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MEDIA HOW I GOT THE HOOK
HOW I GOT THE HOOK OR, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A LOCAL SPORTSCASTER WRANGLES WITH A CERTAIN TEAM OWNER.
BY DALE HANSEN PUBLISHED IN
D MAGAZINE MARCH 1997
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MY PHONE RANG ONE THURSDAY MORNING IN EARLY December about 10 a.m. It was Bob Cooper, general manager at KVIL-FM. the station that had hired me to do color commentary for broadcast of the Dallas Cowboys games.
“Dale, are you sitting down?” Cooper asked.
Actually, I was still in bed. But I knew what was coming. “Go ahead,” I told Bob.
“I’m really sorry about this,” Cooper said, “but they want you off the air now.” He said Jerry Jones was very unhappy with all the controversy that was swarming around my association with the team and the fact that I would be quitting next year. “You’ve become the media moment,” Cooper said. “People in New York agree. You have to go.”
“OK, Bob,” I said, kind of flippantly. I’ve been fired before. This was not virgin territory. Cooper kept saying, “Dale, I ’m really sorry. Hopefully this thing will blow over and maybe in a couple of years, if you don’t bum any bridges here, then you can come back.”
“OK,” I said. “I understand, no problem.”
I felt…what? Disappointment, certainly. I had planned to announce during the final game of the regular season against the Washington Commanders at RFK that I was leaving the broadcast after the playoffs. I had told KVIL managers privately of my decision to quit, and they’d asked me to wait until then to make it public and I had agreed.
But I also felt relieved. The balancing act that I had maintained for more than 12 years-as the sports anchor for WFAA-TV Channel 8, the Cowboys’ radio analyst for KVIL and talk-show host for KLIF-AM-was finally over.
Though I’ve argued with sportswriters Randy Galloway and Skip Bayless for years that I could wear these different hats with out creating a conflict of interest, now I’m beginning to wonder if it’s possible to do so without creating confusion in the minds of both the team and the audience. I had worn these different hats successfully for years, most recently with the KLIF talk show. I could express opinions there I couldn’t-and wouldn’t- express as the team’s commentator or when reporting the news. Doing the talk show on KLIF gives me the freedom to express even more opintons that may have angered Jones and Switzer or whomever even more.
Still, looking back, I absolutely believe that the continuing deterioration of my relationship with Jones was directly attributable to coach Barry Switzer. Jones has always been able to deal with what I say. but I think he found himself in a defensive posture, trying to prop up Switzer. If it’s a choice between Dale Hansen and the head coach, I think that’s an easy choice to make.
My association with the team began in 1984. when the games were broadcast on KRLD. Channel 8 anchor Verne Lundquist, who had been announcing the games, had left Dallas for bigger things, so KRLD was auditioning different analysts to work with Brad Sham, who had been doing it for years. Cowboys general manager Tex Schramm always liked the idea of having the TV anchors identified with the Cowboys broadcast. I knew if I did well, I would get the job.
Marty Haag was news director for Channel 8. Marty said then that one of the things that he liked about me was that I was one of the
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