The North Texas Football Cathedral has significantly fewer than 100,000 seats. But with the concept of the “Party Pass,” the walkways and platforms allowed Cowboys owner Jerry Jones to cram another 30,000 souls into the place.
The result? A regular-season record crowd of more than 105,000.
The problem? The powers-that-be have realized that 30,000 is about 20,000 too many.
And so, per the Dallas Morning News, the Cowboys have agreed to reduce the number of Party Passes to 10,000.
Which means that there won’t be fans in the six figures at future games.
Which means that the arch-rival Redskins will continue to draw more fans on a consistent basis to FedEx Field, which holds more than 90,000.
But there reportedly might be some exceptions, according to the report.
We’re not sure when those exceptions might arise, given the problems that officials experienced controlling the flow of bodies to platforms in the end zones of the facility. At one point on Sunday night, the Cowboys and public safety officials decided to throw their hands in the air -- apparently because fans were close to throwing fists.
“We believe that it was a better decision to go ahead and let people in versus confronting them in a situation out [on] the plaza based on the how the crowd dynamic was evolving,” Assistant Fire Chief Don Crowson said, per the Morning News.
In other words, they completely lost control of the situation.
And so the Party Pass concept fared even worse on Sunday night than the football team that the new facility has managed to overshadow.
But at least the video board is still only ninety feet from the floor.