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Cowboys are still looking for home-field advantage at ‘Jerry World’
By Rainer Sabin / Reporter
2:05 pm on September 21, 2012
IRVING – It’s undeniable that Cowboys Stadium is a tourist destination. But the question still exists about whether it provides an advantage to the NFL team that occupies it. Since the facility dubbed “Jerry World” opened in 2009, the Cowboys have played 25 regular-season and playoff games, prevailing three more times than they’ve lost.
The .560 winning percentage there is considerably worse than the one the Cowboys posted in Texas Stadium, where they won more than 68 percent of their games.
Last year, Marcus Spears said the crowd at the Cowboys’ old home was “way louder.”
Earlier this week, Jason Hatcher seemed to agree with that observation when asked if it was noisy inside owner Jerry Jones’ billion-dollar football Xanadu.
“No comment,” he said. “I got to tell the truth, but no comment.”
Yet Hatcher said the team wouldn’t be dependent on the crowd in the team’s home opener Sunday against Tampa Bay.
“We just have to go out there and play football,” he said. “Whether they’re loud or not, whether we have a 12th man or not, it doesn’t mean nothing. We just have to go out there and play Cowboy football. Whether you come in there and you can hear a cricket farting, we just got to go in there and do what we got to do.”
But it helps when a certain stadium becomes known as a hostile environment for opponents. Last week, the Cowboys visited such a place when they went to Seattle’s CenturyLink Field and left with a 27-7 loss. That the Seahawks claimed yet another victory there wasn’t a surprise. Since 2002, when it opened, the Seahawks have won 65 percent of their game at home.
Dallas would like to experience similar success inside Cowboys Stadium.
“We’re definitely going to look forward to winning more of our home games as well as our away games,” safety Barry Church said. “But definitely at home.”
By Rainer Sabin / Reporter
2:05 pm on September 21, 2012
IRVING – It’s undeniable that Cowboys Stadium is a tourist destination. But the question still exists about whether it provides an advantage to the NFL team that occupies it. Since the facility dubbed “Jerry World” opened in 2009, the Cowboys have played 25 regular-season and playoff games, prevailing three more times than they’ve lost.
The .560 winning percentage there is considerably worse than the one the Cowboys posted in Texas Stadium, where they won more than 68 percent of their games.
Last year, Marcus Spears said the crowd at the Cowboys’ old home was “way louder.”
Earlier this week, Jason Hatcher seemed to agree with that observation when asked if it was noisy inside owner Jerry Jones’ billion-dollar football Xanadu.
“No comment,” he said. “I got to tell the truth, but no comment.”
Yet Hatcher said the team wouldn’t be dependent on the crowd in the team’s home opener Sunday against Tampa Bay.
“We just have to go out there and play football,” he said. “Whether they’re loud or not, whether we have a 12th man or not, it doesn’t mean nothing. We just have to go out there and play Cowboy football. Whether you come in there and you can hear a cricket farting, we just got to go in there and do what we got to do.”
But it helps when a certain stadium becomes known as a hostile environment for opponents. Last week, the Cowboys visited such a place when they went to Seattle’s CenturyLink Field and left with a 27-7 loss. That the Seahawks claimed yet another victory there wasn’t a surprise. Since 2002, when it opened, the Seahawks have won 65 percent of their game at home.
Dallas would like to experience similar success inside Cowboys Stadium.
“We’re definitely going to look forward to winning more of our home games as well as our away games,” safety Barry Church said. “But definitely at home.”