The constantly growing popularity of the National Football League has resulted in numerous awe-inspiring and expensive stadiums across the US. Competition to build the biggest and most expensive football stadium in the country couldn’t be higher. At the moment, the Dallas Cowboys organization plans on constructing the most expensive stadium in NFL history.
Designed by Bryan Trubey of the Dallas-based architecture firm HKS Incorporated, this “stadium of the future” will boast a capacity of 80,000 spectators with the potential to accommodate up to 100,000. Building plans for the stadium contain monumental arches, a 661,000 square foot retractable roof with a hole similar to that of their current Texas Stadium, an 86-foot-high glass wall, and retractable end-zone doors. The stadium is scheduled to open its doors in Arlington, Texas in 2009.
The Dallas Cowboys’ New Stadium
“The challenge for us with this new stadium was to innovate, but at the same time never forget to acknowledge tradition,” team owner Jerry Jones said. “This new stadium embodies the spirit of the Dallas Cowboys and that starts with the familiar hole in the roof”.
Another feature worth mentioning is what will be the world’s largest center-hung video scoreboard which will be suspended 110 feet over the playing field. Reportedly, the most expensive American football stadium will cost $1 billion and will also be the largest professional sports venue in the nation, reinforcing the stereotype that everything is bigger in Texas.
The Cowboys’ stadium will eclipse the current most expensive stadium, that of the Arizona Cardinals. The University of Phoenix Stadium, formerly Cardinals Stadium, cost $455 million and is followed closely by Paul Brown Stadium, at $453 million, where the Cincinnati Bengals play.
The University of Phoenix Stadium
With all of these expensive stadiums, one might think the NFL could afford to pay their coaches as well as the most expensive college football coach.
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