With the team becoming more successful in the mid-1960s, Clint Murchison, Jr. wanted a new stadium for the team. Listing agent Lillie Young, citing tax documents, said the home was originally built for Texas oilman Clint Murchison Sr. And, I must admit I got some enjoyment out of it. Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2015. His sons Clint Jr. and John shared their father's wizardry, adding to their investment firmament the Vail, Colo., ski resort and the Dallas Cowboys. Try again. Flanker Max Magee played drunk and caught two TD passes-one of them using only one hand and the side of his head. Don Meredith was quarterback, and Danny Reeves was the halfback to Perkins at fullback. The plan was fowled up by a puzzled security guard who heard the chickens clucking under the stadium. This went on for five minutes a night, five nights a week on Channel 4. In 1984, an ailing Murchison[4] sold the Dallas Cowboys to an investment syndicate led by Bum Bright, a Dallas area businessman who had a background in banking/financial services and in oil/gas production. They will shut off their outside receivers. J. R. crumpled to the floor with a gunshot wound in the cliffhanger episode that aired on March 21, 1980. How different are the very rich from you and me? He believed his team would be good, even special, for years to come. I cant see how theyre only a 7-point favorite. "[6], As the team floundered through their first few seasons and critics called for Landry's firing, Murchison backed his coach by handing him a 10-year contract. Anything short of a world championship followed by designing your own line of sporting goods means failure. And theyll beat Buffalos no-huddle offense by sacking Jim Kelly and causing a lot of fumbles and interceptions. Carter tells me that the week before the game. And prospered. Then thru the 70's it all starts to fall apart as Clint jr made dumber and more leveraged deals that thru off little cash. It sits on property that was part of the Dallas Polo Club in the 1920s, she said. He attended school at Lawrenceville School and joined the Marine Corps after Pearl Harbor and went on to become a student at Duke University as part of the Marine Corps V-12 training program[2] where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in electrical engineering. The Jonsson-Cullum forces adamantly and repeatedly said no, ridiculing the notion as civic silliness. Brandt had a free hand in drafting and scouting players, and Landry enjoyed absolute authority over the day-to-day running of the actual team. Historians credit the teams success for giving the City of Dallas a point of pride and a way to recover from the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963. The assets of the company being acquired are then used as collateral for the loan. Youre such an idiot. Murchison's laissez-faire attitude has been credited by many Cowboys fans as the driving force in the team's 20 consecutive winning seasons from 19661985 (including five Super Bowl appearances and including two Super Bowl championships). Even so, the Arkansas oilman deserves 100% of the business chops he gets. WITH DANNY REEVES NOW in the New York job, I want the Giants to win. He and Richardson drove to the site, and sure enough, smelled the black gold bubblin up. In 1971,1 began to write my first novel-North Dallas Forty, which would be published in 1973 to critical acclaim and to dismay in the Cowboys front office. Clint William Murchison Jr. was the last surviving son of Clint Murchison Sr., a Texas wildcatter who rode the oil boom of the 1920's to fame and fortune. Willie Nelson and Roger Miller, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Doors. More than $500 million in liabilities have been filed against the Murchison estate in the last two years. He was determined to create a venue that protected fans while allowing the weather elements freedom to impact the game. Now he has a 16-year-old son who sees the team and the sport very differently than he did. The huskies would go after the chickens and that would be the best halftime show ever. No pain, no gain. : Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall hated Clint Murchison Jr. because, to get the Dallas franchise, Murchison lobbed money on Congress to force the Redskins to give up their virtual broadcast monopoly of professional football in the South in 1960. After John Murchison's death in 1979, a legal dispute over his estate led to the sale of the Cowboys to H. R. Bright, a Dallas businessman, for $60 million in 1984. And: 2. He looks at me. John collected art as an investment. Who knew that this family had so much to do with what we now know and love as Texas?! He returned to Athens and worked in the bank until the outbreak of World War I, when he joined the Army. And so it is with the story that our book, Hole in the Roof, will expose between its front and back covers. In later years, the joke became, They talk about Clint being low-profile, but he was a carnival-barker show daddy compared to John, who most Cowboys fans didnt know existed. In later years, however, John played an excruciatingly important role in the history of the Cowboys albeit in death, which triggered the fall of Clint Murchison Jr. John was two years older than Clint Jr. and was, by all accounts, the careful, judicious partner. His grandfather founded the First National Bank in Athens. He said it interfered with concentration. Texas Stadium became the prototype of the 21st-century stadium, whether it hosts high school games in Katy, Texas, or serves as the $5 billion launchpad that opened in 2020 as the shared home of the Rams and Chargers. We were) finally playing to sold-out crowds after seven years of struggle. I would love to take one percent credit for Landry, Schramm said, but I can't. