This week I had the opportunity to tour Cowboy Stadium. We drove in under the stadium and they dropped us off right outside the Cowboys' locker room. When we drove in the Sunday Night Football trucks were there setting up for the Cowboy/Eagles game this Sunday. It was fun to see them all there setting up. They were all super friendly. We started our tour in the Cowboys locker room. They let us take pictures and sit in the locker areas of all the players. It was way cool. From there they took us sown the hall and into the tunnel going out onto the field. There is a huge Cowboys star on the ceiling as you go out onto the field.
I got a picture in front of Tony Romo and Jason Witten's lockers. The wood they used is the same wood used in the Bentley. They grew it special for this locker room. Hundreds of thousands of dollars just in wood.
They took us out onto the field and had us gather as a group at the mid-field star for a group picture, then we were able to take our own photos. We brought a bunch of footballs with us, so after taking pictures we played on the field. We tried kicking field goals, caught and threw touchdown passes and played around. That, in my humble opinion, was the best part of the night.
I caught several touchdown passes here in the end zone, punted a few just trying to see how close to the screen, it hangs 90 feet above the field, we could get and then ran routes and played catch. Way cool.
The end zone. Now I can say that I have caught a touchdown pass on an NFL Field.
The stadium is huge. Originally slated to cost $600 million, it came in at $1.2 billion. The building is over 320 feet tall. What really throws you is that the field sits 54 feet below ground level. So even from the outside it looks massive, but once you get inside it is like a small city. The HD TV, on the left, is 72' tall and 160' long. They have a seven story TV that cost $40 million and weighs 600 tons hanging above their heads as they play each Sunday. The screen has over 30,000,000 LED lights on each side.
The stadium is also home, for the next 30 years, of the Cotton Bowl. The Cotton Bowl trophy and offices are there.
This is the BYU Cotton Bowl score from 1997. I thought that was groovy.
At the end of the night, while we were waiting for our bus, the Dallas Cheerleaders came in to practice. At first they refused to let us go watch, but they relented after they asked the girls and they said it was fine. for us to come watch. I was surprised by how many of them there were. There are over 60 of them.
