It Has to be Bigger in Texas

The Dallas Cowboys spent $1.2 billion on a new stadium this off-season. That's billion, with a "b."

And for that money they get the most cutting edge stadium in the world, complete with the largest high definition screens on the planet, and, the pleasure of being the first NFL team to have to come up with ground rules.

In yesterday's preseason game, Titans' back-up punter A. J. Trapasso hit the giant screens with a routine punt. NFL rules state that the down be replayed, which surprises me because I didn't know this was ever an issue.

Jerry Jones for one is not happy. He thinks Trapasso was aiming at the screen. He also said that screens are not moving. He doesn't think punts ever go straight or high. I guess $1.2 billion doesn't buy you knowledge of the game either.

Craig Hentrich, the Titans' starting punter said he hit the screen at least a dozen times in pregame. He said any punt designed to have five seconds or more of hang-time is going to hit that screen.

This is not the first time something like this happened this year. We all know the Yankees spent the GDP of a third world country on their new stadium too. And they made sure to put a jet-stream to right field.

Who would have guessed that over $2 billion spent could allow one to stand the fifty-yard line with one of those t-shirt guns and thunk!, hit the screen, and then take that same t-shirt gun to Yankee Stadium, stand on home plate and put one over the wall.

And to all of this I say...

Bwahhahahaha!