With its mix of popular music, DJ's and news, Radio Nord became very popular. In 2022, such a sum would exceed $8.364 billion. On Sept. 11, 2001, barely a year after asking about the hole in the roof, Atta spearheaded a terrorist attack that flew hijacked airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, killing 2,749 people in the towers and on the ground nearby. The future seems to be theirs for the taking. The old NFL, country music and rock n roll. But the most compelling contain elements of all three. While the arts would eventually move downtown, the Cowboys never did. He made trades for draft choices and built a team thatll last for years, Carter says. Then Clint slowly lifted his cane and smilingly pointed at the front of Carters pullover shirt. Carter tells me that Dallas will beat the Bills in the second half. He was furious. They dress like 1 did on my TV show in 1967. The sponsors quickly dropped out, the station threatened firing and Schramm threatened fines. 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.? He doesnt want to hear it any more. He was determined to create a venue that protected fans while allowing the weather elements freedom to impact the game. Clinton Williams Murchison Jr. (September 12, 1923 March 30, 1987) was a businessman and founder of the Dallas Cowboys football team. The team last won it all in Super Bowl XXX in Tempe, Ariz., on Jan. 28, 1996, when the Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh Steelers to capture their fifth Lombardi Trophy. I thought you didnt like Landry and Schramm. Carter doesnt take his eyes off the screen, which is filled with oversized behinds, shaking like wet dogs. The plan was to turn the chickens loose when the dogsled hit the field. Plenty of Texas History you would never learn about in a history class (in Texas). It represented a new vanguard in American stadia, just as its predecessor had when it opened for football on a sunlit afternoon on Oct. 24, 1971, with halfback Duane Thomas notching its first score on a 56-yard touchdown run that served as a lyrical foreshadowing of what would happen months later: The Cowboys captured their first championship, beating the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI in New Orleans by the lopsided score of 243. Both have become huge moneymakers and a part of American sports mythology. I hadnt even known who Jimmy Johnson was until he got to Dallas. The ship Bon Jour was later renamed Mi Amigo, and after docking for almost a year in Galveston, Texas she sailed for southern England to become Radio Atlanta (McLendon began his radio career in the small town of Atlanta, Texas). But Im already getting ahead of myself. Adjusted for inflation, that amounts to roughly $2.8 million in 2020. Forbes magazine assessed its value in 2021 at $5.7 billion the sixth consecutive year the Cowboys were ranked as the worlds most valuable sports company. Son of a Texas Wildcatter. Yet, he was the rainmaker of his generation., The death of his mother and closest brother took its toll on Clint Jr. in other ways. Most of what Clint said was unintelligible, but he kept pointing with his cane and trying to talk. They got Irvin but not Aikman. Even so, Clint Jr. created a football team that compiled a record 20 consecutive winning seasons, from 1966 through 1985; appeared in five Super Bowls, winning two; and came to be known as Americas Team. Use tab to navigate through the menu items. Now its rap and hip-hop an Garth Brooks passes as a country singer. '', In the early 1980's, Mr. Murchison was involved in a number of energy and real estate ventures that eventually eroded his wealth. We could not tell the story of Clint Jr. without sharing our view that all good stories fall into three categories: history, comedy or tragedy. I made $ 11.000, arid my rent was $ 180 a month for a furnished one-bedroom. The Packers went instead and we became the team that couldnt win the big game. Try again. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! Dallas sportswriter Blackie Sherrod attributed the Cowboys' success to two rare possessions of Clint Murchison: a bottomless pocketbook and patience.[8]. Ms. Wolfe's book adds a lot of detail and backstory to the Murchison dynasty. Until John Murchison died and Clint got sick and had to sell to Bum Bright. We document that story as well, showing you how, in the end, it comes back around to Clint. . His general attitude was to hire experts and let them execute the aspect of the business that fell in their expertise. Cheerful and Optimistic. He spent 19 years at the Los Angeles Times before returning to Dallas. I cant see how theyre only a 7-point favorite. ), Richardson, Hunt, Murchison and Cullen accomplished their meteoric rise through an alchemy of luck and risk, whose payoff was best captured in the lyrics of the 1960s television comedy The Beverly Hillbillies, about a poor mountaineer who was shootin at some food, when up through the ground come a bubblin crude. Thats not what being young is supposed to be about, anyway. The theory suggests that Murchison's connections to certain Dallas industrialists as well as influence in American politics, at the time, facilitated the assassination of the president. Who knew that this family had so much to do with what we now know and love as Texas?! I weigh 142 pounds.'' This page was last edited on 27 January 2023, at 13:23. Even so, the Arkansas oilman deserves 100% of the business chops he gets. Theres also guest quarters, complete with a bedroom, living room and kitchen, and an attached five-car garage. I left football in 1969 and worked in the advertising business in Dallas for a couple of years. Clint believed there was an opportunity in Dallas for a successful professional football team. Between his junior and senior years, he interned at The Washington Post during "the Watergate summer" of 1973. 