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You know, I’m not the world’s greatest at recalling things, but here I go!

My wife and I got married many years ago and her dream was to go to a Dallas Cowboy football game in person. She had never been to one. I had been to several and I kept putting it off and putting it off and finally one day I said, “Listen, I’ve got to go to Oklahoma to do a Howard Payne game on Saturday. We’ll spend the night up there and we’ll find something to do on Sunday.” So sure enough, we go and do the Howard Payne game and it’s a very late night. We come back toward the Metropex getting in the vicinity of it and we spend the night and get up early the next morning, trying to figure out what to do.

Truthfully, I was trying to figure out what to do without going to a Cowboy game. My wife found an outdoor market up in the Metroplex, so we stayed until about noon and we started home. Here I was, about twenty minutes from Cowboy Stadium and I said, “Alright, do you want to go to the Cowboy game today?” She’s thrilled to death! I told her, “You need to really enjoy this one because it’s the only one we’re ever going to.” We go over there and get out at Texas Stadium and we had to walk about four miles to get to the gates. As it turned out, it wasn’t a sellout. They were playing the Green Bay Packers.

So we went to the Dallas – Green Bay game and sat in the south end zone about as high as you can possibly get and I was bored to death all afternoon but my wife was thrilled beyond words. Dallas won and I think it was 14 to 7. It wasn’t one of the most impressive pro games I’ve ever seen, but at least we saw it. We went down and got in the car headed back to Brownwood. I told her, “I’ve done this for you. Don’t ever ask me again.”

Well, she really never did, but I’ve taken her to a lot of other stuff, some of it pretty good! We’ve been to the new Cowboy Stadium once or twice and that’s not me being generous, that’s a friend named Jay Allison who invited us to go.

The funny thing is, she was a Cowboy fanatic when I met her. It was hard to watch a game on TV with her because she was jumping up and down and cheering and everything and I was not that big of a Cowboy fan. She knew all the players – Drew Pearson, Bob Lilly, all of them. She was a huge fan. But, you talk about a change…enter a guy named Jerry Jones. He came in and ditched Tom Landry, and a lot of fans left them. My wife, who was a Cowboy fanatic at one time, will very seldom, if ever, watch a Cowboy game nowadays. So, Jerry bought the Cowboys and has become filthy rich and maybe a little happy, but I know of at least one fan that he drove away. My wife will barely watch them now.

Until next time, so long everybody.

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‘Out of the Box’ with Dallas Huston is published each Monday morning at BrownwoodNews.com. Dallas was the radio voice of the Brownwood Lions and Howard Payne Yellow Jackets for more than 55 years. He currently is Pastor of Center City Baptist Church and hosts a Men’s Bible Study in Brownwood on Monday evenings. Your comments are welcome at [email protected].