I like the head canon that Jerry Jones had to make a deal with the NFL that he could build a really cool stadium but in return had to blind his players so as to prevent the team from winning another Super Bowl
I'm confused. For all of those open air stadiums with 1:00 pm kickoffs, isn't this thing you call the "Sun" also a problem? I don't recall curtains at Arrowhead, but do seem to recall this same overhead sunlight crisis in Indianapolis, Minneapolis and other venues which have large windows too.
Just thinking out loud here, but could it be that we just find new ways to talk about and excuse the ever irrelevant Cowboys whether it be "distracting" tours of the facilities, "controversial" player podcasts, "imprudent" owner interviews on morning drive radio, or "deleterious" commonplace atronomical phenomena?
Maybe...maybe...we should instead focus on the $34MM WR who now tells us after signing the mega deal that he needs curtains to catch balls or the $60MM QB who couldn't seem to ever engineer a key drive when needed...
...or I guess we can all wait to read the next expose about how the cherry wood lockers and Waterford crystal trophy cases at AT&T are somehow generating negative feng shui and ruining the players' dope vibes before the games.
Never thought it was possible, but I'm with Jerry here...what a long strange trip...
I'm glad you mentioned the stadium's location in relation to the compass. Jerrah could have still had the East-West alignment but my changing the layout maybe 5 degrees North or South, the afternoon sunlight would probably hit one of the sidelines and the lower level seats and not the field.
Great article, as always.
I am concerned that this line, "Jerry Jones is the closest thing we have to an old-timey king in America", isn't going to age well because....
It is going to rule so hard when England loses a World Cup game over this.
Goalkeeper just squinting for 45 straight minutes as he allows 5 goals on 5 shots
Yeah, I'm 100% confident this is gonna happen. This article is gonna get a ton of traffic in 20 months.
Jon Bois made a great map that shows all college football stadiums directionality in 17776
https://17776-an-american-football-story.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bowl_Game?file=Juicegame_allyards.jpg
OH MAN YOURE RIGHT I DIDNT THINK ABOUT THIS
I like the head canon that Jerry Jones had to make a deal with the NFL that he could build a really cool stadium but in return had to blind his players so as to prevent the team from winning another Super Bowl
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I'm confused. For all of those open air stadiums with 1:00 pm kickoffs, isn't this thing you call the "Sun" also a problem? I don't recall curtains at Arrowhead, but do seem to recall this same overhead sunlight crisis in Indianapolis, Minneapolis and other venues which have large windows too.
Just thinking out loud here, but could it be that we just find new ways to talk about and excuse the ever irrelevant Cowboys whether it be "distracting" tours of the facilities, "controversial" player podcasts, "imprudent" owner interviews on morning drive radio, or "deleterious" commonplace atronomical phenomena?
Maybe...maybe...we should instead focus on the $34MM WR who now tells us after signing the mega deal that he needs curtains to catch balls or the $60MM QB who couldn't seem to ever engineer a key drive when needed...
...or I guess we can all wait to read the next expose about how the cherry wood lockers and Waterford crystal trophy cases at AT&T are somehow generating negative feng shui and ruining the players' dope vibes before the games.
Never thought it was possible, but I'm with Jerry here...what a long strange trip...
I'm glad you mentioned the stadium's location in relation to the compass. Jerrah could have still had the East-West alignment but my changing the layout maybe 5 degrees North or South, the afternoon sunlight would probably hit one of the sidelines and the lower level seats and not the field.
Fantastic article. This made my whole day lol