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A Big Mess in Texas : The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History

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Author: David Fleming
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 10/14/2025
Language: English
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Product Name: A Big Mess in Texas : The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History
ISBN: 1250374308
SKU: 9781250374301
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      Rattlesnakes on the practice field, fist fights on the team plane, bounced checks, paternity suits, house bombings by the Ku Klux Klan, stadium fields covered in circus elephant dung, one-legged trainers, humiliating defeats, miraculous wins, All Pro quarterbacks getting drunk at halftime, sex in phone booths, and even a future Hall of Fame coach stealing a cab.

      Nearly lost to history, this singular season in the most football-mad region of the world is a kaleidoscope of every larger-than-life, fictionalized Texas football folktale ever written or filmed, with one incredible twist: it's all true. Over a fascinating, 10-month rollercoaster ride in 1952, in the waning Wild West days of the NFL, before television turned the game into a corporation, the forgotten Dallas Texans would go down in history as one of the worst teams of all time and the last NFL team to fail. But not before defying the Jim Crow South, pulling off a Thanksgiving Day miracle against George Halas’s famed Chicago Bears and then celebrating with an even more infamous bender that would make Jimmy Johnson’s Dallas Cowboys blush. A year later, the NFL buried all trace of the most loveable, dysfunctional, entertaining team in history by secretly rebranding the train wreck Texans as the wholesome, all-American Baltimore Colts, the team that would go on to save pro football.

      A Big Mess in Texas tells the Texans’ tale with all the humor, drama, game action, colorful characters, villains, world-class athletes, civil rights trailblazers, and incredible plot twists of that legendary season.

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      Author: David Fleming
      Format: Hardcover
      Pages: 304
      Publication Date: 10/14/2025
      Language: English
      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Product Name: A Big Mess in Texas : The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History
      ISBN: 9781250374301
      Author: David Fleming
      Format: Hardcover
      Pages: 304
      Publication Date: 10/14/2025
      Language: English
      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Product Name: A Big Mess in Texas : The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History
      ISBN: 1250374308

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