Dallas Cowboys unveiling new stadium ready in 2009

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:53 am

Actually, there are more of these pictures of the artist's rendering of the new Dallas Cowboys stadium, but this one is good to see what it would look like inside.

**Sponsor**

by **laxguru41** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:18 am

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2695427

Price tagged at a cool Billion!

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:26 am

With the scoreboard hanging over the football field, any Physics majors on this discussion board have any idea of what kind of torque, strength, etc. while considering the winds, rain, etc. in ensuring that the scoreboard stays above and does not fall down on the field. I am sure the builders and engineers would consider that very carefully.

by **Sonny** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:28 am

Video is here:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=107700&catId=312

by **KnoxVegas** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:34 am

All that money to have the same ridiculous roof?

by **Beta** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:45 am

What is this?! A stadium for ants!!? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to play...if they can't even fit inside the building?!!?

by **yourmom** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:23 pm

Brent Burns wrote:With the scoreboard hanging over the football field, any Physics majors on this discussion board have any idea of what kind of torque, strength, etc. while considering the winds, rain, etc. in ensuring that the scoreboard stays above and does not fall down on the field. I am sure the builders and engineers would consider that very carefully.

KnoxVegas wrote:All that money to have the same ridiculous roof?

The roof is a little different in that it is retractable. So when nasty weather shows up they close the roof. And they had to pay homage to that old roof, how else would god watch his team play?

by **laxfan25** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:31 pm

Brent Burns wrote:With the scoreboard hanging over the football field, any Physics majors on this discussion board have any idea of what kind of torque, strength, etc. while considering the winds, rain, etc. in ensuring that the scoreboard stays above and does not fall down on the field. I am sure the builders and engineers would consider that very carefully.

C'mon Brent. That's why they pay those engineers the big bucks - to plan and test their designs so that thngs like that don't happen!

Hartford Civic Center - 1/18/1978

Buffalo HSBC Arena - 9/16/1996

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:36 pm

Like the quote goes like this, "Most folks are like barbed wire fences. They have good points."

yourmom reminded me that the news report stated that the roof will be retractable, so snow would not be a problem anyway. Rain would not be a problem. Hopefully, the gigantic scoreboard does not fall down on the Cowboy Star on the field.

by **SLUDoubleDeuce** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:32 pm

A 60 yard by 20 yard scoreboard??? That's massive. I want to know what that thing is going to weigh.

Jerry Jones does it again!

by **KnoxVegas** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 1:55 pm

laxfan25 wrote:C'mon Brent. That's why they pay those engineers the big bucks - to plan and test their designs so that thngs like that don't happen!

Hartford Civic Center - 1/18/1978

Buffalo HSBC Arena - 9/16/1996

I also would like to add the Gaylord Arena and both Charlotte to the list of arenas will fallen scoreboards. Also the C.W. Post Center collapse in 1978, the Pontiac Silverdome in 1985, the UNI Dome in 1994:

The roof is a bad idea. While Dallas might provide an obstructed view of their team from above, Neyland is wide open for all to see.

by **Madlax16** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:17 pm

yourmom wrote:
Brent Burns wrote:With the scoreboard hanging over the football field, any Physics majors on this discussion board have any idea of what kind of torque, strength, etc. while considering the winds, rain, etc. in ensuring that the scoreboard stays above and does not fall down on the field. I am sure the builders and engineers would consider that very carefully.

KnoxVegas wrote:All that money to have the same ridiculous roof?

The roof is a little different in that it is retractable. So when nasty weather shows up they close the roof. And they had to pay homage to that old roof, how else would god watch his team play?

i think they have put that into mind, and with God on their side, i think romo is safe from a falling jumbotron.

:lol:

GO COWBOYS!

by **Brent Burns** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:26 pm

Madlax16 wrote:i think they have put that into mind, and with God on their side, i think romo is safe from a falling jumbotron.

GO COWBOYS!

That's a winner! :wink:

by **yourmom** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:02 pm

I wonder if i can put this thing on my Best Buy Card?

by **KnoxVegas** on Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:34 pm

Beta wrote:What is this?! A stadium for ants!!? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to play...if they can't even fit inside the building?!!?

I forgot to recognise this earlier. Remind me when we meet to go for lattes and have a gas pump fight while Wham! plays in the background! Oh and for what it is worth, I thought Derelict! was way ahead of its time.

Gotta go. Time for my black lung treatments. Cough! Cough!