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21 Nov ' 09:10
Posted Nov. 21, 2010 - 11:16 a.m.
Dispatch from larger-than-life Cowboys Stadium
DALLAS A couple random pre-game thoughts before the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys kick off today:
• The replay board at Cowboys Stadium is as massive as everyone makes it out to be, almost to the point its distracting. The screen is so big and the picture so clear that itll be hard not to watch it during the game. Even as I sit here for pre-game warmups, I can see lights from the scoreboard pulsating in my peripheral vision.
• The stadium itself is quite impressive, too. Bunker suites line the field, an atrium in one end zone, even the floors of the concourse are more than your typical, sticky cement fare.
Lions guard Rob Sims played here last year and offered this scouting report during the week:
Theres two glass things when youre walking out, theres like people thats been tailgating, theyve got a little restaurant right there, theyre just sitting there watching you. You feel like youre in a zoo, like youre a caged animal, Sims said. Its the real deal. New York got that new stadium, its nice but it aint like this one, though. Its like tricked out. Like Pimp My Stadium type of thing.
• Cowboys interim coach Jason Garrett interviewed for the Lions head-coaching job after the 2008 season, when the Lions hired Jim Schwartz.
My experience with (the Lions) was a brief one but a quality one, Garrett told Dallas reporters this week. It doesnt surprise me in any way that theyre starting to turn this thing around because of the kind of people they have in that organization.
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