Video: The Implosion of Texas Stadium

At 7:07 a.m. CDT on April 11, 2010, a local kid involved in charity work pressed the button to cause the demolition. From the first explosion, it took approximately 25 seconds for the stadium to completely fall.

Farewell, Texas Stadium. Thanks For The Memories. God can now watch his favorite team play football in the fanciest stadium on the planet, Cowboys Stadium.

Baltimore Ravens Win Last Game At Texas Stadium

The Baltimore Ravens weren't supposed to crash this party at Texas Stadium.

They did it anyway.

The Baltimore Ravens pulled off a stunning 33-24 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in the last game ever played in Texas Stadium.

Matt Stover kicked four field goals to wipe out an early deficit, then Willis McGahee and Le’Ron McClain ripped off long, record breaking touchdown runs each time the Cowboys cut the defecit to just two points in the final minutes. The loss spelled doom for the Cowboys playoff hopes and head coach Wade Phillips' hope of a future with the team beyond this season.


The loss by the Cowboys clinched a playoff spot for the Carolina Panthers, who play the Giants tonight to determine who will get homefield advantage throughout the NFC playoffs.

The Cowboys are dead. There is no way they will beat a resurgent Eagles team in Philly next week. No chance, especially with a hobbled Tony Romo under center. Romo's reputation as a big game choker will only get bigger after these two losses.

Once the Cowboys are officially eliminated, Wade Phillips will be fired and replaced with Jason Garrett. The handwriting has been on the wall ever since Garrett was about to take the job as Ravens head coach last season.

John Harbaugh gets my vote as Coach of the year. Joe Flacco should be the rookie of the year. Flacco actually played better in this game than Tony Romo! Flacco made smart decisions like throwing the ball away instead of forcing it into coverage,like Romo did.

The Cowboys defense, which looked good early, choked at the two most important parts of the game, on those two long touchdown runs. It looked like, on both times, McClain and McGahee ran past the run blitzers! Inexcusable defense also cost Dallas this game.

The Dallas Cowboys can now say they have something in common with the New York Mets.

They both choked away their playoff hopes in their home stadium finales.

Big Game Tonight On NFL Network!

A pair of 10-1 teams will meet tonight at Texas Stadium when the Dallas Cowboys host the Green Bay Packers. The winner takes a one-game lead in the race for home-field advantage in the playoffs and the tiebreaker. Packers quarterback Brett Favre has never won in eight games on the Cowboys' home turf.

Many fans will not be able to see the game. It's on the NFL Network, which has been in a dispute with large cable providers. The network is available in about 35 million of the nation's more than 111 million homes with televisions.

With their five Super Bowl trophies and the "America's Team" label they treat like a birthright, it's easy to forget the Dallas Cowboys were once nothing more than wannabes who kept getting turned away by Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers.

To call their early meetings a rivalry wouldn't be fair to the Packers. They were the kings of the NFL and Tom Landry's Cowboys were just another team aiming for the crown.

Drama arrived in 1967 with championship games played on the very first day of the year and the very, very frigid finale. Both games were decided by one play in the final half-minute. Green Bay came through both times, then went on to beat the AFL champions in the first two Super Bowls.

The Dallas-Green Bay rivalry moves into a third generation Thursday night, when Favre and the 10-1 Packers visit Texas Stadium to face Tony Romo and the 10-1 Cowboys.

The winner moves a game up in the race for home-field advantage in the playoffs and gets the tiebreaker, making it a two-game lead with four to play. What it really means is that this game could determine whether the NFC championship — which could be yet another high-stakes Dallas-Green Bay game — is played at Texas Stadium or Lambeau Field.

Favre is 0-8 at Texas Stadium, having lost every regular season and postseason matchup from 1993-95, then again in '96, when the Packers were headed to their first Super Bowl title since the late '60s. He lost one more in '99 and hasn't been back since.

If You Can watch the game on NFL Network, Great! If You can't, listen to the game on the radio or go to a friend's house who has NFL Network. Just Keep up with the game! It's gonna be great!

My Pick for the game:
DALLAS OVER GREEN BAY