Favorite Texas Stadium Moments

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Mustang76

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Fun article about Texas Stadium.
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I will always remember when Reggie White tossed the Cowboys Rt. Tackle (Name I can't remember his name) with his right hand after a great outside inside move. I will always be a Poke fan but I loved Reggie White. I actually wasn't a big fan of the stadium but there sure are some neat memories. I think it's amazing that Danny White threw the most TD passes in the stadium.
 
2006, Euless Trinity vs Southlake Carroll, 2nd round of 5A D1 playoffs. Phenominal crowd for 2nd of 3 games that day. Trinity loses late lead following questionable call for fake punt inside their own 30.
All the memorable Cowboy games took place somewhere else. Leon Lett in the Thanksgiving Sleet Bowl does stand out. I'm sure I was watching Clint Longly go deep on the Deadskins in "The game of the Uncluttered Mind", I just remember that game from highlights.
 
For me I was in 7th grade, living in Plano and my two step-brothers played for the Plano team that came back and beat Highland Park 29-28, Plano vs Port Neches largest crowed ever to see a highschool game something like 60,000 and don't forget PESH and John Tyler. I also got to play Highlang Park there and in 82 Irving School Stadium was being redone so we moved our spring game there. Big Fun
 
My favorite moment was when George Teague blasted TO for dissrespecting the Star. Emmitt's kneel down on the star is a very close second....My favorite moment being in Texas Stadium was this year watching a Drunk 49'ers fan talk trash to a Father and Son, watching both of them having to be held back by family for not going after him, then watching his drunk girlfriend show up and talk more trash, putting her finger in the Father's face while talking trash. The Father and Son got the last laugh because security finally showed up and ofcourse the drunk 49'er fan was smart enough to shut up and go quietly. Unfortunately his drunk girlfriend was not as smart and had to be placed in a choke hold by a female cop while the male cop handcuffed her and took her away. The fans gave them a loud ovation as they departed....
 
In person is a tie. Had seen 1 pre season game at the Cotton Bowl. Then my Dad took me on my 16th birthday.
October 30, 1972. The 1st Monday night game in Texas Stadium. Just waking in to then state of the art, uniquely designed facillity with the hole in the roof I was an awe struck teenager. The other thrill of the night for me was just being in the same stadium with my hero Dandy Don Meredith (of course he was in the booth). The Boys beat the Lions 28-24. Craig Morton was QB (I think Staubach was injured). Leapin Calvin Hill was the RB. Still have the ticket stub.
Cost of admission? $7.00. (it was an endzone seat).
The other game had to be in the mid 70's. Still have that stub too but the date/cost 1/2 was torn off. Very cold. 50 yard line seats in the nosebleed section. Watched my other hero (yes Bob Lilly I loved you too) Walt Garrison have his biggest rushing day as a Cowboy, about 130 yds I think, including the longest run of his career - 40 yds or a little over. All this leading a 2nd half come from behind whoopin over the washington deadskins.
TV games run together with age. Duane Thomas ploughin thru tacklers. Staubach's comebacks. Harris/Waters interceptions. TD. The Manster. Aikman, Emmitt. I could go on. Thanksgivings, Playoffs, anytime they beat the slime ball low life eagles............ Yes I bleed Silver-Blue at the Pro Level but I did like the Oilers & the Tyler Rose too.
 
fireguy5455":28s5udzi said:
For me I was in 7th grade, living in Plano and my two step-brothers played for the Plano team that came back and beat Highland Park 29-28, Plano vs Port Neches largest crowed ever to see a highschool game something like 60,000 and don't forget PESH and John Tyler. I also got to play Highlang Park there and in 82 Irving School Stadium was being redone so we moved our spring game there. Big Fun
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I too was at the Plano-Highland Park Game...

Anyone remember the guy dressed in the Gorilla suit that caught on fire,the guy had a can of strono[sp?]
 
strangly my only texas stadium moment was 1988.....i saw pink floyd there
but before they dimmed the lights i got an eyefull, the ring of honor etc
and could tell it was a special place

and the only time i have seen the cowboys play was in 1977, i was visiting my father
who lived in alameda (near oakland) and he got us tickets to a monday night game
dallas V san francisco in candlestick park...it was great, that was back when
hollywood henderson and that bunch was playing and if i recall right
dallas won 42-35.

it looks like 1977 was my first and last cowboys game i will see, i never intend to
set foot in "king jerry's wonderland" even with free super bowl tickets, those money
hungry *&^%$# might as well have built the entire thing with suites and no chairs
at all.......besides the same thing will happen like when the stars moved from reunion to
"tommies taj mahal". reunion was a fun beer and hot dog kind of place where AAC
is the wine & cheese set. i have watched the stars in both and i'll take the noisy
rowdiness of reunion anytime, the stars at AAC is kinda like sitting and watching the piano
player at nordstrom's while your wife is trying on shoes.

i need a valium now................good night 8)
 
I had some strange moments in there too. I was also at the Pink Floyd show. I also went to one of the strike games in the 1987 season. I think it was against the Eagles and I remember walking past the picket lines.

My favorite moment was in 1995 watching Judson play Odessa Permian. It was a game between two classic teams. I was asked to be the 'red cap' for TV (the guy who stands on the field during timeouts) but turned it down because I needed to leave immediately after the game. I stayed on the field for most of the game and was standing at the edge of the tunnel as time ran down. The Permian qb threw an int in the final seconds and I ran up the tunnel, out of the stadium and hauled to Sweetwater as fast as I could to catch the Amherst-Milford rematch... that was a good day. 5A DI and 6-man championships all in one day.
 