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Clint Jr. had begun as an undergraduate at MIT but was soon derailed by World War II, which led to his induction in the Marine Corps, via the U.S. Navys V-12 program. Money is like manure, Clint Sr. once famously told his boys, echoing a line written by Thornton Wilder in his 1954 play, The Matchmaker, but adding his own special spin: If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. Undaunted, these rich Dallas tycoons would get drunk, make prank calls to George Preston Marshall in the middle of the night and cluck into the phone. One of the first to make nationwide headlines was the youngest of Hunt's sons: shy, well-mannered Lamar. The old NFL, country music and rock n roll. St.Martin's Press, New York, 1989. She writes about luxury properties, food and lifestyle in Dallas. The Dallas Historical Society will welcome authors Burk Murchison and Michael Granberry for a book signing on Dec. 8 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hall of State, 3939 Grand Ave. in Fair Park, as they debut their book Hole in the Roof: The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever. Rather than being a city-owned rental facility, la the Cotton Bowl and dozens like it across America, where the only real perk was a hot dog and a Coke (or in Texas, a Dr Pepper), Clint cast the stadium in an adventurous new light, and Jones got it. I just wish it was on Kindle. In 1985, Murchison designed, constructed and financed a 30-acre campus-style headquarters for the Dallas Cowboys called Valley Ranch located in Irving, Texas. DAD? Not that it was much of a game. Ms. Wolfe's book adds a lot of detail and backstory to the Murchison dynasty. Bright in turn sold the Cowboys to Jerry Jones in 1989 following several losing seasons. As a loyal Dallas Cowboys fan, he can recite the stats on everybody from Troy Aikman towell, youll have to ask him. Clinton Williams Murchison Jr. (September 12, 1923 March 30, 1987) was a businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team. I joined the team for the 1964 season, coming to Dallas and the NFL out of Big Ten Basketball at Michigan State. Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. On January 31, 1993, he was euphoric. His executives had the authority to make important decisions without consulting him, and he never coached from the corner or second-guessed them, Woolley wrote. Co-author Burk Murchison is named for the uncle who died. Photo Courtesy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Arlington, Texas. Wolfe answers that question in this history of the rise and fall of Texas's Murchison family. , ISBN-10 [4], Murchison enjoyed a reputation as a practical joker. To wit: In 2017, Katy, Texas, unveiled a $72 million high school facility, which carries luxury boxes for corporate sponsors. This was, for the most part, exactly what Clint Jr. had envisioned. Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2017. When 1 played for Tom. NFL films will show the Cowboys seven TDs over and over in every future pregame show, so the network can recoup their billion-dollar investment in the NFL by selling hundreds of minutes of commercial time at $2 mil-Hon-$3 million a minute. In todays dollars, thats north of $87 million. As part of the agreement to build Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas, Murchison gave up ownership of the stadium and the 95 acres on which it sat in exchange for a 40-year lease. We missed going to the first two by a total of 3 yards and about 15 seconds. Clint Jr. saw a downtown stadium as a far better home for his rapidly improving team than what he called the fully depreciated Cotton Bowl in Fair Park. Cowboy, Clint said again and smiled slightly. The Cowboys became first team to use computers in talent scouting. Robert Murchison notes that Pop was out of town much of their childhood looking after his business interests, thus John and Dad were raised by a loving aunt, grandmother and wonderful servants., Looking for a new chapter after the death of his wife and son, Clint Sr. moved to Dallas, where he rapidly expanded his burgeoning portfolio. He was a wide receiver for the Cowboys, and then he wrote North Dallas Forty. In The Murchisons: The Rise and Fall of a Texas Dynasty, author Jane Wolfe writes how Clint Jr. thrived in a milieu of intellectuals from Harvard, MIT and Wellesley. I guess thats good. Clinton Williams Murchison, Sr. (April 11, 1895 - 20 June 1969), was a noted Texas-based oil magnate and political operative. And those who saved their cash were going to be the losers., The Boss, Clinton Williams Murchison Sr., was fond of saying he liked to do business through a formula expressed through the homespun homily financin by finaglin. Clint Sr. soon thrust himself into a pantheon of Texas wheeler-dealers that enumerated such fellow giants as Sid Richardson, H.L. After several unsuccessful opportunities to buy existing franchises, including the San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins, Murchison was awarded an NFL expansion franchise that would begin play in the 1960 season. Enjoy unlimited access to