Almost Flawless Game As Dallas and Romo Win Big
It was a magical night in Dallas on Friday night as the frenzied Dallas Cowboys football fans got a glimpse of everything they were hoping to see.
First and foremost, the new stadium sparkled. Tony Romo showed that this truly might be a suitable year with a spectacular performance. And the Cowboys won easily with a 30-10 victory over the Tennessee Titans.
For the first football game ever in the 1.2 billion Cowboys stadium, Tony Romo looked like he found a new home as he went 18 of 24 finishing with 192 yards.
The feeling at the new stadium was amazing; the atmosphere was that of the regular season football game as thousands of fans rushed in as soon as the doors opened two hours before kickoff. Many were simply eager to see just how humongous the HDTV video boards were, while some simply want to find the best spots in the standing areas.
Possible Flaw In The New Stadium?
with an otherwise perfect game, the Titans may have exposed a major flaw in the Cowboys stadium as the reserve punter a. J. Trapasso hit the gigantic HD screen that hovers over the football field.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones stated after the game that he doesn’t anticipate this being an issue as the NFL has already signed off on the 160 foot long, in 90 feet high video boards. He is also stated he has no intention to alter the HD screens position.
However, Tennessee Titans head football coach Fisher feels the video boards are an issue as demonstrated by his need to have to throw the red flag as the officiating crew failed to notice the football striking the video monitor.
“It’s an issue, yeah”, stated Fisher who also serves as the cochairman of the competition committee of the NFL. “I’m sure the Cowboys or the league will tell you, I shouldn’t have to throw flag out there because the officiating crew didn’t see the ball hit the scoreboard. Now, it’s not necessarily the responsibility. Once a fair catch signal is given, then there are no eyes on the ball anymore. So they don’t see it. So something has to work out. It can become a problem.”
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Titans versus Cowboy’s Pre Season Game Should Be Momentous at New Stadium
The upcoming game with the Tennessee Titans on August 21 will be the first game ever played at the new stadium. Last week’s game against the Oakland Raiders proved that the Cowboys have a lot of improving to do.
Coach Phillips told everyone that this training camp for 2009 would be the toughest and most involved of his cowboy head coaching career. This does far as proven to be true; in the past 22 days as of August 20 the Cowboys at practice and astounding 31 workouts.
Coach Phillips says that his Cowboys have to prepare for the mental top of his game and when you’re tired, he feels that that’s when the mental process begins.
After Oakland’s 31-10 defeat of the Cowboys there are a lot of good points, that points of how Cowboys will fair in this upcoming 2009 football season. Tony Romo still proved that the regular-season is his by going four for seven on passing for 36 yards.
Perhaps last week’s game demonstrated the fatigue of all the intense practices that coach Wade Phillips has put on the team.
Preseason should also prove exciting between these two teams as Vince Young has complained that he does not start playing he wants the Titans to trade him. The 2006 number three overall draft pick recently told Baltimore newspaper that he either wanted to regain his starting position that he lost last year to Kerry Collins or have the team traded him to a football franchise that was in need of a starting QB.
This game should give Vince the opportunity to prove he deserves a starting position at quarterback. Last week he showed that he might deserve it as he brought the Titans back in dramatic fashion.
Regardless, between the excitement of the two football franchises in the high expectations that they have for the upcoming 2009 and season, the inaugural introduction of football to the new Dallas Cowboys stadium will add all the exuberance excitement that will make for exciting and memorable preseason game.
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Dallas Cowboys Stadium Sold Out for 2009
The sprawling new US$1.15-billion home of the Dallas Cowboys is nearly sold out for the 2009 season. Team spokesman Brett Daniels says Cowboys Stadium in Arlington is 95 per cent sold out. A few thousand season tickets remain. Daniels on Wednesday told The Associated Press that more than 22,000 “Party Pass” tickets, at US$29 apiece, have been sold.
Dallas Cowboys Stadium Nearly Sold Out
The ticket is essentially standing-room only, with 180,000 square feet built into the stadium specifically so fans can hang out during games. Much of the space is on decks and patios.
The retractable-roof stadium has capacity of about 100,000 for football, with 300 luxury suites. The Cowboys play their first game in the new stadium on Aug. 21, facing Tennessee in a pre-season matchup.
A number of the commissions wrap around stadium walls. Others are located in entryways and will be visible to fans seated in the stadium. Artists have already begun working with construction crews to install their works, most of which will be in place for the first regular-season game on September 20, 2009, against the New York Giants.
The suite was filled with Brazilian granite, Canadian marble, leather-clad walls and walnut trim. The front of the bar was wrapped in crocodile leather and stocked with Woodford Reserve bourbon, Patrn Silver tequila and other premium liquor.
Jerry World will soon welcome Sir Paul McCartney to Cowboys Stadium in Arlington on Aug. 19 when the music icon makes his only stop in Texas during his current tour.
The Cowboys Stadium show will feature classics from McCartney’s extensive catalog, including Beatles, Wings and solo career hits as well as selections from his most recent album “Electric Arguments,” released under his alias The Fireman.
