When I went to Texas Stadium for Cowboys and when my high school played playoff games there, you would see the age. The metal roof was growing mold. The paint was fading. When it got cold, when you went through entrances to get to your seat,you could feel that cold blast hit you like a punch. It was worse when you exited from the game. When it rained there all these puddles and leaks from the stadium. It just got old. The scoreboard was from the 1980's, the video board was old too. The sad thing is once the stadium was imploded, the land was used for construction equipment storage for the interchange expansion to Loop 12 and state highway 183. ALL that was FINALLY done a few months ago in 2024. Now most of the land at Texas Stadium and across the highway is just left empty.
One of my Aunts worked there as a tour guide for a few years. I only attended one Cowboys game there (and to date has been the only Cowboys game I’ve ever been to) back in 2008. It was a preseason game. I saw nothing wrong with the facility. I kind of liked it. Yeah, it could’ve used a few upgrades. But it was an icon. I wished the city of Irving would’ve kept it and used it for other events and high school football. Every time I pass by the site of where it was, I still anticipate seeing it there in between the 183/I-35/loop 12 triangle. What’s crazy is that the parking lot billboards that were on those three corners of the property are still there to this day.
The first event held in Texas Stadium was a Billy Graham Crusade, held shortly after completion of construction. I was about 7 at the time, but the memory lingers on. My family and I sat up in the second level. And of course I went to a few Cowboys' game. A few were with my church's youth group, and a few I was with several Key Club (Kiwanas group for high school students) members from different Dallas area high schools. Tom Landry, The Coach, and Roger Staubach as quarterback. The good ole days.
I remember watching SportsCenter on ESPN highlights from the crazy 1994 high school playoff game between the Plano East Panthers and the John Tyler Lions. The Panthers made an insane comeback with a series of recovered onside kicks to claim an improbable lead, only to blow the game when the Lions returned the conventional kickoff for the game winning score. The crazy broadcast featured the coach waiting to play the winner expressing his disgust after the comeback attempt failed in heartbreaking fashion.
@@ShokuTasumiSpeedprince So why are modern stadiums always disposable? It all goes back to Metropolitan Stadium. That one was never finished; they simply stopped building it. They never cleaned or maintained it. By the late 70s, it was rusted and falling apart. They let it get that way as an excuse to demand a dome. If I had owned the Twins back then, I would have rebuilt the whole thing one section at a time and told the Vikings they can have their crummy dome. Then I would have maintained it so it would last 100 years, as it should.
It's not a bad video. Next time, just tell us to go to Wikipedia. You failed to mention the crown on the field, so the water would run off. Get some better music, too!
5:16 Paul McCartney. Sorry guys 🤣
When I went to Texas Stadium for Cowboys and when my high school played playoff games there, you would see the age. The metal roof was growing mold. The paint was fading. When it got cold, when you went through entrances to get to your seat,you could feel that cold blast hit you like a punch. It was worse when you exited from the game. When it rained there all these puddles and leaks from the stadium. It just got old. The scoreboard was from the 1980's, the video board was old too. The sad thing is once the stadium was imploded, the land was used for construction equipment storage for the interchange expansion to Loop 12 and state highway 183. ALL that was FINALLY done a few months ago in 2024. Now most of the land at Texas Stadium and across the highway is just left empty.
One of my Aunts worked there as a tour guide for a few years. I only attended one Cowboys game there (and to date has been the only Cowboys game I’ve ever been to) back in 2008. It was a preseason game. I saw nothing wrong with the facility. I kind of liked it. Yeah, it could’ve used a few upgrades. But it was an icon. I wished the city of Irving would’ve kept it and used it for other events and high school football. Every time I pass by the site of where it was, I still anticipate seeing it there in between the 183/I-35/loop 12 triangle. What’s crazy is that the parking lot billboards that were on those three corners of the property are still there to this day.
Can't forget the beginning of Debby Does Dallas was filmed there. 😂
I miss that place. I remember going to watch them in their prime on a Monday Night when they beat the Atlanta Falcons in the 90s.
The first event held in Texas Stadium was a Billy Graham Crusade, held shortly after completion of construction. I was about 7 at the time, but the memory lingers on. My family and I sat up in the second level. And of course I went to a few Cowboys' game. A few were with my church's youth group, and a few I was with several Key Club (Kiwanas group for high school students) members from different Dallas area high schools.
Tom Landry, The Coach, and Roger Staubach as quarterback. The good ole days.
Fantastic video man. Appreciate your effort and research. Keep going!
@@alecblanco6181 It’s comments like these that keep me going forward. Thank you bro.
I remember watching SportsCenter on ESPN highlights from the crazy 1994 high school playoff game between the Plano East Panthers and the John Tyler Lions. The Panthers made an insane comeback with a series of recovered onside kicks to claim an improbable lead, only to blow the game when the Lions returned the conventional kickoff for the game winning score. The crazy broadcast featured the coach waiting to play the winner expressing his disgust after the comeback attempt failed in heartbreaking fashion.
Texas Stadium always reminds me of the opening titles of Dallas.
There was nothing wrong with it. Fenway Park is 112 years old, and the Red Sox think it will last until 2061.
@@davidlafleche1142 Agreed.
Fenway park and wriggley field they are the exceptions not the rule
@@ShokuTasumiSpeedprince So why are modern stadiums always disposable? It all goes back to Metropolitan Stadium. That one was never finished; they simply stopped building it. They never cleaned or maintained it. By the late 70s, it was rusted and falling apart. They let it get that way as an excuse to demand a dome.
If I had owned the Twins back then, I would have rebuilt the whole thing one section at a time and told the Vikings they can have their crummy dome. Then I would have maintained it so it would last 100 years, as it should.
I went there a lot. I miss it.
The ghost of Texas Stadium Past forever haunts the Cowboys 👻 🏟️🏈
I spent A LOT of my life in that stadium growing up in the 1980s
the new stadium should have built in Dallas proper, but mayor Laura Miller botched it
2:17 #78
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Ahhh, so that's why this video was recommended to me 😂
@@Alexwhatisit Nooo it’s cuz the algo wants you to subscribe 🤩
Jerry Jones paid more than 5 million dollars for Cowboys Stadium
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Cotton Bowl better than all these new stadiums
It's not a bad video. Next time, just tell us to go to Wikipedia. You failed to mention the crown on the field, so the water would run off. Get some better music, too!