Thursday, June 11, 2009

Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

Dallas Cowboys unveil 1080p video screen: "The opening ribbon has been cut and a concert was held last weekend as the first official event in the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington, TX. However, it will be August when the Cowboys games begin and NFL fans will get the first taste of one of the new stadium’s main attractions: one of the largest HD video screens in the world.

Jerry Jones, owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, called it “an iconic symbol of our building for years to come.' That’s because the screen cost $40 million and is an integral part of the massive $1.1 billion stadium. In fact, the screen alone cost more than the entire construction budget of Texas Stadium, the Cowboy’s previous venue that opened in 1971."

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

All my life I've pondered the great mystery of Texas. The filming of Edna Ferber's Giant started my musings. For years I ascribed these strange things to the Alamo myth, and recently I hoped that Hurricane Ike would level both the buildings and the mythology and bring happiness to the least happy state. But now I have a different theory. Texas males have more cajones than a pawnshop, and nothing good will happen in Texas until there is massive surgery.

Richard Wheeler

Kevin R. Tipple said...

I just hope that the stadium is built better than their roofed practice facilty which recently collapsed during a storm.

Kevin
(who expereinced the joy of a funnel going directly over his apartment last night around 7:10)

Seepy Benton said...

Perhaps if we taxed the Dallas Cowboys, then the country could afford universal health care.

Unknown said...

You always have the best ideas.

Kevin R. Tipple said...

If taxed? You are kidding, right?

Virtually every year, the Cowboys pay the most taxes of any NFL team and one of the highest rates of any sports franchise. You don't have to take my word for it. The NFL publishes the figures every year.

I know it is fashionable for many folks to hate the Cowboys and I get that. Sucess at the level they have had for decades breeds contempt by others.

And, I am not a fan of the new staduim known locally as "Jerry World" or of the man himself. But, there is no fighting the fact that as a business man he has been and continues to be very sucessful. And because of the Cowboys, the NFL and the teams in the league, have enjoyed increased revenues.

Unknown said...

I followed the Cowboys obsessively for many years. A little-known fact is that I attended the first pre-season game ever played by the team. That was when they played in the Cotton Bowl. I finally lost interest, probably because of my increasing age, or maybe because the team seemed to have changed so much. I didn't have the same interest in the players as I once did. But I do recognize Jones' genius as a promoter and businessman.

Kevin R. Tipple said...

I missed that first game as I wasn't born yet. :)))

And I don't follow them as obsessively as I used to. But, the same thing is true for all sports for me. Players come and go, everything has turned into a business, and the lure just isn't as strong anymore.

Cap'n Bob said...

So are we going to see Debbie Does Dallas on that big screen?

I'm one of those people who doesn't like Dallas, mainly because of the "America's Team" nonsense. I've always thought the old Raiders were closer to America than any other team--a bunch of misfits that went on to become champs.