Jerry Jones Super Bowl Off To A Rough Start

Ok lets not get carried away. The leak was so bad one guy was cleaning it up with a mop. Thats a non issue.

Ok, but its a non-issue on a 1.3 BILLION dollar stadium that is less then 2 years old. AND its Jerry Jones stadium. So I can still find room to laugh about it.

Apparently the Cowboys, not the NFL, are significantly to blame for Ticketgate. They also screwed over their own fan base, not because of technical difficulties with temporary bleachers, but because of a greedy desire to set an attendance record.

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The butchering of the National Anthem was appropriate for Jerry Jones' event.

Brutal...not that she didn't know the words, but the disrespectful way she "sang" it, trying to put her "style" on it. It's meant to be sang the way it was written. Don't change it up so people remember you. Also, remember the words! :doh:

I wanted to puke. I knew it would be painful to listen to when I saw who was coming out to sing, but I could not have imagined it would be THAT bad. It was down there with Rosanne Barr's attempt, no joking.


HOWEVER...great job by the NFL with the Declaration of Independence presentation (which happened to be on President Reagan's 100th birthday). Great to see Coach Gibbs and Donovan on there along with Colin Powell. We could tell that Jerry had no hand in that production, it went well.

The singing of the NA preluding most sporting events has become a spectacle of one-up man ship to determine who can offer the better rendition.

Since Whitney Houston & Marvin Gaye offered their versions, the chase has been on.

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Roseanne now thinks her offering was stellar.

Funny thing is when I started this thread I thought we would get a quick laugh at a few things going wrong for JJ and Dallas hosting the SB. I did not have any idea that things would get this bad for them. Can someone add "And Finish" to my thread title. LOL

The 2010/2011 season will be one for the Cowboys to remember for a long time.

Now the truly dark side: Jerry Jones was willing to put fans in unsafe seats.

Arlington officials prevented Cowboys from assuming risk of incomplete seats | ProFootballTalk (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/11/arlington-officials-prevented-cowboys-from-assuming-risk-of-incomplete-seats/)

Now the truly dark side: Jerry Jones was willing to put fans in unsafe seats.

Arlington officials prevented Cowboys from assuming risk of incomplete seats | ProFootballTalk (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/02/11/arlington-officials-prevented-cowboys-from-assuming-risk-of-incomplete-seats/)

Inside that article it links to this one:
Documents outline Cowboys' involvement with troubled Super Bowl seating project | Super Bowl ... (http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/02/11/2842287/documents-outline-cowboys-involvement.html)

which gives a step by step breakdown of the fiasco from the regulator's documents. Amazing that they didn't even apply for the permit until a month before the SB.

My governmental cynic side though wonders how much of a risk there was, or was this a case of an over zealous regulator. Hard to know for sure, but all in all it seems like the company Seatings Solutions just couldn't get the job done.

I love every bit of this bad press and financial woes for JJ. If they find him guilty of putting peoples lives in risk or simply using them to generate revenue than I expect him to pay substantially to those families. Maybe he can hauck that mega screen to pay back his debt.