Dallas Cowboys Insanity

Comfortable and expensive.

There it is. A huge thing. 1.2 billion dollars. Air conditioned! Luxury all around. Art hanging on the walls. For some time it had the biggest video screen on the planet. Up to 40 year contracts for a club seat. The $140.000 for such a seat buys you just the license to acquire tickets, though. You still have to buy the actual tickets for

the games. But apparently it works. There is enough money around to support even that. Obviously the luxury suites are more in the million dollar range, with minimum leases in the decades. And of course, I wonder if the average Joe Football Fan will ever see a live

game again. But now wealthy business folks can corrupt...uhm, invite...their prospective clients. But that's just my personal suspicion what the suites are for. The owner, Jerry Jones,

is a businessman, though. That gets repeated many times on the tour. He bought the Cowboys for $190 million, now they're worth $2.2 billion. (On looking it up, the Cowboys actually advertise this purpose on their website and exclusively address companies. tztztz...)

Some sound bites from the tour:

Field level suite.

"You can buy those suites for 10, 20 or 30 years. If you do that, you can decorate them as you want to. You can put up pictures or figures...oil rigs if you're in the oil business...I say that because we have it! Now there are also suites down at the playing field, 'dugout boxes,' as I call them. They're the most expensive boxes in the stadium, and they were the first to sell out, even before the stadium was finished. You might wonder 'Why would anyone pay so much for one of these boxes? You won't see much, people are gonna stand in your way.' That's right! The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are going to stand right in your way - Jerry Jones is a businessman!"

"Shortly after the stadium was built, the Jonas Brothers had a concert here, and they had a few hours left after sound check, so they hooked up their Xbox to the TV and sound system and played Halo 3 for two hours. It sounded like war zone. I don't know what they're living for anymore, that's about as good as it gets, it's the pinnacle of life."

All in all, everything there is incredibly over the top. It's impressive, no doubt, but I guess I ten times prefer Fenway Park.

You should see the tourists here. Seems to be the biggest attraction.