Dunbar’s Inspiring Story Has Ties To New Orleans And Texas

Harry · December 21, 2012

Irving, Texas - This Sunday when the Cowboys face off against the Saints at Cowboys Stadium there will undoubtedly be a fair amount of Saints fans who travel from the city of New Orleans to witness their team play one of the most recognizable franchises in all of sports.

New Orleans, Louisiana and Dallas, Texas are approximately 500 miles apart and the drive might take eight hours or so.

It’s a drive that Cowboy running back Lance Dunbar has made before, however, under very different circumstances.

Dunbar was a sophomore in high school when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. The disaster turned the lives of thousands of people upside down, Dunbar and his family included. Fortunately, Dunbar’s family was wise enough to listen to the warnings of evacuation and made it out of the city before the hurricane hit.

“We were evacuating to Mississippi,” Dunbar said. “We knew it was coming so we left and went to Mississippi.”

Once in Mississippi, Dunbar and his family had left an entire life behind them and were forced to watch the news and see that very same life be flooded and torn apart. Now it was time to figure out where to go from there.

They decided upon North Texas. So they made the trek to Haltom City.

It might be easy to look at Dunbar as a rookie in the NFL and claim that it all worked out for the best, but the process of uprooting his entire life was anything but easy.

“It was crazy,” Dunbar said. “It was like starting all over. You’ve got to meet new friends, meet new people.”

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