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Exactly five years ago today.
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Jerry... ultimate terrorist for cowboys fans
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City of Irving, actually.
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You would walk in and feel the history. It was a special place that didn't need any art to try to make it that way. It had a soul, something the new stadium totally lacks and never will have.
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Texas stadium had history because the Cowboys won championships there. Besides that the stadium was a dump. The outside of the stadium was butt ugly. Inside was dirty. Hole in the roof created horrible shadows. Huge crown on the field. I went to the last game there against the Ravens. Not a game to remember.
I think the playoff game at AT&T stadium was a much better experience. The artwork thing is over talked about. I think its not needed, but its only on the ramps. Its not a focal point in the stadium. I think calling the stadium an abortion is a little over the top. Its worth going once in your life.
I think the playoff game at AT&T stadium was a much better experience. The artwork thing is over talked about. I think its not needed, but its only on the ramps. Its not a focal point in the stadium. I think calling the stadium an abortion is a little over the top. Its worth going once in your life.
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I call it a abomination. A parody of the organization. A lurid and garish Lulu Roman with too much makeup.
Doesn't matter what championships are won by this team while in this shithole, it will never have the history or the soul of the old one.
Texas Stadium had history and character and soul, not merely because of winning.
Now, if you want to try to transform this one, first get rid of the roof or simply stop using it for Cowboys games. Get rid of the pole dancers and the crap art. Get rid of the hulking screen over the field and opt instead for large ones behind each end zone (this will have the happy result of getting rid of the glare from the glass doors which is twice as bad as anything Texas Stadium had as problems) And re-orient it to point north-south like the old stadium did - this was done on purpose to make the visiting team have to be in the sun while our bench was in the shade. Make it alot less friendly to the visiting team, make it alot more about football instead of about Jerry.
If I were to buy this team I would move it out of that crap facility and build one alot more along the lies of the old one.
Any playoff game is going to be a better experience than a regular season game. Ever been to a playoff game or championship game in Texas Stadium?
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Texas stadium wasn’t only used for Cowboy games.
I would be fine with getting rid of the extra dancers but its not that big of a deal.
The screen is fine where it is. Every NFL stadium is getting bigger screens. Not that big of a deal anymore.
Those light rays coming in looks cool. They make great shots.
So you would only spend 35 million on a new stadium?
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AT&T Stadium was built to face the exact same directions as Texas Stadium.
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Except, it doesn't. The sun coming in through the glass in the West end zone should tell you that. Actually, the fact that there even IS a West end zone should tell you.
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These are great shots and really show how the roof was completely independent of the stadium itself, structurally.
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And? My point was i really don't care if the roof is open or not, for other stuff. But is should be open, for Cowboys games.
Yeah, saying "alot more along the lines of the old one" really puts that dollar figure in one's head. Not.
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The home field advantage was great in the playoffs. Its up to the fans, not the stadium.
Here's my gripe with homefield advantage, re: the stadium.
First off... no acoustical advantage was built in. Look at Seattles Stadium. It was designed to where a lot of the sound is trapped and reverberates.
Second off... Cowboys Stadium is such a monstrosity that if you're a fan of an opponent, and you have the chance to travel to see your team play an away game... when you look at the schedule, what game are you most likely going to go to? Cowboys game. To check out the hyped to hell stadium.
I agree that a lot of it is on the fans, but Dallas has long been known to be a cheese and whine fan base (sorry theebs). We've been in that stadium for how many years now? I've heard a hell of a lot of talk about how home games sound like away games, even from players. Only once have I heard of us having a real homefield advantage re: crowdnoise, and yes it was the Detroit game.
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The stadium sucks for football. It's all style and flash and grandeur, but football is a distant second -- at best -- on its priority list.
Which makes it perfect for Jerry.
And you can put me on the list of people who didn't care for Texas Stadium much, either. Other than obviously the great teams that played there, it wasn't anything special and needed to be replaced. I still liked it better than Jerryworld, though... At least there you had some elements of the weather to deal with.
And oh BTW... The sun getting in people's eyes through the windows at Jerryworld is absolutely ridiculous. WTF happened to those huge drapes they had at one point? WTF do people orient football stadiums north-south anyway? But if it ran north-south it wouldn't have been as visible to all the people on I-30, so we can't have that.
Which makes it perfect for Jerry.
And you can put me on the list of people who didn't care for Texas Stadium much, either. Other than obviously the great teams that played there, it wasn't anything special and needed to be replaced. I still liked it better than Jerryworld, though... At least there you had some elements of the weather to deal with.
And oh BTW... The sun getting in people's eyes through the windows at Jerryworld is absolutely ridiculous. WTF happened to those huge drapes they had at one point? WTF do people orient football stadiums north-south anyway? But if it ran north-south it wouldn't have been as visible to all the people on I-30, so we can't have that.
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I remember the team talking about this when the direction the new stadium faces was brought up. I can't find that info right this second, but this map shows the orientation of the old Texas Stadium.
It's not exactly north/south, and it's not exactly east/west. It's kind of northeast/southwest. Just like AT&T stadium.
The reason the sun didn't come through the end zone before was because there were no glass doors behind either end zone. But the sun came through the hole in the roof and shone down on the opposing sideline most of the game during day games. That doesn't happen that way if the stadium had run directly north/south. It would have gone from one sideline to the other.