SMU suffered the only instance of the NCAA "death penalty" in football when the program was barred from competition during the 1987 season. On Tuesday, WFAA celebrated Hansen's strong takes on other subjects like gun control, the COVID-19 pandemic and former Missouri defensive end Michael Sam, whose courage Hansen lauded after he came out as gay prior to the 2014 NFL draft.īefore gaining recognition for his commentary, Hansen won a Peabody Award for Distinguished Journalism for his 1986 reporting on the SMU football recruiting scandal. Dale Hansen's Unplugged: Counting down 8 of his best moments Looking back at Dale's impact on the community: Unplugged, Thank God for Kids, Scholar Athlete Dallas mayor proclaims Thursday as 'Dale. Because he’s really good on gameday." Hansen credited with breaking one of college sports' biggest scandals "You can get one for your sister or daughter and then explain to her that Hardy beats up women, but we’re cheering him now. The veteran sports anchor at WFAA-TV used his segment, Dale Hansen Unplugged, to address to the retirement of. After more than 38 years, Dale Hansen, the dean of Texas’ sportscasters and one of the most recognized faces in Dallas-Fort Worth television history, signed.
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"Hardy’s jersey is being sold in the Cowboys’ online pro shop now," Hansen said in a 2015 video essay. Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen didn't mince words during a Monday night newscast. When Hansen witnessed Jones wearing his hat in breach of anthem protocol during a rendition of the national anthem at Cowboys practice after making that statement, he had this to say: WFAA Channel 8 Sports Director Dale Hansen doesnt pull any punches when it comes to fans booing Andrew Luck after his decision to retire from football at the. On Sunday, Mark Cuban sat down with Dale Hansen in a primetime special for a reflection on Hansens career and his legacy ahead of his retirement. "Our policy is that you stand for the anthem, toe on the line,” Jones famously said amid the height of NFL's national anthem controversy. In 2018, he took on Cowboys owner Jerry Jones over his hard-line stance prohibiting Cowboys players from protesting during the national anthem. But he's best known nationally for his stark commentary on sometimes difficult subject matter.
He also worked as a color analyst on Cowboys radio broadcasts during their early 1990s run of three Super Bowl wins. Hansen covered the Cowboys, Mavericks, Rangers and Stars after joining WFAA in 1983. “I've been waiting 25 years for the Cowboys to win another Super Bowl, and I can't wait anymore.” And the reason she invited him was for what Hansen calls his favorite commentary - an impassioned defense of football player Michael Sam, who is gay.“There's an old proverb that says all good things must come to an end, and it's true, all good things do,” Hansen said, per WFAA. In the parlance of the day, they went viral, even crazy-viral, and led to profiles in The New York Times and The Washington Post.īut the biggest topper may have been his being invited as a guest on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show. Hansen has enjoyed so many high points during a nearly four-decade career at Channel 8, and many of those involve his biting commentaries. But, yes, the pandemic changed my whole outlook on a lot of things.”
I’m certainly going to try not to do that. Hansen,” and even some of his friends, “are concerned that I’ll sit in a recliner all day and watch the two remaining shows on Netflix that I haven’t yet seen. He admitted that his wife, whom he refers to on-air as “the lovely Mrs. Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen is a fixture of the sports media scene, and his 'Unplugged' segment on ABC affiliate WFAA has never shied away from the sometimes-insidious politics of the sports. Hansen sees it, as do most people, as an advanced stage in the life of a human being, one that comes without a precise road map of what to expect.
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