WoodysGirl
04-09-2010, 10:07 PM
Texas Stadium to come tumbling down (http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post/_/id/12914/texas-stadium-to-come-tumbling-down)
April, 9, 2010 Apr 9
9:00
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By Matt Mosley
I was 10 years old when I saw my first Dallas Cowboys game at Texas Stadium on Oct. 9, 1983, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/clubhouse?team=tam). Dallas staved off the winless Bucs when fullback Timmy Newsome took a short pass from Danny White and turned it into a 52-yard touchdown with less than a minute left in regulation (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/cowboys/classic/recordbook/yearbyyear/1983/101083buccaneers.html). Rafael Septien won the game in overtime with a 42-yard field goal.
At halftime, Roger Staubach was inducted into the Cowboys' famed Ring of Honor. It was a remarkable afternoon and White paid tribute to Staubach with his late heroics and huge passing day. On Thursday, I drove by the iconic stadium for the last time. I'm not really the sentimental type, but it was a little strange to imagine how dramatically the landscape will change when Texas Stadium is imploded Sunday at 7 a.m. ET.
This is where I watched a couple of amazing SMU-Baylor games in the early 1980s, when the Pony Express was facing off with linebacker Mike Singletary. And in Nov. 1996, I took my future wife on our first date at -- where else -- Texas Stadium. I believe Lake Highlands High School hung on to beat Waco High in a playoff game that day.
Here's another favorite memory (http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4667412/stadium-flashback-working-the-sideline) of Texas Stadium that I wrote about for ESPNDallas.com on Thursday. And by the way, you can watch the implosion live on ESPN3.com (http://espn.go.com/espn3/ro ) on Sunday morning from 7-9 a.m. ET. I'm not particularly interested in watching the implosion, in part, because waking up at 5 a.m. local time doesn't seem all that appealing on a Sunday.
Cowboys Stadium is already one of the most recognizable facilities in the nation. But for several generations of Cowboys fans, Texas Stadium holds a lot of memories.
April, 9, 2010 Apr 9
9:00
AM ET
By Matt Mosley
I was 10 years old when I saw my first Dallas Cowboys game at Texas Stadium on Oct. 9, 1983, against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/clubhouse?team=tam). Dallas staved off the winless Bucs when fullback Timmy Newsome took a short pass from Danny White and turned it into a 52-yard touchdown with less than a minute left in regulation (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/football/cowboys/classic/recordbook/yearbyyear/1983/101083buccaneers.html). Rafael Septien won the game in overtime with a 42-yard field goal.
At halftime, Roger Staubach was inducted into the Cowboys' famed Ring of Honor. It was a remarkable afternoon and White paid tribute to Staubach with his late heroics and huge passing day. On Thursday, I drove by the iconic stadium for the last time. I'm not really the sentimental type, but it was a little strange to imagine how dramatically the landscape will change when Texas Stadium is imploded Sunday at 7 a.m. ET.
This is where I watched a couple of amazing SMU-Baylor games in the early 1980s, when the Pony Express was facing off with linebacker Mike Singletary. And in Nov. 1996, I took my future wife on our first date at -- where else -- Texas Stadium. I believe Lake Highlands High School hung on to beat Waco High in a playoff game that day.
Here's another favorite memory (http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4667412/stadium-flashback-working-the-sideline) of Texas Stadium that I wrote about for ESPNDallas.com on Thursday. And by the way, you can watch the implosion live on ESPN3.com (http://espn.go.com/espn3/ro ) on Sunday morning from 7-9 a.m. ET. I'm not particularly interested in watching the implosion, in part, because waking up at 5 a.m. local time doesn't seem all that appealing on a Sunday.
Cowboys Stadium is already one of the most recognizable facilities in the nation. But for several generations of Cowboys fans, Texas Stadium holds a lot of memories.