all of our incredible journalism, in print and digital. His elder son, John, won Wall Street's biggest proxy fight, developed the Vail, Colorada ski resort, and was a noted jet-setter. By the time I was traded to the New York Giants in 1969, we had been in the playoffs three times, gone twice to the NFL championship game, losing both times to Green Bay on the last play. Its 70 acres now eat up multiple blocks, housing museums and a school for the performing arts, in addition to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Opera and the Tony Award-winning Dallas Theater Center. The primary suite has two bathrooms (one complete with a coffee bar), and both are adorned with marble finishes. Mr. Murchison is survived by his second wife, Anne, and a daughter and three sons from his first marriage, Coke Anne Saunders, Clint Murchison 3d, Burk Murchison and Robert Murchison. It may come as news to anyone who played for the Cowboys after the mid-70s and to all the fans, but the Redskins/Cowboys rivalry didnt start on the field or even between the players. But some things havent changed: I am a father who refuses to allow his son to play football despite his deep desire and obvious talent as a receiver-it is a price that is just not worth the privilege. Broke and dying, Clint Jr. sold the Cowboys in 1984, the same year the art museum abandoned Fair Park, only to resurface downtown as the anchor of the Dallas Arts District. In 1964 and after the fourth losing season, many naysayers called for the firing of Coach Tom Landry. Cheerful and Optimistic. When Clint Murchison, Jr. was 26 years old in 1949, his father. Theres no in-between mats very comfortable. The Los Angeles coliseum was half empty, and the crowd was asked to sit opposite the press box so that TV audiences would have the impression that there were lots of people in attendance. The club came apart from the top. Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.. Theyll never die. She died in 1926, leaving him to raise three small sons John, Clint Jr. and Burk, who died from pneumonia when he was 11. Clinton Williams "Clint" Murchison Sr. (April 11, 1895 - June 20, 1969) [1] was a noted Texas -based oil magnate and political operative. Just one story in the folklore is how one night, Clint Sr. drove to Wichita Falls, near the Oklahoma border, fueled by a rumor hed heard about a wildcat well ready to start pumping black gold. In 1927 he founded a company that was to become the Southern Union Gas Company in Dallas. The suites were an immediate status sensation. They may not go five times, but theyll win all they go to. Carter flips back to MTV. It is a perfect example of the generation gap between my son and me-the old Cowboys and the new Cowboys. Mr. His father loved to stay borrowed up to the hilt. The future seems to be theirs for the taking. If that name sounds familiar, it may be. Viewers the world over had to wait until Nov. 21, 1980, to learn the answer to the question that sparked international curiosity: Who Shot J.R.? Editors note: This excerpt from Hole in the Roof: The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever, by Burk Murchison and News staff writer Michael Granberry, is reprinted with permission from Texas A&M University Press. Jerry is a fellow risk-taker who made his money by becoming what feels to us like an oxymoron an Arkansas oilman. Its cast of supporting actors included silent brother John. Reeves came back to the huddle after carrying the ball. For public libraries interested in the history of the oil business or Texas, or in the exploits of the wealthy. I had been there for the last three. The kitchen features Carrera marble, two countertop islands, a dumbwaiter and countertop seating. [4], Murchison worked with architects to create a revolutionary design for a football-only stadium that would feature a roof that would cover all the seats, but leave an open field to keep the elements as part of the game. In other words, as Cowboys fixtures, they lasted even longer than Clint. Mr. Murchison, who had been debilitated by a neurological disorder, was admitted to Gaston Episcopal Hospital here about two weeks ago, said Sandy McCoy, an associate administrator of the hospital. This page was last edited on 27 January 2023, at 13:23. Hole in the Roof takes you on a deep dive into the personality and passions of Clint Jr., while extending a more than passing hello to everyone else who was part of his world. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. She said he died of complications caused by pneumonia. It would, he believed, give the Cowboys and their fervent fan base a spiffy new home that would pay an added dividend: it would serve as a catalyst in rebuilding a damaged Dallas and healing a wounded populace who bristled at the nickname city of hate.. