<P> The stadium was the home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys for 38 seasons, through 2008, and had a seating capacity of 65,675 . In 2009, the Cowboys moved to the $1.15 billion AT&T Stadium in Arlington . </P> <P> Texas Stadium was demolished on April 11, 2010 by a controlled implosion . </P> <P> 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. felt that the Fair Park area of the city had become unsafe and downtrodden, and did not want his season ticket holders to be forced to go through it . Murchison was denied a request by mayor Erik Jonsson to build a new stadium in downtown Dallas as part of a municipal bond package . </P> <P> 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 . 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 . </P>

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