Thursday is the Cowboys’ final practice at Valley Ranch, their practice facility since 1985. ESPN’s Ed Werder, Jean-Jacques Taylor and Todd Archer have been around the team for most of that tenure and offer up their memories from the collapse of the team’s indoor facility, the Jerry Jones-Jimmy Johnson feud and Charles Haley’s mean streak.
IRVING, Texas -- One of the first stories I wrote about the Dallas Cowboys for the Dallas Morning News was about the team’s new indoor facility and how unhappy it made the residents of Valley Ranch.
The giant structure stood above all else off MacArthur Boulevard, and the residents hoped the team would do something.