Problem w/ Cowboys giant screen.

[SmootSmack]

The worst seats in the stadium...toward the end of the video

JJ sure is getting a lot of buzz for this scoreboard issue. Can't help but wonder if he didn't know this would happen and he planned on raising it anyway, but not before the stadium got some more attention.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

The worst seats in the stadium...toward the end of the video

Wow. I wonder how much he charges for that seat. The view will be even worse with people sitting around you.

This screen is more of a distraction to everyone than a benefit.

The fans above the second level will have it right in their faces. It will be tough to concentrate on watching the field with that taking up so much of your peripheral vision. I'm sure it will distract some players from time to time as well, out of its sheer size and brightness.



I just pray it doesn't ever fall. It has happened three times in arenas with much smaller screens.

*In 1988, a 20-ton, $1.2 million center-hung scoreboard at the new Charlotte Coliseum crashed to the floor of the arena, doing $55,000 worth of damage to the basketball court.

*In 1996, the eight-sided, center-hung Sony JumboTron at Marine Midland (now HSBC) Arena fell to the ice while it was being remotely moved minutes after players ended practice and hours before a game between the Buffalo Sabres and Boston Bruins.

*In 1997, the 5-ton center-hung scoreboard at North Charleston Coliseum, home of the ECHL South Carolina Stingrays, fell, killing an arena worker.

We've already had one incident with a Jerry Jones facility this year, their practice tent. Let's hope there is not another, especially when our guys are there. If that thing goes during an NFL game, there will be a minimum of 29 guys right under it (teams plus refs), although it looks like it could hit people on the sidelines too.

This stadium is just ugly. It's more of a monument to Jerry Jones and his ego than it is about creating a great place to watch a football game. I've heard some people in Texas describe its appearance as an airplane hangar.

They should have known better than placing the screen there. Ray Guy once hit THIS screen at the Superdome:


If you look at the BACKUP PUNTER'S kick, it was still on the way up when it struck the screen. There are better punters in the NFL obviously, those with starting jobs, and they'll hit it too. This won't be a single freak occurrence.

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by Buster

I just pray it doesn't ever fall. It has happened three times in arenas with much smaller screens.

The key word there though is smaller screens (ie screens where the teams were probably doing just enough to keep them in their place). This screen is a state of the art type deal and more importantly it's Jerry's baby. I'm pretty sure he's gone above and beyond the call of duty to keep that screen in it's place. Think about how you treat your own HDTV at home and then multiply that by a couple million dollars.

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

The key word there though is smaller screens (ie screens where the teams were probably doing just enough to keep them in their place). This screen is a state of the art type deal and more importantly it's Jerry's baby. I'm pretty sure he's gone above and beyond the call of duty to keep that screen in it's place. Think about how you treat your own HDTV at home and then multiply that by a couple million dollars.

Try $40M.

I'm no structural engineer, but I imagine that thing is hooked up to a pretty elaborate pulley system. I'm sure it's not dangling like a Christmas ornament (even though that's what it is to Jerrah).

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag359

The key word there though is smaller screens (ie screens where the teams were probably doing just enough to keep them in their place). This screen is a state of the art type deal and more importantly it's Jerry's baby. I'm pretty sure he's gone above and beyond the call of duty to keep that screen in it's place. Think about how you treat your own HDTV at home and then multiply that by a couple million dollars.

We're going to trust the man who let his team practice in a tent in a tornado-prone area? I hope you're right though.

Speaking of th Colts new stadium posted above, I heard Mike Golic saying this morning that the Colts placed a steel beam at 90 feet and let the team practice under it. Then they let their punter, HUNTER SMITH, punt with it up there...he hit it the majority of the times, so they located the screens/scoreboard on the sides.

So you can't just blame the league for approving it...apparently all Jerry Jones needed to avoid this embarrassment is a little common sense that others in the league had. A little research or a single conversation with someone who just completed a nice stadium would've shown that it has been tested and will not work.

[53Fan]

If the city told you the roof on your new house only had to be 6 feet tall but you knew you would constantly bump your head on the ceiling would you still build the roof 6 feet off the ground? This is f**king ridiculous.

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by 53Fan

If the city told you the roof on your new house only had to be 6 feet tall but you knew you would constantly bump your head on the ceiling would you still build the roof 6 feet off the ground? This is f**king ridiculous.

you have a point 53, but to be analogous 6.5 would be about accurate, since they built to 90 & the min. is 85.'

JJ sounds convinced that it really isn't an issue for real game scenarios. You have to wonder, like some have said here, if the possibility of drama & more press, is fun for him.

[53Fan]

Originally Posted by freddyg12

you have a point 53, but to be analogous 6.5 would be about accurate, since they built to 90 & the min. is 85.'

JJ sounds convinced that it really isn't an issue for real game scenarios. You have to wonder, like some have said here, if the possibility of drama & more press, is fun for him.

My guess would be that he's eating this up. There really isn't any other reason to talk about the Cowgirls.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by 53Fan

If the city told you the roof on your new house only had to be 6 feet tall but you knew you would constantly bump your head on the ceiling would you still build the roof 6 feet off the ground? This is f**king ridiculous.

Now now. The impoverished Jones had a budget of only $1.2 billion to work with. You can't expect him to get it right.

[53Fan]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Now now. The impoverished Jones had a budget of only $1.2 billion to work with. You can't expect him to get it right.

I know. I really should be more understanding.

[freddyg12]

Buster, I'm not a fan of modern architecture at all, but from the pictures I've seen it looks kinda cool. Definitely better looking from the outside than texas stadium, which looks like one huge chunk of concrete w/a hole in it.

good point about the superdome, they mentioned that on fox the other night that Madden reminded them of Ray Guy hitting the scoreboard.

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by freddyg12

Buster, I'm not a fan of modern architecture at all, but from the pictures I've seen it looks kinda cool. Definitely better looking from the outside than texas stadium, which looks like one huge chunk of concrete w/a hole in it.

good point about the superdome, they mentioned that on fox the other night that Madden reminded them of Ray Guy hitting the scoreboard.

One thing I noticed these days is that domes are now incorporating windows in the end zones. I think part of the reason the older domes were so depressing was because they looked like one giant basement. If you look at Ford Field, Lucas Oil Stadium, University of Phoenix Stadium, and now the new Cowboys stadium you'll see that they're all designed to let outside light in from the sides. Now that I think about it I wish that basketball and hockey arenas would incorporate this.

[Lotus]

Buster, I pray that those screens fall when no one is around. I don't want anyone hurt but I do want the Cowboys to be further embarrassed.

[Ijaeger]

I hear you Buster, I would be scared sh*tless the entire time i was playing under that thing, especially after that other calamity that recently happened. Cowboys = joke

[GTripp0012]

Lechler plays there on Thanksgiving day. He might actually knock the thing out.