Don’t tell, but I’m not that big on sports. All my family, though, are zealous Dallas Cowboys fans. So, they stared at the TV during the recent Thanksgiving...
Mental images bring joy of Dad, family sitting proudly in stands while I sang on field with chorus for halftime.
I’m one of the slackers who lean forward during halftime. This year, as the Jonas Brothers performed, I thought of a pre-game article I read by WFAA-TV digital journalist Paul Livengood. He reviewed more than two decades of Cowboy halftime entertainment and whether the performances seemed to influence whether Dallas won or lost.
The Washington, Mo., native founded the Dallas Civic Chorus in 1960 and directed it for 25 years. Around the time that the initial Dallas Cowboys’ Thanksgiving Day game launched in 1966 and later became a tradition, Dr. Pfautsch also began annually directing the Civic Chorus as the halftime show. What I do remember clearly, though, is my late dad, Frank M. Adams -- a mail carrier, youth sandlot baseball umpire and coach, and devoted Cowboys fan -- sitting proudly with the family in the stands where only the free tickets given me allowed that costly privilege.
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