IRVING — Tuesday was the last time WFAA-TV was allowed inside Texas Stadium before it is no more.
Crews on site say everything's on schedule for implosion day, one week from Sunday.
Texas Stadium was once the spot to watch the Dallas Cowboys in action.
At the moment, crews are filling the site with dirt. By implosion day, the dirt will be 40 feet deep.
For one last time, the voice of the Dallas Cowboys Brad Sham, welcomed the crowd to the Cowboys' former home.
"It's a little weird to think they are going to blow this place up. But I think any one of us who has ever had a loved one pass of any kind of a lingering illness knows there comes a point when the frame is no longer the spirit; it's just the frame," he said.
It's a building well prepared for that final fall on demolition day, April 11.
All that is left now is concrete and steel. Most of the metal has been stripped away; gone with it, any sign of the popular Stadium Club, now just a window to Loop 12.
This week, the stadium will become eerily quiet, as crews pack in some 2,700 pounds of explosives into columns now wrapped in black fabric to contain the rubble on the day of the blast.
It is clearly a sentimental day for Cowboy greats, like Billy Joe Dupree, Tony Hill and Nate Newton, who came to say goodbye.
"This building was all of ours and all of yours, every fan, to use for a while, and now someone else needs it for something else," Sham said.
The implosion will take place at 7 o'clock in the morning. The public is welcome -- $25 per car. The money will be donated to charities.
The City of Irving has not said what the site will be used for. Officials are hoping it will be used for mixed usage - meaning a combination of retail, office space and condos or town homes.
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