Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones shells out $1.2 billion for his new Cowboys Stadium and gets a punt-blocking specialist as a throw-in.
Along with all the other amenities one would expect for that amount of jack, one of the doozies is a 160 ft. long, 90 ft. high High Definition video board that hovers over the playing field. Now something that huge can only be placed so high and remain within the confines of the stadium, right?
In a scenario no one could’ve foreseen, it only took one pre-season game to learn that your average NFL punter can reach the scoreboard in one. In Saturday’s game, backup punter of the Titans, A.J. Trapasso hit the scoreboard in the third quarter. This was after starter, Craig Hentrich said he smacked it six times in warmups.
As for Jerry Jones, he has no intentions of changing anything claiming the inherent entertainment value of the board and the strategy that should be used by any NFL punter worth his salt:
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"If you look at how you punt the football, unless you're trying to hit the scoreboard, you punt the ball to get downfield. You certainly want to get some hangtime, but you punt the ball to get downfield, and you sure don't punt the ball down the middle. You punt it off to the side."
"How high is high if somebody just wants to sit there and kick straight up?"
Obviously, “hang time” is not in Jerry Jones' vocabulary. Not to worry because hang time is in the NFL’s and its competition committee that will be meeting today to discuss this situation.
H/T: Deadspin
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3 comments:
I think he should have put the Jumbotron on a zeppelin that floated around the field giving the kickers a moving target. Sort of a miniature golf hazard for punters.
I like it. Then give the remote controls to some lucky fans so they can have zeppelin dog fights or dive bomb the crowd at halftime.
These guys are brilliant, maybe they should run for congress.
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