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. While everyone else wore suits and talked football, I wore blue jeans and did outrageous morality plays with defensive tackle Willie Townes and Craig Mortons sheepdog. The stadium with the hole in its roof served as the home of Americas Team from 1971 until the end of the 2008 football season, after which its primary tenant moved to what became AT&T Stadium in Arlington, where taxpayers funded $325 million of the overall daunting tab of $1.2 billion. The new stadium has yet to lay claim to a Super Bowl-winning Cowboys team. They had gotten as far as seeding the field with hundreds of pounds of chicken feed and smuggling a couple hundred chickens into the stadium. But I should try. In the beginning, things were a little wildanimals were. Theyve got free agency, and theyre going to live and play in the NFL forever. His 2 sons then extended the empire to Wall Street in the 1950s and pro football in the 1960s--they started the Dallas Cowboys. Following the death of his father Clint Murchison Sr., John and Clint Jr. inherited the wealth that their father had created. As deals fell through and development projects around the country failed, the cash needed to sustain the payments on the large loans that he had personally guaranteed at high interest rates was not available. In 1919, he made his way to Fort Worth, with nary a penny in his pocket. The brothers won. Son of a Texas Wildcatter. I weigh 142 pounds.'' Wolfe gives a colorful description of a quiet, unpretentious man whose financial acumen and brilliant use of leverage helped him build a multimillion-dollar conglomerate. In telling you the story, we will show you how it serves as history, comedy and tragedy, but most of all, as a rollicking read, every bit as fascinating as a Texas character named Clint Murchison Jr., the creator of your Dallas Cowboys, who fostered their own rare world beneath the hole in the roof that seized the attention of terrorists and sports fans alike. He spent 19 years at the Los Angeles Times before returning to Dallas. He has turned on MTV and is watching the Naughty By Nature video Hip-Hop Hooray. The character, made famous, or infamous, by actor Larry Hagman (whose mother, Mary Martin, played the title role in the original Broadway production of Peter Pan), hot-wired a ratings bonanza that introduced the world to the hole in the roof. The Cowboys played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas since their inception in 1960. I have tried to convince myself that if the Cowboys make him happy, then I am happy, but really I still struggle with my own memories of the team and try to reconcile them with the Cowboys of today. Despite politics and religious issues being banned at the station, it was stopped when the Swedish government introduced new legislation in the spring of 1962, criminalizing the act of buying commercials on the station. The home has a solarium, with access to the garden, as well as a trophy room with original murals signed by Reveau Bassett. Because the risk-taking pair won far more than they lost, they stayed afloat. Between his junior and senior years, he interned at The Washington Post during "the Watergate summer" of 1973. Clint Murchison Sr. began building the family fortune selling animal skins for pennies; later with interests in oil, real estate, and publishing, he was one of the first conglomerate makers. His philosophy was simplistic enough, once telling his sons, "Money is like . In the early 1960s Burl pioneered home kidney dialysis treatment and in 1966 became only the 130th person in the world to undergo a live kidney transplant, a risky and unproven operation at the time. After World War II, he earned a master's degree in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lombardes Packers beat the hell out of the Kansas City Chiefs. Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. By some accounts, John was responsible for a conservative viewpoint that helped hold in check the ''wheeler-dealer'' nature of his elder brother. : It represented an alliance of the founders sons, older brother John and younger brother Clint. He also longed for a symbol of redemption a state-of-the-art stadium that could go a long way toward restoring a depressed downtown in the wake of President John F. Kennedys assassination on Elm Street in Dallas in 1963. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell., According to Fortune, Clint Sr. declares one of his best assets is a full knowledge of the use of credit. Watch what they do to Buffalo. And what a world it was. Looking for more Posh Properties stories? Please try again. : The university offered to reinstate him if he would rat out his fellow gamblers he refused. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Somebody get that gol durn Bill Glass, Reeves said in his angry Georgia drawl. He only had a few childhood friends. The sponsors quickly dropped out, the station threatened firing and Schramm threatened fines. Owning islands and football teams and how it can all end; Clint Jr owning the World Champion Dallas Cowboys and having $4000.00 in the bank when he filed for bankruptcy. 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Pre-order from Texas A&M Press. His is an exciting journey during the golden age of journalism, and his biography will be required reading for journalism and medical students alike. The Cowboys used an IBM 360 Model 65 computer.