Fort Worth got the best of Dallas one night 40 years ago, and some of us have never forgotten.
Late one Friday night, barely ahead of last call in the honky-tonks and bars, the cities' brawling rivalry came to a head in a sports championship game that seemed like much more.
The beer was still flowing and a cloud of cigarette smoke hung over Will Rogers Coliseum May 5, 1978, when the pro hockey Fort Worth Texans scored a sudden-death, Game Seven overtime victory over their bitter arch-rivals, the Dallas Blackhawks.
When a rookie from Saskatchewan named Kelly Greenbank scored to deliver Fort Worth from 30 years of pro sports frustration (since the city's last Fort Worth Cats baseball title), the crowd sat for a moment staring in silence.