Yahoo - Cotton Bowl stadium sits silent on day of the game that bears its name (Dr. S

[Jenni Carlson]

DALLAS, Texas - A few hours before the Cotton Bowl, the scene at the Cotton Bowl was as quiet as could be. The stadium that once bore the name of one of college football's most famous bowl games was silent. The game has moved on to bigger and better things. It has been at Cowboys Stadium since 2010. Not long before Texas A&M and Oklahoma played in the 77th Cotton Bowl Classic, the old stadium was a ghost town. In the ring around the old ballpark there was one person, and he was getting exercise walking up and down the steps to a chained up Gate A. Two workers inside a tunnel to one of the end zones sat down on their break during a quiet day. A bottled water truck and a car were the only traffic at an adjacent parking lot. The car stopped and asked a stranger for directions. Nobody is asking that the Cotton Bowl stadium resume hosting the Cotton Bowl game. Cowboys Stadium, a little more than 20 miles away in Arlington, is the height of opulence. The Cotton Bowl was opened in 1930 and looks its age. Instead of playing outside on a relatively cold day in Texas with fans cramped into seats that were fine 80 years ago, the Sooners and Aggies will play under a dome under the bright lights on prime time television. That's a no-brainer. Still, it's a bit sad to see such a building that has hosted some of the game's legends become mostly obsolete.

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