By BJ Austin, KERA News
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Dallas, TX – Texas Stadium in Irving is stripped down and being prepared for implosion. KERA's BJ Austin says the one-time home of the Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys will fall in a giant cloud of dust April 11th.
600 trucks a day haul dirt into the stadium to fill a 40 foot hold where the field and locker rooms used to be. All the asbestos has been removed - a five month project. Demolition crews are drilling 22 hundred holes for the dynamite that will bring down the landmark stadium on Sunday April 11th at 7am.
Doug Janeway, Irving's demolition team leader, says there are five thousand spaces in the viewing parking lot, and its first come, first served, cash only, no advance sales.
Janeway: We will charge 25 dollars per car. Passenger vehicles only, no RV's, no buses. Understand that the money we raise from that parking opportunity there will go to charities.
Explosives expert Jim Redyke says you'll "hear" the end of Texas Stadium before you see it.
Redyke: You're gonna hear boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, and you're not gonna see anything happen and you're going to wonder, Oh Dear! Well, it's those fuses being lit. And after an eight second delay that sequence will carry on, and you'll see the flashes of the primacord going around in the truss.
Redyke says the stadium will collapse in on itself, and the roof will plop down on the debris like a turtle shell.
City of Irving officials call the event "The Last Tailgate Party."