There may be no sports facility in the world more grand that the Dallas Cowboys’ $1.3 billion AT&T Stadium. But over the years – 50-plus games or so – it has been the home to what is either a 1) nasty design flaw or 2) clever “home-field advantage.”
Owner Jerry Jones insists it is the latter when on late afternoon games played in late autumn sun beams pours in through the windows on west side of the stadium and threatens to blinds players facing that way.
It happened again Sunday in the Cowboys’ Week 10 loss to the Eagles when a potential TD toss from quarterback Cooper Rush to star receiver CeeDee Lamb got lost in the sun.
When asked if the Cowboys should put up curtains over the windows (as astute Cowboys watchers know, those curtains already exist but purposely go unused, Lamb replied, “Yes, 1,000 percent.”
Jones has responded to this thought often, sometimes defiantly. What we know is that Jerry claims it should be a “home-field advantage.” What we also know is that Jones loves the dramatic aesthetics of the sun beams, which on TV create pictures reminiscent of light shining through the stained-glass windows of a cathedral.
And what do Jason and Travis Kelce know via the brothers’ “New Heights” podcast?
Jerry Jones vs. the Sun is the war we didn’t know we needed @Lowes pic.twitter.com/mE50SnyR2g
— New Heights (@newheightshow) November 13, 2024
Said Travis of the Chiefs, “The biggest takeaway from the game, Jerry Jones is still at war with the sun … I am not gonna lie, playing in that stadium, I have had the (expletive) problem before. That (expletive) glare coming through the end zone in the afternoon is (expletive) ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.”
Jason then quoted Jones, who among other things said, “Well, let’s tear the damn stadium down and built another one. Are you kidding me? The world knows where the sun is. You get to know that almost a year in advance. Someone asked me about the sun, what about the sun? Where is the moon?'”
Fired back Travis: “What the (expletive) is Jerry talking about?”
