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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Random notes from a detoured trip to Margaritoville:
OK, before we dispense with obligatory 72-hour-old comments on the past weekend’s fight card, let’s first provide credit where it’s due in terms of the venue – Jerry Jones’s palatial Cowboys Stadium.
Bottom line, the place is a gem.
And if it’s possible to say of a football stadium, it was a billion dollars well spent… most of it, incidentally, from ol’ Jerry’s own pocket. The Lone Star football czar went undeniably first class all the way, from the press boxes to the luxury suites to the home team’s locker room, which, by ownership mandate, will be used by no other entity other than the Dallas Cowboys.
When the Super Bowl arrives in February, the competing teams will use two other in-house changing rooms. When the world’s most famous cheerleading outfit suits up, it does so in its own reserved spot. And when a certain Filipino and a certain California-born Mexican prepped for their one-sided 12-round bloodbath, it was elsewhere from the big room Romo, DeMarcus and Dez call home each weekend.
Love him or hate him, the guy knows how to establish a brand. And when the team returns to its place of usual NFL prominence next season – likely armed with a big-time coach and a high draft pick –he’ll be laughing his way to the nearest Brinks truck, cradling the gobs of cash people still shell out to tour the place midweek in the midst of a 2-7 disaster season.
How ’bout them Cowboys… indeed. [Click Here To Read More]
OK, before we dispense with obligatory 72-hour-old comments on the past weekend’s fight card, let’s first provide credit where it’s due in terms of the venue – Jerry Jones’s palatial Cowboys Stadium.
Bottom line, the place is a gem.
And if it’s possible to say of a football stadium, it was a billion dollars well spent… most of it, incidentally, from ol’ Jerry’s own pocket. The Lone Star football czar went undeniably first class all the way, from the press boxes to the luxury suites to the home team’s locker room, which, by ownership mandate, will be used by no other entity other than the Dallas Cowboys.
When the Super Bowl arrives in February, the competing teams will use two other in-house changing rooms. When the world’s most famous cheerleading outfit suits up, it does so in its own reserved spot. And when a certain Filipino and a certain California-born Mexican prepped for their one-sided 12-round bloodbath, it was elsewhere from the big room Romo, DeMarcus and Dez call home each weekend.
Love him or hate him, the guy knows how to establish a brand. And when the team returns to its place of usual NFL prominence next season – likely armed with a big-time coach and a high draft pick –he’ll be laughing his way to the nearest Brinks truck, cradling the gobs of cash people still shell out to tour the place midweek in the midst of a 2-7 disaster season.
How ’bout them Cowboys… indeed. [Click Here To Read More]
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