The Moments That Shaped Dallas Sports

“What truly defines a city’s sports legacy—championship wins or seismic turning points?” That’s the question Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle in this lively and laugh-filled episode of The Ben and Skin Show.The crew dives into a Dallas Morning News feature ranking the 10 people, teams, and events that shaped DFW sports history. But do they agree with the list? Not exactly. From Tom Landry’s 10-year deal to the Cowboys becoming America’s Team in 1972, and from Nolan Ryan’s $1.8 million signing to the Stars’ controversial Stanley Cup win in 1999, the gang debates what really belongs on the Mount Rushmore of Dallas sports moments.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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But right now it's time for this.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Now it's around the sports KTD twins as all the
sports Yay.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Very tiny quick cowboy No.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Brian Schottenheimer did say today they are expecting their cornerback,
uh Chavon Ravel to play.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Let's mind it okay, so you shall see.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I keep forgetting he exists. They spent a high pick
on him. Yeah, he's gonna be good. I think if
he's ever healthy again. Ever at any point in his life.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Helpe he doesn't get torched on night one and it
kills his confidence or something like that, though, because like
coming back from an injury.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Let's have a little grace. Yep. Unless I hope that
he's a he just gets in there.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Well, he'll be fine because the Cowboys get a consistent
pass rush.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
All the time, never never lost. They're putting something out
in the Dallas Morning News on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
It's going to be a big spread, and it's about
the ten people, teams and events that shaped Dallas sports history.
And they put them in this article in chronological order.
And I do think we can skip the first five
because they happened back in the thirties and stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
But is it like slinging Sammy bag going to TCUs or.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Something, Say, it is the Sammy ball thing, which New
Year's tradition, It's the Tom Landry thing.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
It's bracas and the Cotton Bowl, the.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Cotton Bowl, Clint Murchison signing Tom Landry to a ten
year deal.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
But let's go to nineteen seventy two. No, Hello, I
got to do this one.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Nineteen sixty eight by Ray Nelson won eleven straight PGA
Tour events.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's crazy. But also there's only like ten guys on
the tour.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
And a lot of them were working the oil too.
You could go there are wildcatters.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
So wait, when you go to the top five, the
fifth one is nineteen seventy two.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well yeah, but he went chronologically here, so he didn't
like rank him. So nineteen seventy two, the Cowboys exchanged
their nickname of next year's champions for America's Team.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
So there's only four things after this chronologically.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
M hm huh.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
That's after they beat Miami in the Super Bowl, their
first super Bowl. But then like that is when they
did turn into America's team in nineteen seventy two. Yeah,
which is the year the Rangers got here, right, Yeah,
from Washington. Yeah, nineteen eighty eight here I was born obviously.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, what is it.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
You Gerry bought the Cowboys?

Speaker 3 (02:44):
No, nope, eighty eight, it might have been eight.

Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh oh Pony Express.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Nope.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Tom Greaves signs Noan Ryan to a one point eight
million dollar.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Deal with Yeah, that was a big moment.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, for sure, you've.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Played here for five years.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah, you know, the Rangers had won much from seventy
two to eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
In fact, they're probably terrible.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
No, it was insane to get a five hundred pitcher.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Uh, hey, go on, man, Hey, man, I love sports. Yeah,
but Ventura right kicked his ass right, so in your face.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
If you can get an aging five hundred picture to
break all his records in your uniform, you've done something.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Also, the defense, the infielders out there's liked. Can you
just stop walking or stracking out everybody? We want to
play till it's hot out here?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Mark Cuban buy is the Dallas Mavericks or the Mavericks
draft dirt wrong, Dirk wrong, wrong, wrong Stars win a championship?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:44):
Stanley Coutt June twentieth, nineteen ninety nine, one am bred
hole taps it in?

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Was he in the crease or not he was? It's
Dirt Championship.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Rangers Championship, twenty eleven Dirt Championship, So yeah, twenty three
Rangers Championship.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
So I would go about this list different me too.
I'd like to audit this approach. I would go, and
I think you're thinking the same way as I am.
The seismic events that led to championships or led to disaster. So,
in other words, Mark Cuban buying the Mavericks. Nico Harrison
trading Luka Doncic, Norm Green moving the Minnesota North Stars

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to Dallas, Jerry buying the Cowboys. To me, that's bigger
than you know, you know what I'm saying. Cowboys drafting
Troy Aikman. Yeah, things like that. I like where your
guys heads are at.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
Because joining us live on the Eagle hotline right now
is Kevin Sherrington Dallas.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Together for joining the classic Sherrington list. Arjel wall is
your deal when you're doing this man, lod Keivid.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I forgot how much he organizes the show and tells
people to hold on and go and start to stop immediately.
He'll stop people when it's their turn to talk, and
then he'll throw it to him when they're not ready
to talk.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
When he brings the guy on and then does not
ask him a question, he then wants to go to
Holt for his inside first, after the guy to wait
for three minutes.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Also, Hulk will fart and he'll check on Holt before
going Okay, Holt. All right, there's around this around the sports.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
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