Naming a Stadium

The other day, Mark Davis, Dallas radio talk show host was subbing for Rush Limbaugh. While he talked about the political subjects of the day, (This was the day that Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with cancer) he took time out to talk about Football.
The story above is from December 2007 about the construction of the new stadium for The Dallas Cowboys. Mr. Davis noted that with a new playing field comes the sale of naming rights to the stadium and how he hoped that team owner, Jerry Jones would resist the temptation to sell the name of the stadium to some large corporation. Mr Davis suggested that it be called "Tom Landry Stadium". My suggestion is that it be called "Schram / Landry Field".
Tex Schram as general Manager of the Dallas Cowboys and Tom Landry as head coach, took an expansion team that couldn't buy a touchdown and made it into "America's Team". I think that they should both be honored. But as Mr. Davis noted, neither he or I will be Lunching with Mr. Jones to give him our ideas.

Ah well!

Lets talk about Civil War Re- enactments.

For the "God! I am too hip for all of this !" bunch, this is just a couple of old farts that like to dress up and play with guns. Even our "Info babe " that you seen in the clip knew just enough to get through the interview.

Now I will admit, I know much more about Civil War re-enacting that the average person, But I am a amateur historian. What our interviewer (and for that matter, most people) don't understand that these two guys are living out the dream that the men who fought it out close to 145 years ago.

At the end of Ken Burns Civil War documentary, They read the reading of an Confederate veteran. He said that he "Wished that he could do it all again". He would wake up with his comrades, answer the rool , form up with his company and march to the battlefield, Fight the battle with the same bravery as he had all those many years before.

And when the guns were silent, Johnny Reb & Billy Yank would stand up and have a party as Brothers.

If anything, That what Re-Enacting means to me. Living out a long heald dream...........

Introduction of sorts

This a test bed for me to try things out, As new or re-hashed ideas come to me