Texas Stadium was a football stadium in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The stadium opened on October 24, 1971.
Built to replace the aging Cotton Bowl, it was the home field of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and had a seating capacity of 65,675.
In 2009, it was replaced as home of the Cowboys by the $1.15 billion Cowboys Stadium, which completed construction and officially opened on May 27, 2009 in Arlington, Texas.
The stadium was demolished, by controlled implosion, on April 11, 2010.