2009年8月25日星期二

NFL NEWS:Heightens Look Into Dallas Screen

When a punt during the aboriginal bold played at the luxurious, $1.25 billion Dallas Cowboys Amphitheater on Friday hit the gigantic four-sided video lath blind 90 anxiety aloft the field, eyebrows were aloft and alliance activity was initiated.

After all, no amount how majestic the screens are, if they baffle with rather than enhance the absolute product, problems arise. “We’re in the action of reviewing the situation,” NFL agent Greg Aiello said Monday. “Our ambition is to get something (resolved) in a few canicule or so.”

During the game, play was chock-full afterwards Tennessee Titans punter A.J. Trapasso’s bang hit one of the blind video boards. Titans drillmaster Jeff Fisher, arch of the NFL antagonism committee, threw the red claiming flag, and the down was replayed.

“I shouldn’t accept to bandy a banderole out there because (the officials) didn’t see the brawl hit the scoreboard,” he told account reporters. “Something has to get formed out.”

Cowboys buyer Jerry Jones insists his blind video boards will be exonerated: “I’m actual adequate that our acme on our scoreboard is OK.”

So is Cowboys punter Mat McBriar. “Our bold plan is to bang to the sidelines. So it’s not in my mind,” McBriar told the Associated Press on Monday, adage he could hit the scoreboard 50% of the time if he tried. “I apperceive it’s there. But it’s not something that catches my eye as abundant as guys who are blame beeline down the field.”

Even so, Indianapolis Colts aggregation President Bill Polian said his aggregation had advised the ample screens for its new amphitheater endure division but passed.

“We put a metal axle about 90 anxiety aloft the arena and had our punter at the time, Hunter Smith, punt the brawl up there aggravating to hit it,” Polian told Sports Illustrated. “He hit it the majority of the time. That’s why we put our epitomize boards on the wall.”

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