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Cowboys Stadium Party Pass Areas Less Congested For "MNF" Game

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Last week’s crowd of 30,000 Party Pass ticket holders at Cowboys Stadium was “replaced with a more sparsely populated group” for last night's Panthers-Cowboys “MNF” game, according to Jeff Mosier of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. The game drew an announced crowd of 90,588, “much smaller than the Cowboys regular-season debut” against the Giants, which drew a regular-season record attendance of 105,121. The "bottle-throwing incidents and unruliness that worried public safety officials at last week's game" did not occur last night. When the gates opened yesterday, fans with Party Passes "sprinted through the end-zone doors so they could secure prime spots on the railing," but that "turned out to be unnecessary." The decks "were never full and good spots could still be had at kickoff" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 9/29). In Ft. Worth, Bill Hanna notes, "Gone was the crush of humanity that left fans at last week's game with little room to move, much less get another beer or watch the action on the field." Arlington Assistant Fire Chief Don Crowson estimated that 7,000-10,000 fans "were in the Party Pass sections" last night (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 9/29).

STAR ATTRACTION: In Ft. Worth, Gordon Dickson reports Guinness World Records officials "were on hand Monday night to certify that Cowboys Stadium's Mitsubishi LED Diamond Vision was the largest high-definition video display known to mankind." The previous record holder was a "mega-display at Tokyo Racecourse" (FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, 9/29). In Dallas, Brad Townsend notes the NFL on September 3 "ordered the Cowboys to move a Mitsubishi Electric ad from the video board's base after it was hit by a preseason game punt," and the ad "disappeared until Monday, when it reappeared atop the board" (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 9/29).

OPEN AND SHUT CASE: In Charlotte, Scott Fowler wrote Cowboys Stadium is "pretty remarkable." Fowler: "The closest thing I've been in to this was the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing." But "one disappointment" is that the roof stayed closed last night. It was an "absolutely gorgeous day in Texas" yesterday, and it "sounds like for all the hullabaloo about the retractable roof that most of the time it's going to end up being a domed stadium" (CHARLOTTEOBSERVER.com, 9/29).


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