After thanking his family and the fans, Haley said, "This is great and this is one of the greatest things that happened to me in my life."

Allen, who former Cowboys offensive lineman Nate Newton called one of the great linemen of his time, was an 11-time Pro Bowler and six-time All Pro selection. He was also named to the All-Decade team of the 1990s. He's eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame next year.

Allen, a soft-spoken man, was brief in his remarks to the fans.

Pearson's name and years played is displayed next to Tex Schramm on one side of Cowboys Stadium, basically the Tom Landry era.

Allen and Haley surround The Triplets, on the other side of Cowboys Stadium.

Calvin Watkins covers the Cowboys for ESPNDallas.com.

Toward the end of Wild River , Elia Kazan's under-seen 1960 Cinemascope drama playing as this week's revival at the Charles Theatre , appears a single image that conveys a profound force. It’s a small graveyard, the setting for a sparsely attended funeral, that occupies a small island surrounded by the Tennessee River. Who is buried there and why is the thematic saga of River even if it’s not the plot, per se, but that this shot carries such an emotional wallop is a testament to just how effectively the imagery tells the story here. The movie is ostensibly the hard-fought eviction of Ella Garth (Jo Van Fleet) from her land; she is the only landowner who has refused to sell to make way for the oncoming TVA dam. Charged with this unglamorous bureaucratic process is the idealistic Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift), a Tennessee Valley Authority agent sent from Washington D.C. for this final clearing. In the process Kazan throws in a subplot of racial tolerance and a steamy romance between Chuck and Ella's granddaughter, the auburn haired widow Carol (Lee Remick), but the movie really comes down to a battle between Chuck and Ella: the New Deal versus the old way, progress versus tradition.

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