Sutton was well known in beauty pageant circles, having competed locally in the Miss Universe contest, and was considered to be the most photographed woman in Texas at the time. To no surprise, she was elected the team's first "Miss Dallas Texan."
Sutton was expected to know her football. Consequently, she was prepped after each game by team publicist Bob Halford to be ready for any manner of question that might be thrown her way.
"They insisted that I knew every aspect of the game and our team," she remembered.
Indeed, an early newspaper clipping from the Dallas Morning News in October of 1960 has her issuing forth on a recent Texans loss to the Boston Patriots. "\[Head coach\] Mr. Stram's right," she says. Sutton was agreeing with the Dallas head coach questioning an official's no-call on an offsides that reportedly cost the Texans the game.
Over time, Sutton became a familiar figure to Texans followers and was almost as well recognized as some team members. She hosted a series of events associated with the fledgling franchise and was seen as an important promotional tool.
"Every day I was cutting ribbons, doing photo sessions or going to important luncheons representing the team," she recalled. Sift through enough old newspaper clippings from that era and you'll see Sutton in a myriad of promotional photos sitting with a favored Texans player, helping to sell tickets from as far away as Abilene and Wichita Falls, or even showing up at the team's first training camp in Roswell, New Mexico.
"It was great fun for such a young girl to have these experiences," she offered, looking back on her formative years. Expected to serve a role even at road games where she was prepped by Halford, Sutton did television interviews upon arrival and was promoted to, in her words, "give my opinion about the state of the Texans team and its players."