It sucks to be Jerry Jones. It sucks more to be the guy who built the stadium for Jerry Jones.
The new stadium which is now constructed and finished in Arlington, Texas cost Jerry Jones and the state of Texas a total of $1.2 billion dollars. It was developed by HKS Inc; the same people that constructed Miller Park for the Milwaukee Brewers and Stanley Park for Liverpool FC, to name some of their projects.
The stadium is so popular and in demand that it is already slated to host the BIG 12 Championship Game this year for College Football, The Cotton Bowl from 2010 onwards and Super Bowl XLV(45) in 2011.
When Jones came up with the idea for the new Cowboys MEGA-STADIUM-HOME-HOTEL-HUT-AMUSEMENTPARK, I don't think he had in mind a score board that would eventually get smacked by footballs upon punts the way kids used to do in their gym class.
But that is now the case with the new "Dallas Cowboy's Stadium."
Take a look at the vid and see for yourself:
It seems that the scoreboard is about 5 to 10 feet lower than it should've been. Well, that's because it is. When paying that much money, shouldn't a blunder this serious been thought out and developed carefully?
Chalk it up to Jerry's ego and stupidity which gave him the the brilliant idea for to have a score board that ranges from each team's 20 yard line.
Problem is, this television/scoreboard weighs 600 tons. For all of you who don't do math, thats 2000 X 600 = 1.2 million pound screen. Once it's in place, how does one go about moving it?
The answer: you don't. The cost would be upwards of another $300 million and would delay the stadium for AT LEAST another half season.
When asked about this problem after the game, Jerry replied with this: "Well, I guess they'll just have to kick around it." [chuckling with that cheeky grin on his face]
That about sums up how this is going to go for Jerry and the Boys....
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