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That morning, nearly 30,000 fans had packed into the Rubber Bowl in Akron, Ohio, for a football doubleheader featuring a local high school rivalry and the NFL's traditional holiday showcase.Īt the completion of the prep game, however, roughly 28,000 of those spectators stood up en masse and returned home to eat dry turkey. OVERCOME WITH GRATITUDE before their Thanksgiving Day game in 1952, the Dallas Texans dispensed with the traditional NFL pregame introductions and, instead, scrambled into the stands to personally thank each and every one of their fans. In so many ways it seems as if it might well have been some kind of dream.' - Giles Miller, 1952 Dallas Texans owner 'I will be the first to admit that the story that follows reads like fiction, but I assure you it is factual all the way, even to a painful degree. Meet the miraculous, disastrous 1952 Dallas TexansĮditor's note: This story about the 1952 Dallas Texans was originally published on Thanksgiving Day 2018.

#Slapdash games upgrade

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