Week #43: Part II Bonus Entry ... How 'bout them Cowboys!! (stadium, that is)

I already knew that I was going curling this week and did not need an additional thing to do. However, I was in Dallas for work and figured that there had to be something to see here. I snuck out of a meeting, grabbed a taxi and was off to see the new Cowboy Stadium.

I took a tour of the stadium and found out a lot of interesting facts. The saying, "Everything is bigger in Texas" definitely applies here. It is the world's largest indoor stadium. The field is 5 floors below street level and raises over 7 floors above it. They set an NFL record with over 105,000 people attending the home opener against the NY Giants. This is the house that Jerry (Jones) built! It cost $1.4 billion and counting. They have the world's largest HD TV screen (and there are 2 of them at 1080 pixels, or something) and weigh 1.2 million pounds with 30 million LED bulbs in each of them. The world's largest retractable doors are also in the stadium. In the old Texas Stadium, there were 54 concession stands. In the new Cowboy Stadium, there are 854. Jerry has the world's largest suite, stretching from end zone to end zone with a small "war room" on the 50 yard line (which is sound proof with tinted windows so he can go crazy and swear during games without the cameras seeing him). If you rent a suite, a 22 inch pizza is $60 bucks and a bottle of Jack Daniels is $300 bucks!! You can fit 2 1/2 of the old Texas stadium inside the new Cowboy Stadium. In fact, you could put the entire Statue of Liberty (including base and torch) on the 50 yard line and STILL be able to close the roof. You can rent out every room in the stadium except Jerry's suite and war room. This really is the house that Jerry built. In fact, they bought all their steel for the stadium from Luxembourg because most US steel comes from Pittsburgh. Jerry didn't want to do anything that would help out the city of Pittsburgh. One last interesting tidbit, The Jonas Brothers played at the stadium a few weeks ago and asked if they could play their XBox video game "Halo" on the world's largest HD video screen. They were told it would cost $4,000 an hour, so they said they would book 2 hours. Crazy place indeed.

Pictures are: outside stadium, 50 yard-long HD screen, ceiling lights in a party room shaped like a football (with the lights shaped like football laces), press box, suite, Jerry's suite (with war room below the 00:0 lights), and the new Cotton Bowl trophy.