ixcuincle Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 So I've looked over this full thread and this is some comical ****. I guess coolbeans really was "pwned" when the punt hit the scoreboard. What will the reply be, "It's preseason" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckus Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Best. Thread. Ever. This will be an instant classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTK Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 You may want to rethink or rephrase that statement.:dallasuck Yes sir, you are right. Hindsight is 20/20. I really didn't believe a punted ball would go 90 feet in the air. I was wrong. At least it was a Buckeye that hit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTK Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 $1000 sound like a good bet? Ah, if you only would have had the gonads to have made that bet BEFORE tonight, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FightingIrishman Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 It isnt 90 feet ... it is 110 feet. Still a failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy Burner Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 The poke fans were/are totally pwned in this thread. Redskins fans in this thread are not surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeroburrito Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 the set is 10 feet above regulation. the only way to hit it at 90 feet is if you try. the punt that hit wouldn't have gone 20 yards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLongshot Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 BTW, video here: http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d8120f7f0/Cowboys-30-Titans-10 Go to about 3:12 in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofSparta Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Ah, if you only would have had the gonads to have made that bet BEFORE tonight, huh? Yeah, I never saw this thread before tonight, I was just being a smartass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIXX99 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 I just saw Wade Phillips on ESPNEWS. He said that he thought the Titans punter tried to hit it. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aszumilo Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 the set is 10 feet above regulation. the only way to hit it at 90 feet is if you try. the punt that hit wouldn't have gone 20 yards. Ball was on the 35 when they punted, it was downed on the Cowboy 35. That is 30 yards right there. While it wasn't a long punt, it would have gone quite a bit past 20 yards if it didn't hit the TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonnyJ Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 I just saw Wade Phillips on ESPNEWS. He said that he thought the Titans punter tried to hit it. lol He only said it because Jerruh told him to say it :laugh:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedskinInExile Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Actually, I think I became amused that a few people on a fan message board felt they were smarter than a billionaire, professional stadium engineers, and league officials. To think everyone overlooked something soo obvious it simply ridiculous. From ESPN: Both Trapasso, an undrafted rookie out of Ohio State, and veteran Craig Hentrich hit the video board in warm-ups and marveled at how engineers, architects and ownership failed to anticipate the issue. "I hit it probably a dozen times in pregame," Hentrich said. "Probably somewhere around a five-second punt is going to hit it and some of the guys in the league wouldn't be able to punt here if it's not raised, they'd just be non-stop hitting it. I don't know what the people were thinking. I guess they should have tested things out before they put that thing in place. It'll have to be raised." http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4415658 Tee hee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Dominion Monarch 06 Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 Man I gotta say Best thread I've read through in some time Hilarious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighOnHendrix Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Punt-hits-video-screen-at-new-Cowboys-Stadium?urn=nfl,184487 Jerry Jones wasn't happy with the kick, not so much because he felt that somebody on his engineering team screwed up by placing the video boards too low, but because he seems to think that Trapasso was trying to hit the board on purpose. When asked whether he thought the scoreboard should be raised higher, Jones snapped:"That's not the point. How high is high if somebody just wants to sit there and kick straight up? "If you look at how you punt the football, unless you're trying to hit the scoreboard, you punt the ball to get downfield. You certainly want to get some hangtime, but you punt the ball to get downfield, and you sure don't punt the ball down the middle. You punt it off to the side." Jerry always knows best. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SD Skins fan Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 Awesome thread!! If Jerruh refuses to admit his mistake and raise the scoreboard, the NFL should threaten to take away the 2011 Super Bowl. Can't have the biggest game in sports interrupted by a do over, now can we. :dallasuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Califan007 The Constipated Posted August 23, 2009 Share Posted August 23, 2009 tr1 needs to be put into the ATN Hall Of Fame lol :notworthy :rotflmao: GREAT thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tr1 Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 This is why puke fans aren't taken seriously in ATN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popeman38 Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 You honestly think they would put the board in a position where punts and/or passes would hit it?:doh: Apparently everything Dallas does is stupid and you know better, eh?DOH!!! Apparently, Dallas fails at engineering. First, they hire a firm that makes defective bubble buildings. Now, their architecture firm forgets that football requires balls to kicked into the air. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doncherry Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 the scoreboard is an epic fail. But the bottom line is that they will simply raise it the 15-20 feet necessary. I don't mind admitting that I find it personally embarrassing that they spent so much time and effort in constructing such a monolithic stadium only to overlook something so basic. But it can be fixed, and I'm pretty sure it will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tr1 Posted August 24, 2009 Author Share Posted August 24, 2009 the scoreboard is an epic fail. But the bottom line is that they will simply raise it the 15-20 feet necessary. I don't mind admitting that I find it personally embarrassing that they spent so much time and effort in constructing such a monolithic stadium only to overlook something so basic. But it can be fixed, and I'm pretty sure it will be. doncherry, you're starting to make me like you. :adoration: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doncherry Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 doncherry, you're starting to make me like you.:adoration: for the most part, I choose to eschew obfuscation.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDawg Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 You honestly think they would put the board in a position where punts and/or passes would hit it?:doh: Apparently everything Dallas does is stupid and you know better, eh? Yes. So Jerry Jones, the stadium design firm and the league simply overlooked this issue. What will they ever do know?:doh::doh: Good question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsenic Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I hope to never see a debate about this thing falling... yikes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kearney Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 I think that its a bunch of BS that it is just a do over if the scoreboard is hit. What if a punter is in a place where the scoreboard is in the best possible trajectory for his punt? Is he going to have to change how he would normally punt it because the cowboys are too stupid to know where to put a scoreboard? I think the cowboys should be penalized every time it is hit. Delay of game penalty maybe for making them take the time to do the play again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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