Jones ready to unveil Cowboys' new $1.15 billion showpiece to NFL

[madinmaryland]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/08/19/cowboys.stadium.ap/index.html



ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Jerry Jones could have just renovated Texas Stadium. Or he could've built the Dallas Cowboys a nice, new place for about $650 million.

Then Jones really thought about it.

With only one chance to do something like this, he didn't want just another stadium.

He wanted one of the biggest and the absolute best, something that would establish a new category of sports venues, like the Astrodome did decades ago and, in his wildest dreams, the way Rome's Colosseum did centuries before.

Nearly $1.2 billion later, Jones believes he might have done it.

"This," he says, "is the real deal."

Cowboys Stadium is a masterpiece of architecture and engineering, a facility that manages to be tricked-out without feeling like an amusement park, overwhelmingly big without making visitors feel swallowed.

The list of features is a roll call of first-this and biggest-that. The most stunning are the video boards, a pair of high-definition screens that run from 20-yard line to 20-yard line and are 25 yards tall, each the equivalent of more than 2,000 52-inch TVs.

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[NJmaverick]

1. I wish the Giants and Jets had this attitude

with 2 teams buying in they could have made the greatest stadium ever.


That said, I suspect the current economic climate is giving Jerry a few regrets.

[madinmaryland]

2. Are they actually planning anything to replace the Meadowlands stadium?

Giant Stadium is very 1970's.

BTW, JJ has indicated as of last week, they are 95% sold out.

[NJmaverick]

3. Yes they are currently builiding it and it will be ready next season

it will be much bigger and a bit nicer, but it will not be the palace the Cowboys have.

[Auggie]

4. The gold urinals are a nice touch

"From the groundbreaking in April 2006 to the ribbon-cutting in May, Jones spent the equivalent of about $1 million per day."

:o