The Dallas Cowboys and the Dallas Oil Business

Clint Ferguson Jr. really, really wanted to own a professional football team He didn't have any desire to own a major league baseball team or an NBA team And he lived in the shadow of this enormous figure Clint Ferguson Sr. who was one of the four giants of Texas Oil. There are three current national football league teams that had their roots in Dallas and can you guess them? Well, Kansas City Chiefs is one That's right, from 60 through 62 But the one they don't get, nobody gets, is the Indianapolis Colts were this team, the Dallas Texans that played In the Cotton Bowl for one season in 1952 Then went to Baltimore; traded with Los Angeles Rams five years later.