(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. 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.
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