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As you know, I have gone to a lot of sporting events over the years. I enjoy everything about the experience–from the opening kickoff or pitch, to seeing kids laugh and smile during the game, to seeing a massive home run or slam dunk.
During the last four years I have been to Texas Stadium almost fifty times to see "America’s Team" play. During that time I have seen some amazing games. Last month I had the opportunity to watch the last game at Texas Stadium. The game featured the Dallas Cowboys and the Baltimore Ravens. I wish the outcome was different since the Cowboys didn’t win their last game at Texas stadium.
As a tribute to the Dallas Cowboys, Texas Stadium and their fans all over the world, today’s post is a quiz about the team and the stadium.
The quiz will be timed in case we have a tie. In addition, the questions will be randomly rotated so not everyone will get the same questions.
And who knows what the winner might get?
The contest ends at 5:00 PM on February 10.
Good luck to all!
Patricia says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 199
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I guessed on every question and I’m afraid my score won’t be good but the survey was fun. Thanks!
Tom McGoldrick says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 89
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Fun, I guess I don’t know much about the Cowboys!
Erin Jewell says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 220
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wow – I know nothing about this.
Sharon Gautschy says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 115
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I guessed on them all.
mark sutin says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 124
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GO GIANTS
Rhonda Ellis says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 1209
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It was fun!! Thanks!!
Paul Kirch says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 136
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All guesses, but pretty fun.
Jeff Adler says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 143
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The questions were a bit obscure.
michael mermelstein says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 119
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This was good fun – as usual very good!
MIchael Halberstam says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 830
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I hate the Cowboys since I’m a Giant’s fan.
Steve Larson says:
Total Score: 1
Interview Length: 167
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I was guessing all the way.
Bette Anne Champion says:
Total Score: 1
Interview Length: 184
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Ok, I too guessed at pretty much everything but what can you expect from a person who now lives in Philadelphia, moved to Phila from Houston, and is married to the most devoted, long suffering and finally vindicated Arizona Cardinal fan in the hemisphere
Magda Cooling says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 84
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OK, you can tell these were ALL guesses!
Jennifer Stocks says:
Total Score: 1
Interview Length: 121
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I’m clueless.
Robert Harrell says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 268
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it wasn’t easy…lots of minutia.
TA says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 160
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How ’bout them Cowboys!!!
Anna says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 134
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All guesses!
John Garvey says:
Total Score: 6
Interview Length: 194
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fun
Bob T says:
Total Score: 6
Interview Length: 294
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Just glad the Packers don’t have to play there anymore….
Adam Jolley says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 125
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Boo Cowboys!
Sarah Baird says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 101
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I’m pretty sure I didn’t get anything right!
Jeremy Brandt says:
Total Score: 0
Interview Length: 154
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Fun! Really hard though.
Mark Crumbley says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 170
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Difficult questions!
Karen Matson says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 274
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I think it’s a tough survey…..
Louis Ygartua says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 125
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not much
Ray says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 641
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Interesting.
Pat Billups says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 196
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Not being a sports fan, I guessed on most of them.
Tim Antoniewicz says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 117
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Good hard questions. Even for a Dallas fan!
Bill Dunn says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 138
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Tough quiz…you really need to be a fan to do well on it…Unfortunately I’m a Steelers fan!
Kristen says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 133
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I hope this doesn’t blow my fan status!
Mark Eichinger says:
Total Score: 6
Interview Length: 123
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na
Marilyn Blumenthal says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 128
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I can honestly say I had no idea on every question.
Don Yelton says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 131
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Neat !!! I had to guess at the answers…didn’t feel like i knew very many…a tough quiz for the occasional fan !
Amy Eichinger says:
Total Score: 1
Interview Length: 147
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I LOVE MY COWBOYS!!!
Lydia says:
Total Score: 7
Interview Length: 1019
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If today’s players ever regain the work ethic of the cowboys in the 80s and 90s – we’ll see a winning team again.
joef says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 150
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I hate the cowboys
janet savoie says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 140
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It was an exercise is guessing for me, but I still enjoyed it.
Bob Hentschel says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 83
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Good quiz
Paul E says:
Total Score: 10
Interview Length: 952
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Fun!
Will Morris says:
Total Score: 6
Interview Length: 173
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Fun. Don’t know all the stats, but have been to scores of games at Texas Stadium. I was there for all three Super Bowl teams in the 1990’s.
Will Morris says:
That was fun. I was a 6 but unsure of a couple of answers that I might have figured out if I had taken more time. I was a season ticket holder for 10 years and went to the 1993 and 1995 Super Bowls. That seems like a long time ago.
I was also at the SMU v. Arkansas game in 1982 that resulted in a 17-17 tie and probably cost SMU a chance at the national championship. A horrible pass interference call against Arkansas led SMU to the game tying touchdown. That call caused the NCAA to change the pass interference penalty in college to 15 yards instead of a first down at the point of the penalty.
rick hurwitz says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 209
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I loved it. very interesting though i am sure i did poorly on it. all of my knowledge about a football team is devoted to the Arena football league.
