If weather permits and they throw open the big top on Cowboys Stadium for Super Bowl XLV in 2011, don’t be surprised if some in attendance swear they see a large smile forming in the sky directly overhead.
Somewhere up there, Lamar Hunt has bragging rights.
The man who originally dubbed the NFL title game between the NFC and AFC champs “the Super Bowl” might be North Texas’...
Dan Petty and the North Texas Commission will have their fingerprints all over the first Super Bowl XLV football that soars through the Cowboys Stadium air come February 2011.
All along, Petty has helped guide the flight of the North Texas Super Bowl efforts. But come game day? He will not just be...
On a given Sunday, the passions of Super Bowl XLV will rock a stadium in Arlington and enthrall a worldwide television audience. But the fruits of those passions could impact the North Texas business community long after the game has come and gone.
That’s Robbie Douglas’ game plan. And it’s also...
The year 2011 may seem off in the hazy distance to some. But Super Bowl XLV is on a fast course, as odd as it sounds, rolling toward North Texas like a huge, beautiful storm.
Tara Green and Kit Sawers are just back...
Let the records show the economic impact study for the greater Houston area for Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004 was $340 million. Talk about the green, green grass of home.
For the Super Bowl in Miami in ’07, it was $400 million. For Phoenix in ’08, $500 million.
These figures are not determined by sliding one’s fingers into a big spinning barrel and selecting the lucky winner. They...
Emmitt Smith remembers the first time he saw North Texas, skyscrapers glowing in a tar black sky.
The Cowboys had drafted him in 1990 out of Florida, his home state, following a horrible 1-15 season. They had a heavily-battered young...
Close your eyes and listen. Can you hear it?
The rumble on the field.
The roar of the band.
The fans’ frenzy as the Frogs finish off yet another opponent.
You can probably smell the hot dogs, too.
After all, Amon G. Carter Stadium is one of those places where the sights, sounds and smells never leave your memory. When it opened in 1930, awestruck onlookers...
Super Bowl XLV may still be better than 600 days off, but the game will pass a significant milestone this week when its home – Cowboys Stadium in Arlington – holds its first event. Saturday night a capacity crowd is expected to listen to the music of country icon George Strait.
With the new venue ready to welcome its first guests, it again begs the question, just how big is this billion...
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