The Art Program also encompasses acquisitions of work for existing sites by Doug Aitken, Wayne Gonzales, Jacqueline Humphries, and a second work by Eliasson.
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Hotels Near Dallas Cowboys Stadium
Football in Dallas has always been a long-awaited event that is cherished like church is to a religious person on Sunday. This upcoming 2009 season is going to be one for the record books. The long-awaited opening of the Dallas Cowboys stadium is showing by tickets dwindling to obscurity by day all the way to the high hopes but the Cowboys are Super Bowl contenders.
With all the fervor and excitement, traditional accommodations will have to be updated so this article is a summary of hotels that are around the new Dallas Cowboys stadium.
Here are lists of the few hotels:
- Hyatt. If you’re looking for not only a place that offers luxury but also packages that allow you to tour the new Dallas Cowboys stadium, look no further than Hyatt Place. On top of these amenities each room is equipped with a large flat-panel TV as well flush relaxing day to wind down from all the exciting activities
- Crown Plaza. For the traveler is looking for all of the amenities of home, the Crown Plaza Suites is just the answer. Every room in the hotel is a suite that comes equipped with refrigerators, microwaves, coffee maker, a surrounding that makes you feel like you never left the comforts of your own home. On top of these amenities, you also have access to a top-notch gym that has a hot tub attached to an indoor pool in a bar that boasts five large screen televisions. A car is not needed as the hotel provides a trolley that takes you to all the popular attractions in an airport shuttle that will return you to the airport while complementary.
- If your cowboy fan that on the budget, and not necessarily interested in all the bells and whistles than that move further than the Baymont Inn. This quaint hotel is perfect distance from Dallas Cowboys stadium and the hotel offers free trolley service to the games.
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Pizza $60 at Dallas Cowboys Stadium
The New Dallas Cowboys stadium will not only the NFL’s largest stadium, will also boast some of the priciest amenities around.
If you are interested in leasing a suite for the upcoming 2009 football season, you’ll have to shell around $100,000 and as high as $500,000 to partake of this privilege. With prices like that it should come with a guarantee that the Cowboys will definitely win the Super Bowl.
If by chance your stomach starts rumbling at the new Dallas Cowboys stadium, you can expect to shell out $60 for a yummy 20 inch pizza. The stadium plans to offer five different types and complements that can be purchased for five dollars.
Dallas Cowboys Stadium Like No Other
Dallas Cowboys stadium is a colossus. To simply walk around the stadium requires a 1 1/2 mile trek is this behemoth is 2.6 million square feet. The retractable roof alone could teach shelter Statue of Liberty, and the video board weighs an astounding 1.2 million pounds and reaches a span of seven stories in height and costs $5 million more than the entire construction of the old Texas Stadium which is the previous home for the Dallas Cowboys.
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Dallas Cowboys Stadium
Accommodation has become the name of the game as the new sports economics changes everything from the size of stadiums to the demographics of the crowd.
Ten years ago, pro football stadiums were still mainly for football. They hosted a dozen or so games, including playoffs, plus a scattering of high school contests, rock concerts and rallies for this and that. The rest of the year they were as empty as luxury condos in a recession but Dallas Cowboys Stadium will change all of that.
Dallas Cowboys Stadium Delivers if You Can Pay
Owners now demand column-free spaces and as many luxury suites as the place can hold to pay for all those oxymoronically named “free agents.” (Dallas Cowboys Stadium has 300 at $100,000 to $500,000 per year.) These requirements combine to push upper decks higher and farther away from the field so that in many stadiums the game becomes only a rumor.
Likewise, the demand for more bars, clubs, restaurants and so-called promotional spaces – Cowboys Stadium has 300,000 square feet of them, most in the NFL – means bigger concourses, bulkier buildings and potentially serious circulation problems.
Not All Seats are Created equal At Dallas Cowboys Stadium
Before the first kickoff, it is difficult to say how well the new stadium will work, though a recent preview tour suggests that, despite Jones’ pledge of a “quality experience for every fan,” those in the top deck will be a long way from the action, making the 159-by-71-foot hovering video scoreboard more necessity than luxury. By monumentalizing every bloody nose and late hit down on the field, it may serve as an electronic proxy for lost intimacy.
Although the stadium had yet to sell naming rights, many fans started referring to the project with various nicknames such as “Jerry World”, the “Boss Hog Bowl” in reference to Jones’ continued affiliation to his Alma Mater nickname, the Razorbacks (or hogs) “Six Flags Over Jerry” in reference to Jerry Jones and Six Flags Over Texas, which is near the new Dallas cowboys stadium, as well as lesser known others.
This economic segregation, in which premium seat holders have their own entrances, their own elevators and their own bars and restaurants, is one of the sorrier byproducts of corporate sports mania.
Dallas Cowboys Stadium has a jumbo tron measuring 160 feet wide and 72 feet tall (11,520 sq. feet), the high-definition television screen at Cowboys Stadium is the world’s largest.
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