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. The Murchison estate also included what the family called the "Big House," a 22,000-square-foot mansion that Clint Sr. built and which Lupe abandoned in 1998, when she completed her house just . Cowboy, Clint said again and smiled slightly. Young called the 18,589-square-foot floor plan classic and said it was based on the White House. Contribute to chinapedia/wikipedia.en development by creating an account on GitHub. Bright in turn sold the Cowboys to Jerry Jones in 1989 following several losing seasons. it suddenly became clear to me how much time has passed. 1 dont know how Johnson treats people. Carter glances at me as two fat VJs start prancing around and talking at us. Mr. Michael Granberry was born and grew up in Dallas. In 1985, Murchison designed, constructed and financed a 30-acre campus-style headquarters for the Dallas Cowboys called Valley Ranch located in Irving, Texas. The huddle turned strangely quiet for a moment. In February 1985, Mr. Murchison filed for bankruptcy protection in what lawyers believed was one of the nation's largest personal bankruptcy cases. The players are rich, young, immortal. 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. Balanced history of a most interesting family, especially Sr. As Robert Murchison, Clint Jr.s youngest of four children, notes, Their brother Burk, Dads best friend, died when John was 13 and Dad, 12. Clint Jr. and John, Robert adds, could not have been more different. 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. Carter frowns at me. Hunt and Hugh Roy Cullen, American folk heroes in the making. In 1953, Fortune magazine published a two-part profile of Clint Sr., who then controlled 103 companies, ranging, in Woolleys words, from such traditional Texas interests as oil, gas, cattle and banks to a fishing tackle company, tourist courts, a silverware factory, Martha Washington Candy and Field and Stream magazine, which flourished in the golden age of magazines. I stood holding Carter in my arms, and it was an awkward moment. Radio Nord broadcast in Swedish for 16 months, between March 8, 1961 and June 30, 1962. Murchison suggested hiring Landry away from his job as a defensive coach with the New York Giants. After leaving the Marine Corps, he married and returned to Boston, this time to pursue a graduate degree in math at MIT. He believed his team would be good, even special, for years to come. Clint Sr. shipped John and Clint off to prep school. Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. 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. This leadership genius produced remarkable results externally and of equal importance maintained this unique, special culture internally. Among his companies was the Southern Union Company. 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. Son of legendary Texas oil man Clint Murchison Sr., he enlisted in the Marine Corps after the attack on Pearl Harbor, earned an electrical engineering degree from Duke University and a master's in mathematics from MIT. 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. Back when 1 was playing Theres no in-between mats very comfortable. Their inherited interests included the Daisy Manufacturing Company (manufacturing a BB gun); Field and Stream magazine; Heddon Rod & Reel; Henry Holt and Company (later known as Holt, Rinehart, and Winston); Delhi Oil; Kirby Petroleum and a marine construction company known as Tecon Corporation. He paid a record $140 million for the Cowboys in 1989 and made the team the most valuable sports franchise in the world. He sat on the board of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, which lingered in Fair Park, in the shadow of the Cotton Bowl, until 1984, when it moved to downtown Dallas as the newly christened Dallas Museum of Art. John was nothing like his father, whereas Clint was everything like his dad a gambler, a risk-taker extraordinaire. In that respect, Clint Sr. and Jr. resembled a more modern billionaire: current Cowboys owner Jerral Wayne Jerry Jones. jccdallas.org/event/hole-in-the-roof. The sale of his assets to pay back creditors was to eventually include his 25-acre estate and the home in North Dallas where he was reared. 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. During their first five seasons, the Cowboys lost $3 million and failed to win more than five games a season. The operation was handled by Delta Drilling, owned by Joe Zeppa. The kitchen features Carrera marble, two countertop islands, a dumbwaiter and countertop seating. Unable to add item to List. He made Phi Beta Kappa in electrical engineering at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and earned a masters degree in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was at the time the countrys toughest school for science and engineering. [9] Murchison's Cowboys, featuring likable players and a winning tradition, paved the way for a new Dallas image. 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. There he teamed up with boyhood friend Richardson, who was nibbling at the edges of a scary new enterprise oil leases. For all my negative feelings about pro football, I can think of no better example to describe the best of life in the NFL in the 60s. His borrowing, which has been an immensely profitable business practice, has become an addiction.. The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever. After its patriarch passed away, the family empire prevailed under a partnership called Murchison Brothers. