The Cowboys moved to Valley Ranch, their new state-of-the-art training facility, during the 1985 season. I bought what I was hoping would be a state-of-the-art house there in the spring of 1986. I figured since I had just become the Cowboys' beat writer for The News, we would be attached at the hip -- me and this new community called Valley Ranch.
When the Cowboys moved there from the dump on Forest Lane, they were in the midst of their 20th consecutive winning season. They assumed that just might go on forever. I assumed home values would continue to climb.