Cowboys owner Jerry Jones sounded defiant, and a little defensive, when asked if he would need to move the team's 160-foot long scoreboard after Titans punter A.J. Trapasso hit it during Friday night's game.
Time will tell if Jones needs to move the scoreboard, but ESPN's Chris Mortensen reported Saturday that the league's Competition Committee is concerned enough to discuss the issue.
Immediately.
The group, co-chaired by Titans coach Jeff Fisher, will get on a conference call this week to talk about the particulars involving the scoreboard. Right now, for instance, hitting the scoreboard isn't subject to replay review. (Fisher threw his challenge flag to get referee Walt Anderson's attention Friday because the officials didn't see the ball hit the scoreboard.)
Mort says the issue was on the committee's radar before Friday, as they spoke about it a few weeks ago. Mortensen expects some clarification about the issue early in the week.
Meanwhile, Jones can't be in a good mood. It's the morning after he debuted his $1.2 billion football cathedral, and all anyone is talking about is what goes wrong when you look up towards its ceiling.
Competition Committee will discuss Cowboys scoreboard
Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on August 22, 2009 1:45 PM ET
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Its really stupid how people are up in arms about something so insignificant as hitting the score board on a punt.
Instead they should talk about how amazing romo and Co looked
you know what they say about guys with big screens...
I say hang the owner by his face from the bottom of it & if the wrinkled, sliding skin (that resembles a ball bag) allows him to touch the turf......she ain't high enough......now get 'er done!
Jones would have looked far better by simply stating that the thing should be raised. End of story - laugh it off.
By being defensive he just looks like what he is - a sniveling idiot who can't admit when he is wrong.
No wonder the guy likes enabling pampered thugs - birds of a feather......
@beefandpork
Yeah, that's what you should be talking about. How Romo looked in his second preseason game. How about talking about how he chokes in games in November and December and how about talking about how the Cowgirls haven't won a playoff game in 13 years.
Jerry Jones in entirely what's wrong with football. A-hole owners who think they've become bigger than the sport.
If you don't catch a fair catch, can't the kicking team recover it?
Hit the scoreboard, hope for a fair catch signal, and a straight drop of the ball, ref's don't see it, unreviewable....boom, you recovered possession and 30 extra yards.
I don't get it. The scoreboard is higher than NFL rules require. If the competition committee wants it moved they ought to pay for it.
"Instead they should talk about how amazing romo and Co looked"
Are you serious? What was so amazing about them? I'm not a cowboy fan by far but I have seen the cowboys look 50 times better than they did lastnight. Granted it was a preseason game but I've seen their first team offense look much better.
This is a non-issue, it's built to be raised and lowered as needed. The competition committee should also ask whether or not Fisher instructed the punter to try to hit the board during the game. If so, that would show that the Titans were more concerned with making a point than putting the best product on the field, and the commisioner should intervene.
I agree with Rosenbloom - Jones must be freakin' that he's goin' to have to smash open another piggy bank to move that monstrosity up a few feet. Much more of this and he'll soon be Jonesin' for the old digs.
You think that's bad? My buddy was at the game, and when the beer guy threw him a bag of peanuts, it hit the scoreboard.
@TFBuckFutter
A player from the defense must touch the ball before the offense can recover, regardless if a fair catch is called.
It's the nicest basketball arena I've ever seen, it just doesn't work as well for football.
Russrpm: Of course they aren't putting the best product on the field. If they were, Hentrich would have been out there. It's a glorified practice. That doesn't change the fact that Jerruh is apparently more concerned about style and show than he is in putting the best product on the field when it does count.
Tony Romo, and company looked great, the Titans played them hard to no avail.
Pre season or not a hard fought victory!!
Way to go COWBOYS!!!
Hooray! Another "hot button" non issue for all the Cowboy haters to gush about! If the league says "raise it" it will be raised. Definitely not the debut ruining event you all so desperately need it to be. Get lives, and grow up.
Russ has is spot on.
as mentioned numerous times locally throughout the week, the video board can be raised and lowered as needed. much like the roof and endzone doors can also be open/closed.
problem is, due to rules/regs ... none of those things can happen with patrons present. meaning, if the stadium roof is open and it starts raining at halftime... the roof has to stay open, due to nfl regs.
anyway, i see it as a non issue. mcbriar was booming kicks 55 yards and had no issue. the kicks the titans were hitting in pregame seemed to be aimed at the board. if the video board wasnt there... they probably wouldnt have gone 25 yards.
its almost like they were playing horse out there.
i still hate romo. people see the numbers and think he's a surgeon out there... when in reality witten and co are out there saving is ass time and time again.
