Dallas Group Sets Sights on College Football Hall of Fame
It seems that the South will stop at nothing in its quest to completely and utterly take over college football.
Not even South Bend is safe.
According to the Dallas Morning News, a group of Dallas businessmen and prominent football stars has launched an effort to lure the College Football Hall of Fame away from its longtime home in South Bend, Indiana—home to Notre Dame, Touchdown Jesus, and a whole lot of college football history.
The Dallas group, which includes Roger Staubach and Deion Sanders, says if the Hall was willing to make the move, they would pay for both the move and construction of a new Hall in The Big D. At the same time, a group of out of Arlington—home to the Dallas Cowboys’ new $1 billion megastadium—is also trying to lure the Hall away from Indiana.
Let us pause for a moment and consider the travesty that would be putting the College Football Hall of Fame next door to an NFL stadium.
Ugh.
The good news? Well, Hall officials, though impressed by the Dallas group, say they have no interest in moving. At least not yet.
"We're flattered by the interest," Steve Hatchell, president and chief executive of the National Football Foundation. "But we have a nice home in South Bend, and we're preparing for this year's induction ceremonies."
Photo: Will the College Football Hall of Fame leave the shadow of the Golden Dome? (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
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Tim, Dallas is in Texas. Texas is not part of the Old South. That’s like saying Pittsburgh is in the mid-Atlantic when everyone knows it’s really in the midwest. Get your facts straight.
Last time I looked at a history of the Civil War, Texas seceded from the union and fought for the confederacy. General Longstreet and his Texans were part of the Army of Northern Virginia. That’s the “Old South” no matter how you look at it. You ought to get your facts straight ol’ South Will Rise Again.
It would be an absolute travesty to put the College FB Hall of Fame in Arlington Texas or Dallas for that matter.