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Not that it was much of a game. Clint Jr. became enamored of education and its extracurricular dividend football, which gave him his own identity beyond his dad. Carter, I ask, do you like Jimmy Johnson? And in that respect alone, irony abounds, one of many we share in Hole in the Roof. 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. For public libraries interested in the history of the oil business or Texas, or in the exploits of the wealthy. There was the Lays commercial preceding Michael Jacksons Heal the World spectacular: Mike Ditka and Howie Long and Phil Simms and Lawrence Taylor and the rest making fun of Tom Landrys bald head to sell potato chips. . Personal Clint W. Murchison Sr was married twicefirst to Anne Morris (b. He liked to use what bankers called leverage use a small amount of capital and a large loan to gain control of a company with large assets. He loved to spend an evening at the home of a professor, or a fellow graduate student, where the conversation about mathematical or scientific theory lasted well into the morning hours.. Suite 2100 This next part is important, because it underscores the model Clint Jr. followed with the Cowboys: Once Clint Sr. established or acquired a company, he left its operations to others, in the same way that Clint Jr. appointed Tex Schramm to be his president and general manager and Tom Landry his head coach. Theyll never get old. Flanker Max Magee played drunk and caught two TD passes-one of them using only one hand and the side of his head. In 1960, the National Football League approved a franchise for Dallas, and Murchison, along with Bedford Wynne, was the franchisee or license holder. But when it came to the Dallas elite, Clint Jr.s ideas were met by scoffs, not support. A fantastic book about an amazing dynasty. Trouble began after John's death in an auto accident in 1979, which forced the dissolution of his partnership with. 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. 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. Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2017, Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2009. 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. Do your best every day. Clint Murchi-son Jr. was there-he was already desperately ill. Also surviving are several grandchildren. Young said the home was passed on to Clint Murchison Sr.'s son and daughter-in-law, John and Lucille Lupe Murchison. He was socially aloof to the point many considered downright rude. The Pete Gent Show was not renewed. He gets on my nerves but hes a good coach. Carters eyes never leave the television. Before going to the stadium we stopped to pick up our tickets at the Cowboys towers on Central Expressway. Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web. He was a wide receiver for the Cowboys, and then he wrote North Dallas Forty. In the late 1950's, Clint Sr. was one of the richest Americans, right there with Edsel Ford and all of the Rockefeller boys. You left it all on the field and youre 29 years old with your life stretching out in front of you like a thousand miles of bad road. From custody battles to death, as with Shannon Murchison, once married to Clint Murchison, III, son of the founder of the Dallas Cowboys. All in a days work. 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. Finally, I could make out the word cowboy. Vietnam was loomirg, and I was trying to figure out how to dodge the draft. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. Her second book, published in 1994, is "BLOOD RICH: When Oil Billions, High Fashion, and Royal Intimacies Are Not Enough." By some accounts, John was responsible for a conservative viewpoint that helped hold in check the ''wheeler-dealer'' nature of his elder brother. Clinton Williams Murchison, Sr. (April 11, 1895 - 20 June 1969), was a noted Texas-based oil magnate and political operative. He couldnt believe this guy in a beard and hip huggers and love beads had somehow gotten onto the Cotton Bowl sidelines and into our locker room. : Johnson didnt just try and patch up for the next year, Carter continues. Sitting there watching Tom and Michael. 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. 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. Youre in, then youre out. Clint Jr., probably best known as the builder and first owner of the Dallas Cowboys, was also a philanderer and deal-maker. Even those who know a little, Fortune wrote, dont pretend to understand how Clint got mixed up in so much outlandish stuff, or how he keeps track of it all without going batty or broke. His wealth in 1953 was estimated at $300 million and growing. 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. When Clint Murchison, Jr. was 26 years old in 1949, his father. And, one day, you wake up and realize you did what they told you. A dozen huskies in feeding frenzy, chasing a couple hundred chickens and dragging Santa along behind to boot. He was at top speed by his second step and hit like a freight train. From now on, you're on your own.[4]. We missed going to the first two by a total of 3 yards and about 15 seconds. 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. The primary suite has two bathrooms (one complete with a coffee bar), and both are adorned with marble finishes. Publisher Its like that. I could just picture all their agents arguing about fees and residuals with the guys from PepsiCo.
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