With the NFL lockout in effect Cowboys Stadium might be un-occupied during the fall. At least Jerry Jones' palace will have a gig to host this summer.
In June Cowboys Stadium will host the U.S. Women's Open bowling event. It's the women's national championship in bowling.
Wooden lanes will be placed at midfield for the championship rounds. Normally the U.S. Women's Open is held in bowling centers with a few hundred spectators crowding the facility.
This summer that won't be a problem. Plenty of good seats for this one.
I bet you are wondering what is the attendance record in bowling?
Glad you asked. 7,212 watched the Men's Open at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit back in 1995. I'm betting that record will be safe. No fans will be kicked out of the building for violating the fire code, like last February's Super Bowl.
This is kind of laughable, but at the same time very commonplace in professional sports. The bean counters of the NFL and King Jerry of JerryWorld were hoping to break a Super Bowl record for attendance in the gigantic, palatial Cowboys stadium. They didn't.
Not from lack of effort though. They announced the crowd at 103,219, which would have put the game just shy of the all-time record, held by the 1980 Super Bowl in the Rose Bowl.
However.....The paid attendance for Sunday's game. 91,060. And yes, that includes everyone who appeared as a celebrity cutaway in the FOX broadcast. We have our doubts as to whether or not they paid for their tickets.
But we digress. The NFL's total numbers are including the 3,000 who paid to stand outside the game in what they called "The Party Plaza". Which would make it 88,060 in the stadium. Oh...they counted the media too, all 12,159 of them. While we are sure our media brethren liked to be recognized, they were there working. At least most of them. That would be roughly akin to counting the "Event Staff" security people and concession workers and other stadium staffers. And we are assuming it doesn't count the 400 or so who found themselves without a seat after paying for one.
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Okay. We get it. King Jerry wanted to make a "Texas" sized impression on everyone. And yeah, he wants them (the NFL) to come back so he can get some help paying bills on his creation. We get that.
We also are well aware that pro-sports leagues overcount fans. You don't have to be at an NBA, NHL, MLB or NFL game to be counted as being there. If you are a season ticket holder and don't come, you still count. If you received a free ticket from someone or as a prize and don't go, you still count. That's why you can go to a half filled stadium or arena, listen to them announce a sellout to you....the only guy in your row of 30 chairs.
It capped off what many feel was one of the worst run, disorganized Super Bowls in recent memory. Yeah, we know the weather was bad. But if you think this was bad, just wait until 2 years from now when the game will be played in New Jersey/New York.
Leave it to OSG Favorite and WFAA-TV Sports Guy/Crumudgeon Dale Hansen to summarize the experience:
The title of this story kind of says it all. Really, how often can you say that a building overshadows such NBA luminaries as LeBron James and Kobe Bryant and Dwyane Wade. Well, Cowboys stadium stole the show. 108,713 fans showed up to watch an NBA exhibition game. Yes, that's right 108,713.
((Thank god for the Gargantu-tron TV//Courtesy: Paul Moseley/Star-Telegram))
If anyone is interested. The East won the game 141-139 and the aforementioned Mr. Wade was the MVP.
Cowboys stadium...a.k.a Jerry World was filled to the max, the crowd actually larger than the 105,721 who showed up at the Cowboys home opener. We can only imagine the view...or lack of one from the nether regions of the stadium, but hey, if you went, you can say you were a part of history. Either that or you had a very good set of binoculars...well, actually you probably just watched the game on the Gargantu-tron HDTV screens in the middle of the stadium. To the naked eye, it would have appeared that you were watching the game from an airplane.
((The sideview is thanks to us and Brother Martin who was in the 200 level))
We couldn't find game highlights, but check out this cool video of the transformation of the stadium from football field to basketball court.
Dallas Mavericks owned Mark Cuban decided to do some venting over the fact the NFL had the audacity to schedule a home playoff game in Cowboys Stadium Saturday night. Cuban's Mavericks host the Utah Jazz the same time the Dallas Cowboys host the Philadelphia Eagles in the Wild-Card playoff round.
If given a choice which game would I attend.... no brainer, Cowboys/Eagles.
