This is a story about a guy who didn’t have anything to do – he thought.
Well, let me start off by saying that back in the 1950’s and ’60s and so forth like that, you didn’t have a radio station that carried State football games. You had a guy in the Panhandle who actually did the ballgames put the staff together and all of that. Everything was contracted by Shamrock Radio Network. Believe it or not, I did the State Championship game in 1977. Brownwood lost the State Championship game to Dickenson and it was 40-20 something. It wasn’t close. That was a sign that some other people could do the ballgames beside this guy in the Panhandle, and of course back then you had neutral sites. That was the way the thing crumbled back in 1977. I guess it worked, nobody had any other ideas.
Then, they started doing the games – I don’t know how they did it to be honest with you – until Jerry Jones got involved. Jerry got involved and they did all six games, including Six Man Football, so eight games total at Cowboy Stadium. Anyway, everything seemed to be glorious as far as the Cowboys are concerned, or Cowboy Stadium, and they drew huge crowds. I mean huge crowds! Then, they decided to go to Houston and had no crowd, went back to Dallas, and will supposedly be in Dallas forever. Everything will be happy, and it was for a few years.
Now, it’s gone aside. It’s become something else and the UIL has announced that the Cowboy Stadium contract, which looked like it was going to be a permanent thing, won’t even run through next year. Now it may, but it is on hold. So the Cowboy Stadium deal is good for one more year in and then in 2026 they are going to re-examine the thing to see if it’s the Cowboys or nothing.
Gee, that’s kind of a shock to me. I thought the Cowboys were in it for good. So, I don’t know. They may put six man and about half the games in Houston or San Antonio, I don’t know. I’m kind of in shock. It’s not supposed to change but it will change beginning in 2026.
It will change permanently? I don’t know now. There’s a committee heading this up.
I don’t know anything beyond what they are saying. I do know that
State games are going to be once again at Cowboy Stadium in 2026 and that’s it as far as I know. As far as what the Cowboys are going to do – what the UIL is going to do – is anybody’s guess.
Until next time, so long everybody.
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‘Out of the Box’ with Dallas Huston is published each Monday morning at BrownwoodNews.com. Dallas was the radio voice of the Brownwood Lions and Howard Payne Yellow Jackets for more than 55 years. He currently is Pastor of Center City Baptist Church and hosts a Men’s Bible Study in Brownwood on Monday evenings. Your comments are welcome at [email protected].