"If you don't catch a fair catch, can't the kicking team recover it?"
You're seriously going to ask a football 101 question like that here?
The answer is no.
It is hardly a non-issue.
If the Cowboys boom a nice punt, that hit the scoreboard and had to be kicked over...and on the re-kick the punter shanks it for 10 yds, get back to me on how it is a non-issue.
If the scoreboard is so easily raised, Jerry would have just said "we'll flip the switch and raise it for punts from now on".....what you are missing is the screen is easily LOWERED....then raised back to the FIXED height.
Any adjustment in the height may delay the big show come opening day, THAT IS WHAT JERRY IS WORRIED ABOUT.
I think they need to move it up 20-30 feet but crying about this is like crying that the field should be widened so that BertFarve doesn't throw so many interceptions. It's within NFL specs, if there's a problem change the specs.
This is not stupid at all. Jerry Jones the great ego manic should have know better than to put a screen up that is in the field of play. What a dope! The Great Jerry Jones Field is as flawed as he is.
1 new TV, still 0 playoff wins in 13 years. congrats Cowboy Nation
its an obvious problem... everytime a team has to re-kick, the players running down the field get more tired which opens up the return teams to break off bigger plays. when desean runs one back on them im sure all the cowboy fans will be crying about it then.
Yeah, the big screen definitely has to go,--texass tacky.
Amazing the Yankees and Cowboys can spend close to $3 billion and still get so many things wrong.
I think they should leave the scoreboard where it is, then on Thanksgiving Shane Lechler can make like a drunk uncle or the Clompas' dogs and overturn the scoreboard and ruin everyone's holiday.
Jerry Jones shouldn't be concerned about this.
He's been unveiling high-priced "top of the line" items in the world of football for years, only to watch them fail time and time again.
Hitting the scoreboard with a punt
"Thestral says:
August 22, 2009 2:29 PM
@TFBuckFutter
A player from the defense must touch the ball before the offense can recover, regardless if a fair catch is called."
Wasn't sure on that. I know they call for it, and then let it go into the end zone sometimes....but usually if a fair catch isn't caught it's because of a muff which actually DOES hit the player....
Just wasn't sure if you call for a fair catch, and miss it completely, and it stays in the field of play, what te rule was.
Yeah, amazing Romo. Rhymes with ...
Romo & co, eh? You go with that until that fat, good-for-nothing, Wade gets fired around week 6 or so.
"Romo & Co", my arse.
"If the scoreboard is so easily raised, Jerry would have just said "we'll flip the switch and raise it for punts from now on".....what you are missing is the screen is easily LOWERED....then raised back to the FIXED height."
Gotta love all the engineering majors in the crowd.
It hangs from cables. Why do you think that it can't be raised higher than 90 feet above the field?
"He's been unveiling high-priced "top of the line" items in the world of football for years, only to watch them fail time and time again."
Oh I know there's not an Eagirl fan dumb enough to bring up years of failure. Bengals or Eagirls, what's the diff?
"when desean runs one back on them im sure all the cowboy fans will be crying about it then."
Are you gonna cry when he spikes the ball on the one yard line and starts dancing in the end zone... AGAIN?
"1 new TV, still 0 playoff wins in 13 years. congrats Cowboy Nation"
Three teeth, married to your sister. Congrats, Virginia!
"Yeah, amazing Romo. Rhymes with ..."
Your mom.
They were going to raise it about 25 feet anyway for the U2 concert later in the year. So they raise it a little earlier and move on. No big deal. Other than that it looked great last night.
VoxVeritas says:
August 22, 2009 5:08 PM
"when desean runs one back on them im sure all the cowboy fans will be crying about it then."
Are you gonna cry when he spikes the ball on the one yard line and starts dancing in the end zone... AGAIN?
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I don't know, will you cry when your secondary falls for it and walks away from a live play AGAIN?
Hahaha!
"I don't know, will you cry when your secondary falls for it and walks away from a live play AGAIN?"
Not if the Cowboys win AGAIN.
"Falls for it"? As if Jackson planned it that way? Who would expect a guy to spike the ball on the one anyway? Dead ball was called as soon as he did it, for some odd reason.