DEC 3, 12 .. THE DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM .. AN ABSOLUTE MUST SEE !

IF  YOU  ARE  A  SPORTS  FAN ..

IF  YOU  ARE  AN  ‘NFL‘  FOOTBALL  FAN  ..

ABSOLUTELY  PUT  ON  YOUR :  ‘BEFORE-I-KICK-THE-BUCKET‘  LIST  I-MUST-DO-THIS ..

I  MUST  ATTEND ..  IN-PERSON ..  AN  ‘NFL‘  FOOTBALL  GAME  AT  THE DALLAS  COWBOYS  FOOTBALL  STADIUM .. IN  ARLINGTON,  TEXAS .. 

Literally .. Patti and I experienced a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ event last night here in Arlington, Texas, when we saw the Dallas Cowboys play the Philadelphia Eagles at Cowboys Stadium.  It truly was a ‘life-enhancing’ event .. our lives are a little bit richer because of it.  The stadium itself is a true work of art.  The stadium experience .. in and of itself .. overwhelms, in many ways, the game !  All evening long Patti and I kept saying to each other .. “Isn’t this absolutely amazing !” 

The Stadium overhead roof was open .. the gigantic doors at each end of the Stadium were also open .. a wonderful breeze wafted through the Stadium all evening long .. it was in a word .. mesmerizing !

OK ..

ASSUMING THAT YOU HAVE A CHOICE .. and you may not have a choice because you may not be able to get tickets .. this is the rule and not the exception because many ‘NFL’ games are sold-out .. but if you do have the choice to attend-in-person a game or sit home and watch the game on television .. you have two separate and you have two distinct opinions / attitudes regarding this DO WE / DON’T WE debate.

I must say that this pretty much applies to watching a FOOTBALL game.  In basketball for instance .. because there are only ten players on the light-in-color-floor and not twenty two players on a dark-green-grass-surface  .. and because a basketball is larger in size than a football .. and because a basketball game .. in general .. moves a little slower and is much less complex .. the sit-home or go-to-the-game decision is much less of a debate .. because being physically at a basketball game you can see the game VERY well ..  

So here is ‘my take’ on the debate .. Do you .. Stay At Home .. OR .. Do you  .. Go To The Game In Person ..

1.  Stay At Home :  In the comfort and in the quiet of your home, to some large degree, YOU CAN SEE THE GAME MUCH BETTER ON TELEVISION THAN YOU CAN when you are physically in attendance AT-THE-GAME .. and it does not cost you an arm and a leg and several hundreds of dollars PLUS all of your necessary ‘facilities’ and creature comforts  are at-arms-reach when you are comfortably at home ! 

Note that above I do qualify the at-home experience saying .. 'to some large degree' you can see the game better at home.  It is a fact that at-the-game you get an 'overview' of the entire scene you do not and can not and will never get at home !   

2.  Go To The Game In Person :  There are many negative factors in going to the game in person .. you must face the traffic and the vehicle parking both going to and returning home from the game and you also have all of the cost(s) involved (tickets / parking / gasoline / food / your time ) and then you have the great inconvenience of public toilets and in some cases the weather could be poor  and then you also have the general ‘hassle’ of being elbow-to-elbow with literally tens-of-thousands of sporting fans .. at Cowboys Stadium you are talking about 80,000 people .. some are intoxicated and some are a challenge to all that is civil and proper in society ..

Why on earth would you even want to go to the game ?   BECAUSE THE ENERGY AND THE EXCITEMENT AND THE PRE-GAME AND GAME ‘GIDDYNESS’  IS ABSOLUTELY PHENOMENAL !   Sitting at home you absolutely CANNOT DUPLICATE  the phenomenal giddy feelings and electric excitement and explosive energy you find at-the-game.  Sitting in the quiet of your home in front of your television you are .. in a word .. quiet !

FOR ME THE AT-THE-GAME EXPERIENCE IS FUN AND AN ADVENTURE AND YES A CHALLENGE THAT I LOVE !

This being said I cannot justify for anyone else the cost(s) of going to a game.  It does not exactly 'compute' in a positive number !  By-the-way, I did not mention that recently there have been horrific and terrible stories of fan-  violence towards each other before and during and even after games.  

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NOTE: In Detroit .. In New Orleans .. In Dallas last night .. at each of these three venues there were a good number of uniformed and plain clothes security personnel.  Over public address systems and on various video and television screens 'Rules of Acceptable Conduct' were repeated.  In each venue spectators were advised to IMMEDIATELY call or IMMEDIATELY text security IF ANY PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER AROSE.  And let me tell you all .. Patti and I had the feeling this was SERIOUS BUSINESS AND THAT NO NONSENSE WOULD BE TOLERATED P-E-R-I-O-D ! 

Back to Cowboys Stadium .. I CAN discuss the debate about the quality of SEEING THE GAME at home or watching the game at the Stadium ..

At the Dallas Cowboys Stadium YOU CAN PRETTY MUCH HAVE-IT-ALL .. BECAUSE OF THE INCREDIBLE AND BECAUSE OF THE PHENOMENAL ‘JUMBOTRON’ .

The ‘JUMBOTRON’ .. is (this is an understatement !) a gigantic television set located directly above the football field .. the ‘JUMBOTRON’ is so large that it extends from one 20-yard-line to the other 20-yard-line and is properly proportioned to duplicate your television set at home.  There are also two smaller ‘JUMBOTRONS’ facing each end zone ..

SO BECAUSE OF THE ‘JUMBOTRON’ AT THE DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM .. YOU CAN  SIT COMFORTABLY INDOORS  AND WATCH THE GAME ON TELEVISION AND AT THE SAME TIME EXPERIENCE ALL OF THE BENEFITS OF BEING AT-THE-GAME IN PERSON !

Of course you do NOT have to watch the 'JUMBOTRON' because you can also just watch  the game as it unfolds on-the-field and NOT look up at the ‘JUMBOTRON’.   At times the ‘NBC PEACOCK LOGO’ was visible on the ‘JUMBOTRON’ so we were watching in-the-stadium what the rest of the country was watching on the NBC Televison Network !  Patti and I were having our cake and eating our cake too !  Sucha-deal-you-wouldn't-believe !

I can't add too much more about the experience of sitting in Cowboys Stadium yesterday and watching the game.   To fully understand what I am trying to express you MUST experience it yourself  !

TO REPEAT MYSELF :  IF you are a fan of the ‘NFL’ .. you owe-it-to-yourself to .. at least once in this lifetime .. come to Dallas / Arlington, Texas, and experience a game at Cowboys Stadium !

Much MUCH Joy .. Patti and Cap ..