Cotton Bowl (stadium) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The stadium was featured in a 1981 episode of Dallas where J. R. Ewing meets Dusty Farlow.
• The rock band Journey recorded two videos in the 1980s in the Cotton Bowl.
• The daytime scenes from the video "I Won't Forget You" by the rock band Poison were recorded during the 1987 Texxas Jam on June 20, 1987 in front of over 80,000 people.
• The rock band Rush played their first outdoor concert in the Cotton Bowl at the Texas Jam.
• The 2009 television reality series 4th and Long filmed the majority of its material at the Cotton Bowl.
• In the 1984 Emmy Award winning made-for-TV film "The Jesse Owens Story" done by Paramount Pictures, the Cotton Bowl was used as the Berlin Olympic Stadium for the 1936 Olympics. A local flag maker had to make large Nazi Flags and banners to cover up Cotton Bowl emblems and other Texas State Fair items and such to give the impression that the film took place in Berlin, Germany in 1936.
• In 2010, a commercial for McDonald's was filmed at the Cotton Bowl. The commercial featured Donald Driver, Wide Receiver for the Green Bay Packers.
• A 2010 episode of The Good Guys entitled "Dan on the Run" culminated at the Cotton Bowl.
• The WCCW Cotton Bowl Extravaganza was an annual professional wrestling supercard promoted by Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling / World Class Wrestling Association.It was held in October every year from 1984 through 1988.
• The stadium was the location of the Texas High School State Championship game with the East Dillon Lions in the series finale of Friday Night Lights.