Troy King says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 165
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a little on the difficult side, but fun.
Chad Wynn says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 216
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tough
Douglas Lammer says:
Total Score: 7
Interview Length: 146
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Fun
Andy says:
Total Score: 7
Interview Length: 264
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survey was fine, my memory? not so much
Brendan Sammon says:
Total Score: 6
Interview Length: 149
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It was fun!!
sarah younk says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 121
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i knew i would know nothing! but thought i would see how i did, coming from michigan!
Bryan Schilling says:
Total Score: 7
Interview Length: 250
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It’s Cowboys related, that means it’s GREAT!
Karen Dawson says:
Total Score: 7
Interview Length: 1286
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Fun…but hard.
Laurie Bausk says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 108
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fun
Sheri says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 107
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Love the quizes, but mostly guess!
pk says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 394
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qsd
Connie Ruben says:
Total Score: 6
Interview Length: 222
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i have no idea what I think of it Merrill
g says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 123
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Just guessed.
taylor says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 206
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Go Cowboys!
Dave N says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 154
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Tough survey…especially for a Jets fan!
Kenyon Woods says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 114
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fun
Andrew Bausk says:
Total Score: 7
Interview Length: 475
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Fun!
Todd Hansen says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 133
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I am not a Dallas fan but good questions…
anthony tammaro says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 182
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Thanks again for a fun survey
David Galloway says:
Total Score: 9
Interview Length: 777
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Hope I did good..
Vic Walsh says:
Total Score: 2
Interview Length: 108
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Fun. The ultimate trivia quiz.
Jeff Tanner says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 196
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I had to guess on so many – but I can tell you things like “Who was the first Dallas Cowboy to be MVP of a Super Bowl?” (and no, we didn’t win that one – the only MVP from a losing team)
Jeff Tanner says:
Total Score: 5
Interview Length: 196
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I had to guess on so many – but I can tell you things like “Who was the first Dallas Cowboy to be MVP of a Super Bowl?” (and no, we didn’t win that one – the only MVP from a losing team)
JP Galloway says:
Hi Merrill -
I’m not a good one for sports trivia but I do know a bit about the history of Texas stadium. Back in the mid 60’s my great uncle, Keene Galloway, owned a wholesale nursery in largely rural environs of what is now Irving.
At that time representatives of a new NFL expansion team (the Cowboys) made him a wonderful offer he couldn’t refuse and he agreed to sell about 50 acres of land to them for the princely sum of $250,000.
He retired from business on the proceeds and what was once the Galloway Wholesale Nursery is now covered with Texas Stadium.
Bet you won’t find that in your trivia quiz.
Patrick
william mitchell says:
Total Score: 6
Interview Length: 142
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good
Merrill Dubrow says:
Jeff,
Thanks for joining in on the quiz. To answer your question – I am going with Harvey Martin…….. Only a guess……
Merrill
Jeff Tanner says:
Merrill
Right side of the ball – way too late. Chuck Howley, in the Super Bowl against Baltimore. The announcers on the TV show made the decision in those days, and they made it too early. Baltimore came back and won. If you’ve seen the highlight film, you also know that Howley holds the record for longest helmet toss – over 50 yards immediately following the loss. If I recall correctly, he was also first in the Ring of Honor.
Harvey Banks Martin was co-MVP with Randy White, the only time co-MVPs were chosen. So even though Pittsburgh has won more Super Bowls, they still have fewer MVPs.
Jeff Tanner
Associate Dean, Research & Faculty Development
Merrill Dubrow says:
Patrick,
Great story – you are right I never came across that story when I was doing my research for the quiz.
Thanks for sharing.
Merrill
Amy Shields says:
Total Score: 1
Interview Length: 38
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If you notice my time, you’ll know my methodology…click 1st box, 2nd box, 3rd box.
Adam W says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 201
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I claim to be a fan, but knew nothing. Please don’t tell my boys.
Rick Johnson says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 133
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It was interesting, but I am not a Cowboys fan.
Chuck Miller says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 175
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Solid survey. Not a fan but we’ll see how much I’ve absorbed!
Khary Campbell says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 193
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fun
Jocelyn Smith says:
Total Score: 7
Interview Length: 346
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I liked it. I am a fan of the Cowboys!
Kristen Darby says:
Total Score: 6
Interview Length: 244
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Got some help from my football fan of a hubby, hmmm, not much of a fan after all.
Jon Last says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 104
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I would have done a lot better at Titans/Oilers trivia.
Randy Carson says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 193
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Hey, I am a Steeler fan!
Willie Martin says:
Total Score: 8
Interview Length: 110
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Happy as it was
Willie Martin says:
Good Trivia Merrill! I think I represented well as a Viking fan, who played the last exhibition game at Texas Stadium…
Craig Stevens says:
Total Score: 3
Interview Length: 227
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I’m a huge (yet frustrated) Cowboys fan. Here’s another question to add to the quiz: What’s the difference between the Dallas Cowboys and a dollar bill??? You can still get four quarters out of a dollar bill.
steven says:
Total Score: 4
Interview Length: 137
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good