In all that's been written and spoken about Billy Graham this week, I particularly enjoyed these two things. As a young man, before he met the Lord, Billy Graham wanted to be a baseball player. He would have likely been a good one!
In 1971 a Billy Graham crusade opened the new home of the Dallas Cowboys, Texas Stadium in Irving. Here are some of his comments from the Dallas Morning News in 1971:
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What a beautiful stadium this is!"
"... Someday I'm going to get courage enough to ask him why he left that hole up there, and I think I know. Somebody told me that Clint Murchison said that football is supposed to be an outdoor game and so he left that hole up there. ..."
"This is Texas stadium, the brand-new home of the Dallas Cowboys. And we are the first event ever in this stadium. It is the most unusual stadium that we've ever been in, because it almost looks as if it is closed, but it is an open-air stadium."
I guess someone eventually told him that the lore was, the reason there was a hole in the roof of Texas Stadium was so God could watch his team play football.
Nell