As for Mark Cuban, lets just say he's not a happy camper.
"I know we're just little pissants compared to the NFL, but seriously, the NFL is turning into the ugly American when it comes to sports leagues," Cuban told ESPN Dallas.com. "They don't give a crap about anybody but themselves."
Those of us at the OSG HQ think Cuban is ticked off because he has not shot of joining the NFL fraternity so he's crying in his room. Please, you have already collected the revenue from that game. Remember, the Cowboys own Dallas, you just rent it.
((HT: Dallas Morning News/Acosta)) Two workers fell on the Dallas Cowboys Stadium roof while doing maintenance about 7 a.m. this morning.
The men fell and slid as much as 70 feet from the roof's peak onto a lip around its edge, according to Don Crowson, an assistant fire chief in Arlington.
Neither man was using a safety harness...
One worker suffered a broken leg, chest and head injuries, and had lost consciousness. The other man injured his back but was alert and talking to rescuers.
Here's WFAA-TV's coverage from Big Dee... Cynthia Vaega got to freeze outside for her live shot...
Jerry thinks Trapasso did it on purpose- even if he didn't say it out loud...
"If you look at how you punt the football, unless you're trying to hit the scoreboard, you punt the ball to get downfield. You certainly want to get some hangtime, but you punt the ball to get downfield, and you sure don't punt the ball down the middle. You punt it off to the side."
Trapasso disagreed, saying that he'd consider the scoreboard a big issue if he had to kick here every week.
"It's nothing that is going to happen every time, but it's there and it's got to be addressed," Trapasso said. "I don't know how much further up it can go, but it's in the way."
But guess who is on the competition committee...??? Titans Head Coach Jeff Fisher... Those of us at OSG HQ guess it gets moved...
Jerry Jones' has completed his palace for his team, the Dallas Cowboys, and is spreading the wealth to the college game. 5 college football games will be played this season in this new football mansion beginning with the September 5 showdown between Oklahoma and BYU, On October 3rd Jerry Jones' alma mater, Arkansas, battles Texas A&M, then on November 28th Baylor battles Texas Tech. The next week Cowboys Stadium hosts the Big 12 championship game and then on January 2nd the Cotton Bowl game.
The college games don't stop there. The old Cotton Bowl stadium is still standing and seats over 90 thousand fans. Texas and Oklahoma will continue to play the Red River Shootout at the old place for the near future plus that facility is trying to land another bowl game (just what we need) or add some more college games. Some HBCU schools will be playing games at the old Cotton Bowl stadium this year.
It's very evident that the Dallas/Ft. Worth area is making a strong push to become the college football capital of the world. The first class facility is there, a football tradition is there and oh yes even in a bad economy money is willing to be spent.
BIG GAMES IN BIG "D" (AND FT. WORTH AND THE REST OF THE METROPLEX)
At Cowboys Stadium, Arlington Sept. 5 – Oklahoma vs. BYU Oct. 3 – Texas A&M vs. Arkansas Nov. 28 – Texas Tech vs. Baylor Dec. 5 – Big 12 Conference championship Jan. 2, 2010 – AT&T Cotton Bowl
At Cotton Bowl Stadium Sept. 12 – Texas A&M-Commerce vs. Abilene Christian Oct. 3 – Grambling State vs. Prairie View A&M Oct. 17 – Texas vs. Oklahoma Nov. 28 – Texas Southern vs. Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Best Of The Rest
Oct. 17 – Navy at SMU Nov. 14 – Utah at TCU Nov. 21 – Army at North Texas
Since it is close to the season of giving, the NCAA has decided that they would bestow the gift of Final Four for the next round of 5 years or 2012-2016 to you and me.
Certainly the city of Atlanta...or at least the Atlanta Journal Constitution is happy about it, check out the story here .
Here are the list of winners:
2012 New Orleans at The Superdome 2013 Atlanta at The Georgia Dome 2014 Dallas/Fort Worth at Cowboys Stadium (that should be interesting) 2015 Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium 2016 Houston at Reliant Stadium
I would say buy your tickets now, but much like the Super Bowl or any other "Marquee" event they are a little hard to come by.
[HT: http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=6410076]
