sportsbusinessdaily.com - 6/10/2008
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By Ross Nethery, Managing Editor, SportsBusiness Journal Jones Says Appearance, Perception Of New Cowboys Stadium Is Important During his keynote address this morning at the annual NACDA convention, For access to this article and more you must be registered with SportsBusinessDaily.com
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Brog: Now The REAL Reason I Miss LA So Much!
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... the ol’ Razorback had no more work left to be done) Almost as absurd as that cost was Jones’ justification for the obscenely-overdone building - via SBJ’s Nethery: Jones said he could have built the new facility for about $700M. “The reason I’m spending [$1.1B] on that stadium in Arlington is because of perception,” he said. “Only a fraction of football fans will ever set foot in it, but hundreds of millions will see it on television.” How the stadium looks is important, he said, as well as “how John Madden talks about it, and how Al Michaels talks about it, and let me ...
JERRY JONES WANTS TO IMPRESS JOHN MADDEN
ProFootballTalk.com —
Jerry Jones is very proud of the new stadium he built for the Dallas Cowboys and isn’t afraid to let people know that. Jones recently spoke to the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics about the reason why it cost more than $1 billion to erect the new stadium. Sports Business Journal , via ...
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