Texas Stadium

In Case You Wondered What It Was Like Inside Texas Stadium When It Blew ...

Sure. You've seen the implosion of Texas Stadium from the parking lot. And in super-slow-mo. But thanks to the heads-up from USA Today, you can now witness it ... from inside Texas Stadium.

Texas Stadium: Rest in Pieces

  You know it's a weird week when Mike Modano's final home game as a Dallas Star is only the second-saddest story. Went out to Texas Stadium Sunday morning for a funeral and - hate to admit this - but I cried. For a building. I know, silly. Or is it? Just after dawn - 7:07 a.m. if yo ... More >>

What It Might Have Looked Like If Michael Bay Blew Up Texas Stadium

No doubt you've seen Texas Stadium's adios a thousand times from 100 different angles since yesterday's implosion. But this morning, in the comments to Patrick and Nick's stills-and-video round-up posted first thing Sunday, Jeremiah Warren of Shoot Smash Boom sent word that he'd captured the whole t ... More >>

Implosions in the Sky: One Last Great Memory from Texas Stadium

Patrick Michels​The first blasts shot up at 7 this morning, setting off car alarms and cheers and waking up Sunday sleepers for miles -- and those were just the pre-implosion fireworks. Minutes later the real show began, as a series of dynamite blasts horseshoed around Texas Stadium, throwing up a ... More >>

Whitt's End: 4.9.10

​Whether you're at the end of your rope or merely the end of your rope, welcome to Whitt's End: *Don't care if you're a puckhead or merely a fan of storybook endings, you had to have been moved (to tears?) by Mike Modano's swan song at American Airlines Center Thursday night. In his final hom ... More >>

After the Explosion: How Irving Might Wind Up Using Texas Stadium Site

One of the early conceptual renderings for the Texas Stadium site, before officials decided to blow it up real good​Patrick will be along shortly with some photos and observations from today's final final media tour of what remains of Texas Stadium before the big blow-em-up on April 11. (Hey, ther ... More >>

At Texas Stadium Today, A Few Former Dallas Cowboys Paid Their Last Respects

Patrick MichelsNate Newton remembered his time at Texas Stadium: "I lived in an unreal world for 13 years."​A couple weeks ago, you may recall, we brought you a look inside what's left of Texas Stadium, which, to our eyes, looked just about ready to come down.Not about to let the stadium go quietl ... More >>

Clearly, Everything Gets a Logo These Days, Even Stuff About to Get Blowed Up

​Impossible to retrace the myriad steps that led me here this morning: to The Official Texas Stadium Implosion Web site, where you'll find a lengthy video shot inside the joint during Tuesday's media show-and-tell. I must say: This is a logo I can get behind: The artwork's playfully retro (like fe ... More >>

Texas Stadium Has Only 26 Days to Live

​Maybe I'm a sentimental old fool, but I'm going to miss the iconic eyesore called Texas Stadium. I'm all for progress and upgrades and the future-is-now and I love Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, but I saw a story on the news last night about the preparations being made to blow up Texas Stadiu ... More >>

With Less Than A Month To Go, Texas Stadium is Getting Fitted for its Dynamite

Patrick Michels​On April 11, Texas Stadium's going to be one great big pile of roof-and-buttress rubble and, to hear the City of Irving tell it, some of the prime real estate the DFW region has to offer.The explosives will take about a minute to detonate, beginning sometime around 6:30 or 7 a.m. - ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV: Century in the Making

​In Texas, the old saying goes, there exist only two sports: Football. And spring football. God, after all, decreed Texas Stadium have a hole in its roof so he could look down upon his favorite team. Right? From the old wooden Fair Park Bowl through the Cotton Bowl, Texas Stadium and now the ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 fou ... More >>

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 ... More >>

George Stadium

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 wee ... More >>

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 int ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 N ... More >>

Texas Stadium Deserved a Fonder Farewell Than This

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 b ... More >>

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 Lan ... More >>

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 y ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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.& ... More >>

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, y ... More >>

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. ... More >>

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 memora ... More >>

If Only Jerry Jones' Wrapping Paper Could Throw a Football

A Luksa Back at Texas Stadium

And Awaaaay We Go

Be Seated

The Inflatable Helmet Is Being Inflated

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

Excitebike 2008

Motocross hits Texas Stadium

Corporate Cowboys

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

Super Duper

Fair Park is the New Baltic Avenue

Best Sports Venue

Texas Stadium

Down & Dirty

To the extreme

Wing, No Prayer

Texas Stadium hears what it sounds like when doves cry

Cattle call

1998 Best of Dallas

Sports

Wrestling With Tragedy

As the sole survivor of his family's ring dynasty, Kevin Von Erich struggles to keep a painful past alive.

Bad Judgement

State District Judge John Marshall is snared in allegations of misconduct

Buzz

Letters

60,000 naked men

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

Evil's triumph at Texas Stadium

Blesses are the Cheeseheads - even if they didn't make it to the Super Bowl