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in dollars) |Cost of demolished = $6 Million |architect = A. Warren Morey |general_contractor = JW Bateson Co., Inc. |former_names = |tenants = Dallas Cowboys (NFL) (1971-2008) Dallas Tornado (NASL) (1972-1975, 1980-1981) SMU Mustangs (NCAA) (1979-1986) |seating_capacity = 65,675 }} Texas Stadium was an American football stadium located in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Opened on September 17, it was the home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys for 38 seasons, from 1971 through 2008, and had a seating capacity of 65,675. In 2009, the stadium was replaced as home of the Cowboys by the $1.15 billion AT&T Stadium in Arlington, which officially opened on May 27. Texas Stadium was demolished by a controlled implosion on April 11, 2010. ==History== The Cowboys had played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas since their inception in 1960. However, by the mid-1960s, founding owner Clint Murchison, Jr. realized that the Fair Park area of the city had become unsafe and downtrodden, and it was not a location he wanted his season ticket holders to be forced to go through.〔Shropshire, 1997 pg. 138-139〕 Murchison was denied a request by mayor Erik Jonsson to build a new stadium in downtown Dallas as part of a municipal bond package.〔Shropshire, 1997 pg. 139〕 Murchison envisioned a new stadium with sky boxes and one in which attendees would have to pay a personal seat license as a prerequisite to purchasing season tickets.〔Shropshire, 1997 pg. 139-140〕 With two games left for the Cowboys to play in the 1967 season, Murchison and Cowboys general manager Tex Schramm announced a plan to build a new stadium in the northwest suburb of Irving.〔 Texas Stadium, along with Arrowhead Stadium (1972), Rich Stadium (1973), and the Pontiac Silverdome (1975), were part of a new wave of football-only stadiums (all with artificial turf) built after the AFL–NFL merger. More so than its contemporaries, Texas Stadium featured a proliferation of luxury boxes, which provided the team with a large new income source exempt from league revenue sharing. The stadium became an icon of the Cowboys with their rise in national prominence. In its first season in 1971, the Cowboys entered as defending NFC champions and won their first world title in Super Bowl VI in January 1972. The field was surrounded by a blue wall emblazoned with white stars, a design replicated in its successor, AT&T Stadium. Texas Stadium's field alignment (between the goal posts) was southwest-to-northeast, perpendicular to the Cotton Bowl, which is southeast-to-northwest. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Texas Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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