Given the simmering controversy regarding the alien spacecraft hovering over the worship area of the North Texas Football Cathedral, Sunday night’s television coverage (on NBC) of the Giants-Cowboys game will include specific focus on the path of a punted ball.
“We will cover our punts differently in this game than we do in a normal game,” Sunday Night Football producer Fred Gaudelli said during a Thursday conference call. “In a regular game, we’re not tracking the ball on a punt, we’re
actually just moving down the field to show the coverage go after the
returner, but we’re going to start initially tracking the ball live
because obviously people are going to be wondering about that right
away.”
There’s another benefit to the decision to track the flight of the ball. Since the question of whether contact was made with the undercarriage of the chandelier will be subject to replay review, the referee will need to have a replay to review.
Sunday, the official grand opening of “Jerry World”.
This is getting ridiculous. I’m a Cowboys fan and even I think the scoreboard should be raised. Even just five feet up would be an improvement.
While they may have settled the issue of moving it, (for now) I have a feeling Jerry’s “mothership” is still going to be an issue one of these days. The damn thing is 60 yards long and weighs about 1.2 million pounds.
What concerns me is that fact that it was built and installed by the lowest bidder.
@CFH
You are obviously a cowgirl fan, and I bet you are whistling a diff tune when on a “do-over” one of the cowgirls gets hurt……..
Dumbazz
I knew this was going to be your byline, Florio. You’re the only one who gives a crap. At least we won’t have to worry about this when you open your stadium.
Punt my undercarriage
Look for a few teams this year to try it on purpose a time or two then run a fake when the other team’s players are gassed.
CFH how can you say this is a non issue. What if the first punt gets off fine but hits the scoreboard and then the second time around it gets blocked??? This is retarded. U2 is raising the board for a concert but afterwords it gets lowered again??? why not leave it up
Typical idiot/Texassan response. The place isn’t fit for a mud bog, ‘er tractor pull, or whatever you inbred rednecks do down there.
Typical response of someone who has nothing real to say, just try to insult those you are jealous of.
Intel had a problem years ago with a new Pentium model chip. They said it was only a problem if you did obscure calculations etc, it would not bother the avg. person etc…Some smart person simply said “Your chip is a lemon, fix it”.
Your Billion $ stadium is a lemon…fix it.
love it. Love it. Love it. Love the Cowboys. I wish Jerry would lower it down 5 more feet, right to the NFL’s regulation. God what fun that would kick off. You thought Cowboys haters had their panties in a twist now. Lower that punk down to 85 feet and heads would explode.
Florio, please refrain from calling the new cowboys stadium the North Texas Cathedral. There are only 2 proper names: “Jerry World” or “Boss Hog Bowl.”
The mothership, 160 feet wide, 90 feet high, weighing 1.2 million, and built and installed by the lowest bidder.
Typical East Coast ignorance, It’s called the Death Star.
why don’t the cowboys name the place”area 51″.
just wondering if they turn out most of the lights at night in the arena,would the scoreboard look like the scene from close encounters??
Look, Feagles is one of the game’s best directional punters. But the guy has his AARP card and is about 30 minutes away from collecting Social Security. He gets his senior discount at the movies. I’m a diehard Giants fan, and even I say if Feagles hits that board, the NFL needs to do a drug test on him that very night. No way in hell Feagles hits that thing unless he’s juicing. And if you EVER saw Feagles, you KNOW he ain’t juicing. I would say that Feagles is the absolutely last punter the NFL needs to worry about hitting that thing. NBC should wait until the next game – when someone born AFTER Pearl Harbor is doing the kicking.
Other questions that have bot been asked are..
1. What is the color of the underside, does the ball blend in with it ala the astrodome when it first opened.
2. Will the tv sceens be in active during punts? Though they do not face the field I can see a player distracted by flashes of light coming from some over the top endoresement feature.
3. What about the ball kicked higher than the bottom along a sideline? you can’t tell me that it wouldn’t have some visual impact.
4. How many times a game will Jerry have his face shown?
“Typical idiot/Texassan response. The place isn’t fit for a mud bog, ‘er tractor pull, or whatever you inbred rednecks do down there.”
We screw your women while you’re at work.
“You are obviously a cowgirl fan, and I bet you are whistling a diff tune when on a “do-over” one of the cowgirls gets hurt……..”
Hopefully your punter will think it smart and cute to hit it 7 or 8 times and tire out the coverage unit so that somebody like Terence Newman or Patrick Crayton can just walk the ball into the end zone.
“CFH how can you say this is a non issue. What if the first punt gets off fine but hits the scoreboard and then the second time around it gets blocked???”
What if there’s an earthquake during the game in SF? What if New Jersey toxic waste blows over the Meadowlands? What if Ohio gets pissed off at not having any professional teams and sues???????
“…# VoxVeritas says: September 19, 2009 10:23 AM
We screw your women while you’re at work…”
Translation:
I don’t have a job.
Second translation.. I live in my mom’s basement, visit milf sites and fantasize it’s your mom.
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