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?
Seattle1
09-01-2009, 10:42 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.
Well what do you think now that it's done?
SJLT252
01-20-2010, 02:04 PM
My feeling on the stadium is that it reminds me of a stadium that a dictator would build as a momument to himself. It just seems like with the high cost, prices and big replay board, Jerry built a momument to himself, not unlike when Hitler planned to build a 400,000 seat stadium during his reign.
rantanamo
01-21-2010, 05:09 AM
So teams have opened fancy new stadiums for years, and this one gets all of the ridiculous labels? What about Reliant? Lucas Oil? New Meadowlands, U of Phoenix? Yankee Stadium? American Airlines Center in Dallas which is still the most expensive basketball/hockey arena ever built?
So teams have opened fancy new stadiums for years, and this one gets all of the ridiculous labels? What about Reliant? Lucas Oil? New Meadowlands, U of Phoenix? Yankee Stadium? American Airlines Center in Dallas which is still the most expensive basketball/hockey arena ever built?
1. The new Yankee stadium has gotten a ton of criticism. At least it has on the baseball sister site for this one.
2. We don't have a Basketball or Hockey Fever. I am sure American Airlines Center would be crushed if we did.
3. A lot of non-Cowbooys fans resent the attention the Cowboys receive for everything they do. For a team that just won its first playoff game in over a decade, what they do is sure made to seem important for those of us who are fans of other teams or simply football fans. They get the Yankee treatment without really being on par wiith the Yankees since the Yankees became the Yankees again.
Chevy114
01-22-2010, 09:57 AM
So teams have opened fancy new stadiums for years, and this one gets all of the ridiculous labels? What about Reliant? Lucas Oil? New Meadowlands, U of Phoenix? Yankee Stadium? American Airlines Center in Dallas which is still the most expensive basketball/hockey arena ever built?
I agree with all of ccn's points, but also those other football stadiums had fun improvements like a field that rolls out and a field house kind of look.
To some people there are teams that can't do anything right.
The yankees are always on tv, their owner is too invovled, and their fans are jerks. Now top that off with an overpriced oversized stadium and it gives people even more reason to be mad.
Same with Dallas, the cowboys have an annoying owner and their fans act like their stuff don't stink. So when that is your starting point, of course they aren't going to like your overpriced oversized stadium.
If anyone else built cowboy stadium it wouldn't get the same level of attention negative or postive. Thats why people don't complain about lucas oil, u of phoneix, qwest, or the new meadowlands.