackson, That Little Rascal

  The Star-Telegram has rounded up a few folks who attended The Jacksons' three-night stopover at Texas Stadium in 1984, to which I referred yesterday. Contained therein is a story that I will spend the better part of today and the next who-knows-how-long fleshing out, if only because I've finally found the premise for the book I never knew I wanted to write: The Night Michael Jackson Slept at Spanky's House. Mitch Mitchell (no, not that one) has the scant details, courtesy George "Spanky" McFarla

  June 26, 2009

• Farewell, Farrah Fawcett

  Corpus Christi native Farrah Fawcett, who died today at the age of 62 following a lengthy and very public battle with cancer, will be remembered for many things: Charlie's Angels, her hair, that pin-up poster, The Burning Bed (she could act!), her David Letterman appearance. But locals who actually saw Robert Altman's 2000 filmed-in-Dallas Dr. T and the Women will never forget how she made a splash in the fountain at NorthPark Center. (Update: Yes, sorry. And Logan's Run.)Update at 5:15 p.m.: On

  June 25, 2009

• Scoreboard! Or: This Texas Stadium Relic Would Look Great Above Your Bed.

  ​Seems like we'll never be done with Reunion Arena or Texas Stadium, which is still loaded with shit the city of Irving would love to sell you for pennies on the penny. Like, oh, this scoreboard -- which, believe it or not, can be yours for the low, low price (so far) of ... $25?!?! (Same goes for the Motorola scoreboard, and the Pepsi and Dr Pepper video monitors that once hung from the rafters.) Beats all kinda hell out of the tangle of telephones selling for five bucks. But, I dunno, it's h

  August 12, 2009

• Only Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Could Build A Palace Big Enough To Match His Larger-Than-Life Persona

  September 10, 2009

• Texas Stadium: Rest in Peace. Er, Pieces.

  Don't know if I'll be able to watch when Texas Stadium's memories are reduced to mush.​Spent yesterday afternoon out at Cowboys Stadium, where about 30 mayors - from Southlake to Sunnyvale - convened for an update as to the goings-on about Super Bowl XLV. By the way, 445 days and counting ... I was there hounding Roger Staubach about an upcoming Dallas Observer cover story and, to be honest, I'm never comfortable in a room with that many politicians. But I did have an interesting chat w

  November 17, 2009

• R.I.P, Reunion Arena: My Eulogy (Extended Remix Version).

  I officially grew old yesterday afternoon. Once you've seen the rise and fall of a sports stadium, you've officially, um, been around the block. I remember a kinder, gentler era in Dallas when as a little punk I'd peer out the family Fury along I-35 and gaze in wonderment at The Sportatorium, P.C. Cobb Stadium and a futuristic construction site dedicated to a dazzling new structure to be called Reunion Arena. The Sportatorium is a vacant, dreary lot. Cobb is the InfoMart. And, after

  November 18, 2009