DFW is no stranger to all-star games

By DAVID THOMAS

Sunday's NBA All-Star Game at Cowboys Stadium will be the sixth major pro league all-star game to be played in Dallas/Fort Worth. A look at the previous five:

23rd NFL Pro Bowl

When: Jan. 21, 1973

Where: Texas Stadium

The game: AFC 33, NFC 28

O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills rushed for a Pro Bowl-record 112 yards and a touchdown and caught three passes for 58 yards to be unanimously selected player of the game. The NFC took a 14-0 first-quarter lead on Green Bay Packer John Brockington's two touchdown runs -- he had three in the game -- but the AFC scored 33 unanswered points before the NFC scored twice in the game's final minute.

Dallas Cowboys players in the game: Walt Garrison, Cornell Green, Calvin Hill, John Niland, Mel Renfro and Rayfield Wright.

Notable:

This was the first Pro Bowl since the game began in 1951 that was not played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Attendance was only 47,879 in the 65,000-seat stadium, largely because of temperatures in the mid-40s and 10 players who dropped out and led to the game being dubbed the "drop-out bowl."

Tickets cost $10, up from prices of $5-8 for games in Los Angeles.

Tom Landry coached the NFC against Chuck Noll of the AFC.

Stuck on bad Bills teams during the early part of his career, Simpson -- in his fourth year in... -- Continue reading at the publisher's site