View Full Version : Dallas Unveil Plans for New Stadium
...and they're keeping the hole in the roof.
Here (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2695427)is the link.
Personally, the 60 yad score board seems a little extreme. The whole stadium sounds a little too much (the idea of a futuristic stadium sounds a touch hokey) but I will wait and see what the design looks like before being too critical.
Seattle1
12-13-2006, 12:25 PM
Personally, the 60 yad score board seems a little extreme. The whole stadium sounds a little too much (the idea of a futuristic stadium sounds a touch hokey) but I will wait and see what the design looks like before being too critical.
I basically concur with those sentiments. Overdone and phony, not unlike like the plastic surgery on Jerry Jones' face. ;)
Having seen some plans, the stadium is an odd shape but it doesn't look as bad or as hokey as I had imagined. I was expecting to flinch a little upon seeing it given the description in the article but I was mildly impressed.
Click here (http://stadium.dallascowboys.com/) for images/video/tour.
brady_branch
12-23-2006, 07:30 PM
It's like the Taj Mahal: Big, flashy, and cool-looking, but serves almost no purpose.
On another note, it looks pretty cool.
efin98
12-24-2006, 01:58 PM
It's like the Taj Mahal: Big, flashy, and cool-looking, but serves almost no purpose.
On another note, it looks pretty cool.
It's the new home field for the Cowboys and likely for the state high school tournament(s) and a college footbal bowl gamel- that's a purpose.
It is convertable to allow basketball to be played there,especially the NCAA tournament- that's a purpose.
It is a large convention and exhibition space- that's a purpose.
Big? Yes.
Flashy? Heck yeah.
Serves no purpose? Bull plop. It has many purposes and uses.
brady_branch
12-24-2006, 05:35 PM
To benefit society, other than entertainment, it serves no purpose. I have no problem with it, as long as it's not being built with state funds that could go towards making the country a better place. Because, as a football stadium, it isn't really doing that.
efin98
12-24-2006, 07:05 PM
To benefit society, other than entertainment, it serves no purpose. I have no problem with it, as long as it's not being built with state funds that could go towards making the country a better place. Because, as a football stadium, it isn't really doing that.
Don't go to it then. Don't watch games televised from there. Ignore the facility altogether. :rolleyes:
Stay out of both stadiums in Baltimore too, because those were built with public money and are "entertainment only" :rolleyes:
brady_branch
12-25-2006, 06:22 AM
I have yet to go to Ravens Stadium in the eight years that I've lived here. I went to the Yard three times this past season. I think it's stupid that they were built with state money, but what's done is done, and I'm not holding it against the facility. I just have a problem with it being built, I don't have a problem with it existing.
efin98
12-25-2006, 09:22 PM
I have yet to go to Ravens Stadium in the eight years that I've lived here. I went to the Yard three times this past season. I think it's stupid that they were built with state money, but what's done is done, and I'm not holding it against the facility. I just have a problem with it being built, I don't have a problem with it existing.
Hypocrite.
brady_branch
02-05-2007, 02:36 PM
Let the record show that I compared it to the Taj Mahal BEFORE ESPN called it that.
Also, I emailed ESPN: The Magazine to alert them of that fact. I have yet to hear back.
ATLFalcons
02-05-2007, 06:46 PM
Let the record show that I compared it to the Taj Mahal BEFORE ESPN called it that.
Also, I emailed ESPN: The Magazine to alert them of that fact. I have yet to hear back.
I have your back, because I remembered that when I read the Mag!! ;)
brady_branch
02-07-2007, 12:27 PM
The email address is post@espnmag.com, right?