[4]. And yet, his wealth continued to grow. Not one old lady on Social Security is going to have her taxes raised because of this stadium, Murchison said. COMING IN 2022 FROM TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS. He nodded to Billy Kilmer, smiled again at Carter and moved toward the elevator. Free to hear the presentation, $30 to buy the book. Working with his father and his brother John, the Murchison family diversified away from oil into homebuilding, general construction, real estate development, insurance, mutual funds, publishing, the leisure time industry and restaurant industry. Theres also guest quarters, complete with a bedroom, living room and kitchen, and an attached five-car garage. And in that respect alone, irony abounds, one of many we share in Hole in the Roof. They passed up Tony Mandarich for Troy Aikman. Carter turns back to Ice Cube and The Nappy Dug Out. Dallas will jam up the running lanes and shut down Thurman Thomas, Carter tells me early in the week before the Super Bowl. Clint Jr. did, too. Under Murchisons ownership the Dallas Cowboys delivered 20 consecutive winning seasons, 17 years of playoff appearances, five trips to the Super Bowl and two Lombardi trophies. This was the same man who almost fired me in 1968 for getting Kenny Rogers a sideline photographers pass. The Murchisons: The Rise and Fall of a Texas Dynasty. Theyll kill the Bills. As Jones said on the night in 1989 that he proclaimed himself the Cowboys new impresario, he would be involved in everything down to the jocks and socks. The Murchison way was the polar opposite. Despite sporting radically different personalities, the two agreed to co-own the Cowboys via their partnership, with each owning half of the 90% of total ownership. Back in 1966, when the NFL had two divisions, 14 teams and 560 players, we were playing Cleveland in the Cotton Bowl for the lead in the old Eastern Division. Clint believed there was an opportunity in Dallas for a successful professional football team. The Cowboys and the Super Bowl have come a long way from that close encounter we had in 1966-67. In 1966, when the still-young Dallas Cowboys franchise ended six years of agony with their first winning season, the team's owner and founder, Clint Murchison Jr., son of a billionaire oilman, was feeling ambitious. Lewis said, Texas Stadium has a hole in its roof so God can watch His favorite team play., Texas Stadium was the first NFL stadium to use seat option bonds to help pay construction costs. The old days. He changed where and how games are played, not only in professional football but also in baseball, basketball, and colleges and high schools. The living room has the original hardwood flooring and crown molding, and the dining room is accented by the original Gracie Studio wallpaper. I finished out my career with the Giants playing for the Mara family-I cant stand the Maras-so Ill pull for them to win games and lose money. By Peter H. Frank, Special To the New York Times. 1. Clint Murchison Jr. (left) and his brother John Murchison smiled after a 1961 meeting of the new board of directors of the multibillion-dollar Alleghany Corp. in New York. Clint Jr.s success can be attributed largely to Schramm, a marketing genius; Landry, one of the games great coaches; and Gil Brandt, who, as director of scouting, revolutionized the way players are recruited by using newfangled technology computers long before computers were commonplace. I could just picture all their agents arguing about fees and residuals with the guys from PepsiCo. Its just that in football you spend your youth so fast. THE ONLY TIME I HAVE BEEN in Texas Stadium, for a 1982 game, I took Carter with me. The article, by Edwin Pope, a sports editor of The Miami Herald, referred to Mr. Murchison as ''a 130-pound halfback from M.I.T.'' Within a short period of time the "Project Atlanta" people sold out completely to the Caroline group. During their first five seasons, the Cowboys lost $3 million and failed to win more than five games a season. Hes wondering the same thing I am: What the hell am I doing defending Tom Landry? Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Dont give up. After all, I made more money in the offseason in an advertising printing business with Bobby Hayes than I ever made in football. But since he had two sons in their teens, whose business talents were unpredictable, it seemed unwise to keep all their legacy in one immensely risky petroleum basket.. The younger Mr. Murchison attended preparatory school in Lawrenceville, N.J., and was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University with a degree in electrical engineering while serving in the Marine Corps. His general attitude was to hire experts and let them execute the aspect of the business that fell in their expertise. He was also the father of Dallas Cowboys owner Clint Murchison, Jr.. Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2002, This book proved to be a very good read.You are shown how the, Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2007. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. [12], Murchison's luxury suite often played host to famous guests including Willie Nelson, Clint Eastwood, Jerry Jeff Walker, Norman Lear, Burt Reynolds, Henry Kissinger and Lyndon Johnson. Jones saw what Clint Jr. envisioned with the creation of Texas Stadium. A three-story mansion in San Antonio's Monte Vista Historic District once owned by powerful oilman Clint Murchison has hit the market for $1.5 million. Thats not what being young is supposed to be about, anyway. Through the accelerated officers training program, he was sent to Duke, where he obtained his bachelors degree in electrical engineering. A motivating factor in the NFL's decision to award a license for Dallas was the establishment of the American Football League (AFL) by Lamar Hunt, another Dallas area businessman. In 1966, when the still-young Dallas Cowboys franchise ended six years of agony with their first winning season, the team's owner and founder, Clint Murchison Jr., son of a billionaire oilman, was feeling ambitious.
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