Some of us on this board, well at least one of us, can remember back to the first Cowboy Game in the stadium played October 24th 1971. Duane Thomas scored the first TD on a 56 yard run very early in the game. Both Staubach and Morton played QB that day. By the way, Jim Plunkett was the QB for the Patriots that day.
 
Easy for me and it has nothing to do with the Cowboys... 1995, mid - December... Class AAA semifinals... we tied and still lost by about 3 yards...
 
My son and I had tickets in the endzone on row 1 right by the tunnel where all the cheerleaders and mascots came out. We were playing Washington. We saw Crazy Ray who had to ride around on a cart. In between camera fights Crazy Ray and the Redskins mascot would talk and laugh. My son was amazed that they seemed to be friends. I had to explain to him that the only thing real going on was on the field. During the second quarter the Redskins mascot came up in the stands and sat with us for awhile. He was a lot of fun. During the game we saw Keyshawn Johnson catch a pass across the middle have his helmet ripped off and still run 15 yard punctuating the play by diving into a pile to gain one more yards. I had that play on video but my wife erased it by accident. Cowboys won the game. As we were leaving we saw Crazy Ray and the Redskins mascot leaving together.
 
I have been lucky enough to attend quiet a few games at Texas Stadium. The past 2 years I bought season tickets from a seller on Ebay, resold enough to pay for my cost and get to go to 2 regular season and 1 pre-season games last year and 2 regular season games this year for free. I was gonna go to the last game Saturday night but had to sell them at the last minute because had 2 many committments over the weekend, but am glad I did not witness in peson the Lifeless game my Cowboys played :(.....The Legends should have refused to participate in the closing cermonies since the Current Cowboys did not show up to play....
 
Well if we're including Highschool games & concerts... Moving the 1982 Bell-Trinity grudge match to Texas Stadium on 11/5/82 & watching my Blue Raiders beat Trinity 20-8. Then meeting them again on 12/3 of the same year in the playoff's to win on pentrations in a 14 all tie & go on to their only state title game (they lost, but they beat Trinity twice to get there).
Took a friend I worked with who was from Wisconsin, had never been to TX Stadium. When we walked in he just stopped & stared around & said Wow they do this for highschool?
In 96 I saw the Grapevine Mustangs my Dad played for in the 40's beat, I think Mount Pleasant there on the way to their 1st State Championship.
And then, does anyone else remember The Allman Brothers Southern Campagin playing there in June 74 (can't remember the other bands). In 80 The Fabulous Thunderbirds featuring Jimmy Vaughn opened for the Stones. 2-3-4 yrs later ZZ Top opened for them at another show. One of these featured Mick Jagger in a cherry picker swinging out over the audience while singing. The other it started raining, pretty hard 3-4 songs into the Stones set & he just kept on singing in the rain for an hour or so.
Then their was Tracy Lawrence & ? for free at a KSCS fan appreciation show. And a George Strait music Festival.
How long till Super Six Saturday in Hico?
 
fireguy5455":1duwvfv8 said:
For me I was in 7th grade, living in Plano and my two step-brothers played for the Plano team that came back and beat Highland Park 29-28, Plano vs Port Neches largest crowed ever to see a highschool game something like 60,000 and don't forget PESH and John Tyler. I also got to play Highlang Park there and in 82 Irving School Stadium was being redone so we moved our spring game there. Big Fun
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I too attended both of these games. The Plano/HP game still ranks as one of the greatest comebacks(along with Calverts in 02) I ever wittnessed. The PESH/ JT game I attended with my dad. The worst part of that game was that I talked my dad into leaving early to beat the traffic. We pulled in the driveway as PESH took the lead. My dad cussed me to the day he died every time some one brought that game up. Although I graduated from East some of my greatest memories are as a JH kid going to Plano Wildcat football games.
 
51eleven":1iqy3pm8 said:
Well if we're including Highschool games... Moving the 1982 Bell-Trinity grudge match to Texas Stadium on 11/5/82 & watching my Blue Raiders beat Trinity 20-8. Then meeting them again on 12/3 of the same year in the playoff's to win on pentrations in a 14 all tie & go on to their only state title game (they lost, but they beat Trinity twice to get there).
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51eleven:

Sounds like you may be a Bell grad? Those were two great games in Texas Stadium in '82.

I attended both and also Bell's disappointing loss in the state final that season. This gets away from the subject of Texas Stadium, actually in '82 I saw either Bell or Trinity play each week of the regular season and playoffs. Trinity upset the #1 rated team, at the time, Bryan, at old Pennington Field in a non-district regular season match up.

One could not ask for a better game than those of Bell and Trinity in '82. Another that comes to mind which I attended was the Trinity "upset" of Odessa Permian in Texas Stadium in the playoffs that season. Trinity scored late and converted the two point conversion for an 8-7 win and left Mojo faithful speechless. Permian came into that game way overconfident and ended up paying for it. Those Bell-Trinity games were most memorable but I have to say that Trinity win over Permian was probably my most memorable high school game at Texas Stadium.

I thought it interesting your comments about Bell-Trinity in '82. It was very rare that Bell and Trinity both had such good teams in the same season.
 
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