The Dallas Cowboys officially play in the tackiest stadium in professional football

They spent almost a billion dollars to build that montrosity and they put installed an artificial playing surface in their super expensive eyesore.
:puke:

:thumbsup:

:banghead:

which juuuuuust happened.

Nice design, idiots.

"Okay we'll put the scorboards about the same height above the playing the playing surface to scare away the evil dragons from Mexico" does another hit of acid. "And I'll put in an artificle playing surface in a retractable roof and retractable field stadium" does another snort.

don't forget that

I wonder how this will play out since it can be raised or lowered apparently.
Dallas fans are divided...some are shaking their heads, others claim this is just a quirky feature of the stadium and will be a home-team advantage.
http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/08/jerry-jones-the-scoreboard-isnt-budging.html
Nice fresh meat for the haters.

:rofl:

LOSER!

You can't handle the fact that Jerry Jones just bought a billion dollar dogs playing poker velvet.
:P

I actually saw one of the first games ever played in Riverfront with the Pirates beating the Reds and the GAMBLER!

I want to see it. They want to put the Cotton Bowl in there and make it the fifth (?) BCS bowl game. I think it totally sucks that Cowboy season ticket holders get first dibs on any event held in there though.

I give Obama war powers to prevent that clusterfuck from taking place.

it sort of sucks that OU has to continue playing championship games like, er, Florida in Florida, USC in California. Yes, I think I'd like to play it in Dallas!

Joe Robbie, er-- Pro player stadium er--Dolphin Stadium er-- Landshark Stadium?

:rofl: Where's Trumad so everybody can laugh at his expense?

H4R!! H4R!! H4r!!

The point remains, let's play one in OU's backyard, eh?

FUBYU!

I know nothing of the "professional" sports franchise
of which you speak. GO BRONCOS!!!

:)

In baseball, it's an abomination. In football, less so.

The Patriots and Steelers both installed real grass when they opened their new digs, and it was a debacle in both cases. The Pats share Gillette Stadium with the New England Revolution soccer team, and the facility also hosts a number of other events (the Dali Lama, Kenny Chesney, AC/DC, and U2 just this summer). The Steelers share their field with the University of Pittsburgh. The fields get hacked up pretty bad, creating a dangerous situation for the players.

That means they can grow grass year round in Dallas.

Stuff like Field Turf is safer than grass or astroturf. It has some "give" to it, so you don't have the harsh impact and joint tears that you see in hard carpet surfaces.

The other positive is that it doesn't go to pieces when it gets wet. Bob Kraft cited player safety as a concern when he switched Gillette over to Field Turf just a year after the stadium opened.

football. :rofl:

:rofl:

heard a story yesterday that Mrs. Jones has commissioned local artists to display their works at various points throughout the stadium including above the food troughs!

Classy! For the discriminating football fan who prefers their beer in commemorative cups I suppose.

How many NFL stadiums aren't named after corporations now?

he will try again when the economy gets better

Got intrigued with the discussion of sponsored football stadiums & found out the following: Of the 30 stadia for the NFL's 31 teams (the two NY teams share a home)
    17 are currently sold off and two sold naming rights to individual entrance gates - 63%
     4 are in the process of seeking new name-buying sponsors for current or new stadia - 13%
     6 seem to be unwilling or very unlikely to sell naming rights to corporations - 20%
     I am too dumb to calculate this out to 100%

The stadiums in order of newness are...

Cowboy Dallas - Cowboys Stadium - (waiting for naming sponsor)
Indy Colts - Lucas Oil Stadium - (corporate sponsored)
Arizona Cards - University of Phoenix Stadium - (corporate sponsored)
Philly Eagles - Lincoln Financial Field - (corporate sponsored)
Chicago Bears - Soldier Field - (despite 2003 renovation costs, no naming rights sold)
Houston Texans - Reliant Stadium - (corporate sponsored)
New England Pats - Gilette Stadium - (corporate sponsored)
Seattle Seahawks - Qwest Field - (corporate sponsored)
Detroit Lions - Ford Field - (corporate sponsored)
Denver Broncs - Invesco Field - (corporate sponsored)
Pittsburgh Steelers - Heinz Field - (corporate sponsored)
Cincinnati Bengals - Paul Brown Stadium - (Cincinnati decided against selling naming rights)
Cleveland Browns - Cleveland Browns Stadium - (Cleveland sold naming rights to its 4 entry gates instead - cha-ching!)
Tennessee Tight'ns - LP Field - (corporate sponsored)
Baltimore Ravens - M&T Bank Stadium - (corporate sponsored)
Tampa Bucks - Raymond James Stadium - (corporate sponsored)
Washington Redskins - FedExField {sic} - (corporate sponsored)
Carolina Panthers - Bank of America Stadium - (corporate sponsored)
Jacksonville Jags - Jacksonville Municipal Stadium - (corporate naming rights expired in '07)
St Louis Rams - Edward Jones Field - (corporate sponsored)
Atlanta Falcons - Georgia Dome - (government owned) (!)
Miami Dolphins - LandShark Stadium - (really dumb corporate sponsorship)
Minnesota Vikings - Hubert Humphrey Metrodome - (unnamed replacement stadium in the works)
New York Giants - Giants Stadium - (unnamed replacement stadium in the works)
New York Jets - Giants Stadium - (unnamed replacement stadium in the works)
New Orleans Stains - Louisiana Superdome - (owners currently not selling name rights)
Buffalo Bills - Ralph Wilson Stadium - (corporate naming rights expired in '98 & not resold)
San Diego Chargers - Qualcomm Stadium - (corporate sponsored)
Kansas City Chiefs - Arrowhead Stadium - (currently seeking naming rights sponsor)
Oakland Raiders - Alameda County Coliseum - (corporate naming rights expired in '08 ; new stadium probable)
San Fran 49ers - Candlestick Park - (corporate naming rights expired in '02)
Green Bay Packers - Lambeau Field - (Green Bay sold naming rights to its 5 entry gates instead)

posted elsewhere with JJ's picture in the middle of the field?

Thanks for that one NJM!!

I think the locals might rise up if they tried it.

The Bengals play in Paul Brown Stadium and the Browns play in Clevelan Brown Stadium.

once every time I played there just to see if I could break it. I mean since it is Jerry Jones & the Cowboys after all.... and if I think that way can at least some of the NFL punters not be very far behind me?

I was at the mccartney concert Wednesday and the facility is fantastic. The retractable roof is a godsend because august and September are very hot. And field turf is fine for football. The crew was easily able to adapt the stadium back to football mode after the concert by putting down the turf, which is easier than laying sod. The problem is with parking and traffic. It was a pain with both a rangers game and the concert going on at the same time.