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Cowboys Stadium: Ready to score
A 180-foot-long high-definition scoreboard, now being built on the ground, will eventually hang 90 feet above the playing field
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The 180-foot-long digital scoreboard is starting to take shape on the field of the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington.
Crews have begun welding together a metal frame that will hold the high-definition LED scoreboard, made by Mitsubishi, that will stretch from 20-yard line to 20-yard line.
"They’ll assemble the scoreboard on the ground, and then with jacks they’ll jack it up in the air, and it will dead-hang about 90 feet off the surface of the field," said Jack Hill, construction manager. Last year, at the Dallas Cowboys training camp in San Antonio, the team had its punter kick a football as high as he could to measure how low the scoreboard could hang in the new stadium.
Hill said crews have also finished placing all of the concrete risers in the bowl of the stadium and are preparing to install the first seat this month.
1,500 workers on site
every day
270 feet between the field and the top of the quarter-mile arch that supports the roof
3,200 feet of catwalks surround the stadium’s upper concourse
180 feet, the length of the scoreboard being assembled on the floor of the stadium
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