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09-24-2010, 08:53 AM
By Nick Gholson (http://www.timesrecordnews.com/staff/nick-gholson/)
Times Record News Posted September 24, 2010 at 12:46 a.m.
Some 30,000 people showed up at the Cotton Bowl on a beautiful Saturday evening back in 1960.
Curiosity, more than anything else, brought them there more than anything else.
Back then the NFL had no fan base in Dallas or any other town in Texas. We fed our football craving at high school games on Friday nights and maybe a college game on Saturday.
Sunday was the Lord’s Day.
So the half empty Cotton Bowl back on Sept. 24, 1960 — exactly 50 years ago today — turned out to be the biggest home crowd of the year. Just 10,000 showed up to see the final home game that season.
Understandable. The Cowboys didn’t win one game that year.
The team was mostly castoffs from other NFL teams.
That first Cowboys’ roster was formed from an expansion draft in which they scraped up the best players they could find at the bottom of each team’s barrel.
Read more: http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2010/sep/24/a-lot-has-changed-in-50-years-for-dallas/
Times Record News Posted September 24, 2010 at 12:46 a.m.
Some 30,000 people showed up at the Cotton Bowl on a beautiful Saturday evening back in 1960.
Curiosity, more than anything else, brought them there more than anything else.
Back then the NFL had no fan base in Dallas or any other town in Texas. We fed our football craving at high school games on Friday nights and maybe a college game on Saturday.
Sunday was the Lord’s Day.
So the half empty Cotton Bowl back on Sept. 24, 1960 — exactly 50 years ago today — turned out to be the biggest home crowd of the year. Just 10,000 showed up to see the final home game that season.
Understandable. The Cowboys didn’t win one game that year.
The team was mostly castoffs from other NFL teams.
That first Cowboys’ roster was formed from an expansion draft in which they scraped up the best players they could find at the bottom of each team’s barrel.
Read more: http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2010/sep/24/a-lot-has-changed-in-50-years-for-dallas/