Great memories....
The Cotton Bowl stadium is similar.
If it were not for that "yawner" of a game TX/ou every October, the Heart of Dallas Bowl game and some selected high school games, the stadium is hardly used. (Which leaves a great natural grass turf).
Because the powers to be wanted to make sure that the TX/ou game stayed in Dallas, the Cotton Bowl was upgraded and around 20,000 seats were added to bring the seating capacity to over 92,000.
Therefore, the old stadium lives on.......