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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.

I can't believe this was allowed to happen by either the Cowboys or the NFL. You spend over 1 BILLION on a stadium and you have such an obvious major embarrassment as punts hitting a low-hanging monitor over the field? At 90 feet, not only could punts hit it, but it seems to me that kickoffs and even high-arching passes could hit the thing.

And the solution is a "do over"? When we were watching the Cowboys preseason game against the Titans the other night, my wife asked me what would happen if the ball hit the screen during the game, since it was mentioned that punters were hitting it in pre-game warmups. She said "will they have a 'do-over'"? I laughed and said "No, of course not", thinking to myself that "do-overs" only happen in back-yard pick-up games. Then it happened during the game and they had a "do-over". I said "YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!".

If a punter crushes the ball on a kick to get his team out of trouble deep in their territory and it hits the screen, he gets penalized here, assuming he can't do it again, and even if does "BONK", there it goes again. Of course it's not really fair for it to be in play, either. Same applies to great kick-offs and deep throws. Plus, what if a ball comes very close to the screen and one team thinks it hit and the other team says it didn't and a fumble or TD return is at stake? Are we going to watch endless replays on whether the ball grazed the screen or not?

If I was the NFL commish, I would tell Jerry Jones he can't have another game there until this idiotic problem is fixed. He can play his home games in the Cotton Bowl or somewhere else - you know somewhere they don't have "do-overs".