Forty-six years ago, Texas Stadium near Dallas opened the 1975 AMA/Yamaha Super Series of Stadium Motocross—a much different gathering than the 2021 Monster Energy AMA Supercross tripleheader that just took place in nearby Arlington
WORDS: DAVEY COOMBS
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When Red Bull KTM’s Cooper Webb marched through Texas last month, sweeping all three rounds of the Arlington Supercross, he did it in the billion-dollar AT&T Stadium, built in the Arlington suburbs by Jerry Jones for his Dallas Cowboys football team. And while it was only the latest version of one of the oldest stops on the Monster Energy AMA Supercross schedule, it could not have been more different from the very first night that Dallas hosted a supercross race. Needless to say, the world was a much different place back in February of 1975, and so were the races.
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