Goaters 103 wrote:Granted it's lovely on the eye Ant but just a couple of problems with it. Firstly it also costs a prize packet to sit in the damn thing as it now has to pay for itself when the Cowboys have only 10 home games a year, and the huge lovely scoreboard you can see now needs to be moved about 30 feet higher up and likely reduced in size as well. Unfortunately when it was built no-one thought it would interfere with actual play down below but it does - during the first game there last week The Tennessee punter hit the bloody screen twice when Punting the ball during play.
The result is that there is an argument going on between the Cowboys and the NFL as to who should pay the multi-million dollar bill for doing this so all is not quite rosy in the garden.
The retractable roof was installed to keep up an old Dallas Cowboy fable that there is a window to the sky so "God can watch over his team" just as they had at their old home, Texas Stadium - nice to believe if your a Cowboy fan but a complete load of hogwash. The truth apparently was that Texas Stadium was meant to be a dome but the construction costs ran so high they had to scrap the plans for a domed roof, thus leaving a smaller open roof in the structure as a testament for going over budget.
Goaters 103 wrote:Granted it's lovely on the eye Ant but just a couple of problems with it. Firstly it also costs a prize packet to sit in the damn thing as it now has to pay for itself when the Cowboys have only 10 home games a year, and the huge lovely scoreboard you can see now needs to be moved about 30 feet higher up and likely reduced in size as well. Unfortunately when it was built no-one thought it would interfere with actual play down below but it does - during the first game there last week The Tennessee punter hit the bloody screen twice when Punting the ball during play.
The result is that there is an argument going on between the Cowboys and the NFL as to who should pay the multi-million dollar bill for doing this so all is not quite rosy in the garden.
The retractable roof was installed to keep up an old Dallas Cowboy fable that there is a window to the sky so "God can watch over his team" just as they had at their old home, Texas Stadium - nice to believe if your a Cowboy fan but a complete load of hogwash. The truth apparently was that Texas Stadium was meant to be a dome but the construction costs ran so high they had to scrap the plans for a domed roof, thus leaving a smaller open roof in the structure as a testament for going over budget.
Fidel Castro wrote:Am I the only person who thinks it looks shite?
ramckaymancity wrote:
The funny thing is that was the first thing i thought of when i saw the original photo at the top, that scoreboard looks a bit low! you look at the photo from behind the goal and the distance is huge! it must have been some punt!
avoidconfusion wrote:ramckaymancity wrote:
The funny thing is that was the first thing i thought of when i saw the original photo at the top, that scoreboard looks a bit low! you look at the photo from behind the goal and the distance is huge! it must have been some punt!
That's the first thing that crossed my mind as well haha.
avoidconfusion wrote:ramckaymancity wrote:
The funny thing is that was the first thing i thought of when i saw the original photo at the top, that scoreboard looks a bit low! you look at the photo from behind the goal and the distance is huge! it must have been some punt!
That's the first thing that crossed my mind as well haha.
Piccsnumberoneblue wrote:On the night of the Robinho transfer I was chatting outside the ground with a couple of other Blues about increasing capacity of Eastlands. We all remembered that at the time it was built we were told it wasn't really designed with expansion in mind, and whilst it could be done the cost would be very large.
One of these guys suggested that with the money available, the best and quite possibly most feasible plan might be just to build another from scratch instead, with facilities on a par with the very best, rather than a piecemeal bodge job. It's a thought.
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