![]() “People invest their time in staring at a box,” said Hansen. Hansen’s unrivaled skill is figuring out that something has gone wrong (with the Cowboys or, perhaps, humanity in general) and concluding that he, Hansen, is the only person who can make it right. Nobody watches Hansen’s two sportscasts a night to hear him analyze what happened on a particular play. Hansen ends some of his more pointed commentaries by saying, “Enjoy your day.” Hansen’s localness allows him to look into a Channel 8 camera and seem like he’s talking directly to you. (Asked why he never left Dallas, Hansen told me, “I’m a big believer in the Peter principle.”) He cares deeply about tweaking the Cowboys, Rangers, and Mavericks. “Because I’m going to die in Dallas.” Hansen doesn’t care much about tweaking LeBron James. “Do you want to die in Dallas?” Hansen asked his future wife, Chris, upon arriving in town in 1980. Hansen is one of the last active specimens of a type of sportscaster that emerged in the ’80s. Hansen’s retirement is the end of the Anchorman Era of local sports. “There’s a part of me that’s going to die,” he said. On September 2, Hansen will retire after 41 years on Dallas television. Of course, I get a standing ovation.” That was local sportscasting in the ’80s. I go back to Louie’s, like the idiot that I was. “I nail it,” Hansen told me last week, with evident satisfaction. At that moment, Hansen had no idea who’d won the night’s games. He walked in during the commercials right before the sportscast. “Whoever’s driving the burgundy Jaguar has like five seconds to move it or I drive right through it!” he shouted. He had no idea how long it’d been on the air. A few minutes later, Hansen looked up and saw Channel 8’s anchors. Hansen figured he could relax.Īt one point, Hansen looked up at the bar’s TV. That night, WFAA Channel 8, Dallas’s ABC affiliate, was carrying the roll-call vote from the Republican National Convention for the party’s presidential nomination. In the ’80s, few people raised an eyebrow when a sportscaster repaired to a bar between newscasts. news, his second assignment of the evening. Then he went to Louie’s bar to await the 10 p.m. Hansen, Dallas’s top local sportscaster, did the 6 p.m. The best thing about Dale Hansen stories is that they’re usually true. But all will entertain an immovable idea that when things die, there is someone or something that pulled the trigger. Others will be less trodden and perhaps more speculative. I dream of the day when those parents are wrong, because now they’re not.This week at The Ringer, in honor of the release of Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage, we will explore events that changed the world as we knew it-specifically ones that marked the ends of established eras and triggered the beginnings of then-unknown futures. “Unless it is true what black parents have been telling their children for decades now: You have to be twice as good to go half as far. “After what he’s done with this Cowboys’ defense, how could he not?” Hansen said. On Wednesday Hansen mentioned that Cowboys secondary coach Kris Richard, who is black, appears to be a top candidate for the Miami Dolphins’ coaching job. “But you take a knee to protest the racial injustice in America, and now you’ve crossed a line that he will not allow.” A player can use illegal drugs, time and time again, and still play,” Hansen said. “It’s incredible to me that a player can beat up a woman and play for the Dallas Cowboys. And last year, Hansen called Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones a hypocrite for saying that any Cowboy player who takes a knee during the national anthem will be kicked off the team. He made waves in 2014 with a commentary supporting Michael Sam, who was trying to become the first openly gay player in the NFL. Such candid statements are nothing new for Hansen, 70, who has been outspoken for years on issues of race and sexuality in sports. “But I am the product of white privilege in America and I’ve never denied that I wasn’t.” And I am arrogant enough to tell you, I think Channel 8 was right to give me another chance,” he said. “I’ve had 11 jobs in my life, been fired from eight of them and moved up every time. In his remarks, Hansen – who was twice named the AP’s Sportscaster of the Year – also acknowledged that his race has given him an advantage in his own career. ‘I am the product of white privilege in America’ Neither the NFL nor the Arizona Cardinals immediately responded Thursday to a request for comment. In 2003, the NFL adopted a policy, called the Rooney Rule, requiring every team with a head coaching vacancy to interview at least one or more minority candidates. In a league where about 70% of the players are black, only two of the 32 NFL teams currently have black head coaches. The six coaches hired so far to replace them all are white. Eight NFL head coaches – five of them black – were fired at the end of the 2018 regular season which wrapped last month. ![]()
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