Texas Stadium to me means Landry’s Fedora, all the crazy Redskins games but especially Longley’s bomb, tough early games against Jim Hart’s Cardinals, Deacon Jones and the Rams, Vikings, Giants, etc…

I will definitely miss it.

I predict the Cowboys send the ol’ girl out in style… winning the old fashioned way with solid D and a persistent offense. Romo is due for a break-out game, and while the Raven’s D is formidable, I still think you could see it tonight.

Cowboys 27-10

It’s all Boys all the time today. Just watched the 95 NFC championship game and now they’re showing the 30 minute ‘95 SB. Almost forgot how great Robert Jones, Hennings, Tolbert, and Lett were in those games. Great way to ramp up for tonight’s festivities.

Texas Stadium IS Dallas Cowboys football. It’s gonna be hard to think of Cowboys games without that big rectangle of light slowly moving across the field. I know the new stadium has a similar hole with the roof retracted, but it won’t be the same. For one, there’ll be the shadow of a gigantic frikkin scoreboard. But as they say, onwards and upwards. I just dread the final name, it’s gonna be so… corporate.

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Got some idiot on the set right now saying Jason Witten and Tony Romo don’t like Owens.

Brad Sham is now giving it to Shefter! “since you were in a hurry to ask this question” Get em’ BRAD!

everybody has a home and this was ours for the longest. it’s where men bleed, sweat and became football gods. it’s where we denied a young favre from greatness (but he would soon reclaim it on another field). it’s where jimmy gained his name. where irvin became notorious. where aikman gutted opponents with ruthless efficiency. where the star was defended….

all things come to an end. and i’m not an emotional teary kind of guy. but i can certainly pour out a little liquor for texas stadium. i still get chills when i watch old games and hear pat summerall say, “we’re in texas stadium, live from irving, texas…”

Been a Cowboys’ fan since my dad told me what a football was, but I was able to visit it for the first (and last) time only this season. It’s not the prettiest or largest venue, of course, but the mystique of the place just takes your breath away. The new stadium will be awesome, but I’m looking forward to tonight for old times sake. RIP Texas Stadium!

The place is truly special and I consider myself very lucky to have stood on that star…absolutely priceless.

As awesome as the new stadium will be, I’ll really miss the Cowboys playing at Texas Stadium.

Is Texas Stadium the most recognizable structure in North Texas? Perhaps Reunion Tower has something to say about that. Does anyone know if Irving had firm plans to demo it?

….but I did manage to take a tour of the stadium this summer while I was in Irving for job training. Very awesome. It will be missed.

But I can’t let the last game in Texas Stadium’s history pass gently into that good night without a brief statement. I was born in 1971, same year that TS became home to Dallas, and I didn’t see many early glory days live or on TV, but the earliest memories I had of Dallas were Staubach to Pearson or Hill, and Dorsett breaking free for a TD. Randy White and Too Tall running down the QB. Danny White playing us into 3 straight NFC Championships, Herschel Walker running over defenses, Everson Walls intercepting passes from the great QB’s of the day. Bill Bates blowing up people on Special teams, the flyover of the stadium on the intro to the Drama TV show “Dallas”.

I’ve been to a few games at the old girl, during the Triplets heyday, and she probably wasn’t as great as she had been in days past by, but it was still an experience I’ll never forget. Maybe, some would say, even treasure. From the incredible shadow cast as the sun passed over her, to the Ring of Honor, to the unbelievable crown of the field.

Farewell Texas Stadium, I will never forget you. It took a Billion dollar stadium to replace you.