The Jerrytron is an embarrassment and Jones' nonsensical defensive statements only serve to make him look stupid or dishonest.
Posted on 08/24/2009 2:13:30 PM PDT by Dysart
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had 75,000 paying guests and a few dozen freeloaders over to his new house the other night to watch football. Punters for the visiting Tennessee Titans immediately showed their gratitude by using his $40 million TV set for target practice.
“I hit it probably a dozen times in pregame,” veteran kicker Craig Hentrich(notes) said.
“I guess,” he added a moment later, “they should have tested things out before they put that thing in place.”
“That thing” is the 1.2-million pound, four-sided video board hanging from the rafters exactly 90 feet above the field in the new Cowboys Stadium, the centerpiece of Jones’ $1.15-billion shrine to himself.
The big screens along either sideline are 160 feet wide—stretching from one 20-yard line to the other—and 72 feet tall. Throw in the “smaller” screens above the end zones and you’d need almost 5,000 52-inch flat screens to cover the same surface.
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The Jerrytron is an embarrassment and Jones' nonsensical defensive statements only serve to make him look stupid or dishonest.
There's a TV there?
Wow, that thing is huge. I recall similar problems back in the ‘70s, with the video & scoreboard “gondola” suspended over the field of the New Orleans Superdome. Eventually, they tired of the thing getting hit and winched it way up by the roof.
It is massive, remember the new stadium volume is 3X the old one.
“I’d hit it.”
Goodness.
That is one butt ugly stadium! I hope visiting team punters always take aim at that piece of crap hanging from the rafters.
The Titan’s punters intentionally targeted it the first (pre-season) game Sat night. The goal seemed to be to embarrass Jerry. And they did so, but Jones keeps digging a deeper hole by denying there is any problem using the most flawed reasoning. IE, he claims that punters use angle punts to the sidelines and thus shouldn’t come near the board unless they were aiming for it. Clearly not every punt is an angled punt, only in certain field position situations...he must know that.
Oh, trust me, the stadium is magnificent in person.
jerry jones is such a jackass. last time his attention-whoring won a playoff game, I wasn’t even old enough to celebrate their subsequent loss with a drink.
What are the “ground rules” if the football hits it during a game? Does the NFL even have ground rules regarding objects having over the field?
I heard that they paid for this stadium by, #1. selling personal seat licenses for the seats, if you wanted season tickets, the PSL was mandatory, and #2, that they were somehow compelling season ticket holders to buy stadium bonds if they wanted season tickets.
Anybody know if that’s how this stadium was paid for?
Geez, a billion dollars plus for a stadium nowadays? Amazing how expensive they are.
yes, because a second-string punter trying to scratch his way onto a roster doesn't have anything to worry about more than humiliating jerry jones. this whole debacle is a laugh a minute. I hope the place burns to the ground (with no one inside, of course).
ping!
“I hit it probably a dozen times in pregame,” veteran kicker Craig Hentrich(notes) said.
Wait. Your pic and this caption don't exactly match, do they?
I’m surprised the league approved the design. Any idiot can look at the pictures and think it’s a bit low, then you read that it’s 90 feet above he field and you KNOW it’s low. 90 feet is nothing for any punter trying to hang one on a short field.
The rule is do-over. Bring the ball and the clock back and do it again. Of course the problem with where that thing is is that it’s so likely to be hit on a high punt (like you get often at mid-field) we could see 3 or 4 plays in a row that get a do-over.
That's a lot of dynamic weight to be playing under.
Don’t know about your other questions, but when the Titans’ punter hit the screen during the game Friday night, the officials convened briefly and then had the play run over again. Apparently that’s the ground rule.
Wow, even punters are getting some pre-game action.
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