Brian Damage
04-11-2010, 01:04 PM
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/columns/story?columnist=luksa_frank&id=5066564&sport=nfl
Sunday morning in Irving, Texas many may have heard a loud bang after the Texas Stadium implosion took place at 7:08 am. The stadium implosion was set off by 11 year old Casey Rogers winner of a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese essay contest. There were 55 detonations that took place half a second apart to bring the stadium to the ground. The Texas Stadium implosion took place as a few thousand onlookers had a tail-gate style party to commemorate the event.
The Dallas Cowboys played in the Texas Stadium up until the last football season when they moved over to the state of the art Cowboy’s Stadium. The Texas Stadium Implosion took place this morning after six months of planning. The Texas Stadium implosion took only a few short seconds to occur and everything went according to plan. It was evident after the new Cowboy’s Stadium opening that the Texas Stadium would be demolished.
Texas Stadium opened in 1971 and had a capacity for 65,675 fans. The stadium was originally designed to be a closed dome, but with the lack of funding it was left open in the field area. The stadium cost $35 million dollars to build a far cry from the $1.15 billion it cost to build the new Cowboy’s Stadium. With the Texas Stadium implosion now complete the city of Irving, Texas has a big clean up ahead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JjV61zYRkE
Sunday morning in Irving, Texas many may have heard a loud bang after the Texas Stadium implosion took place at 7:08 am. The stadium implosion was set off by 11 year old Casey Rogers winner of a Kraft Macaroni and Cheese essay contest. There were 55 detonations that took place half a second apart to bring the stadium to the ground. The Texas Stadium implosion took place as a few thousand onlookers had a tail-gate style party to commemorate the event.
The Dallas Cowboys played in the Texas Stadium up until the last football season when they moved over to the state of the art Cowboy’s Stadium. The Texas Stadium Implosion took place this morning after six months of planning. The Texas Stadium implosion took only a few short seconds to occur and everything went according to plan. It was evident after the new Cowboy’s Stadium opening that the Texas Stadium would be demolished.
Texas Stadium opened in 1971 and had a capacity for 65,675 fans. The stadium was originally designed to be a closed dome, but with the lack of funding it was left open in the field area. The stadium cost $35 million dollars to build a far cry from the $1.15 billion it cost to build the new Cowboy’s Stadium. With the Texas Stadium implosion now complete the city of Irving, Texas has a big clean up ahead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JjV61zYRkE