The sky is falling.
Wait, no, it’s not. It’s just AT&T Stadium losing parts.
Heading into Monday afternoon, the expectation was for the stadium roof to be open for the first time in nearly two full seasons in a primetime showdown against the Houston Texans. That lasted for all of several minutes in doubt after some sort of mechanical issue sent a giant piece of metal fall to the turf below and left more torn-away scrap hanging in the rafters.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones hates the sun hitting the inside of the stadium, so it’s usually a closed afternoon inside the walls of ‘Jerry World.’ With it being a night game, Jones chose to give the fans a lovely evening with nice weather as part of the atmosphere.
Yet shortly after the roof opened, a large piece of metal fell from the structure. The NFL was forced to get involved and deemed the roof unsafe to be open after a second piece of sheet metal fell once again onto the turf.
The debris is seen in a video posted by NBC DFW’s Noah Bullard.
Here is the piece of large metal that fell from the @ATTStadium retractable roof as it opened @NBCDFW pic.twitter.com/ZYE4G4Dxa6
— Noah Bullard (@noah_bullard) November 18, 2024
Dallas is already without a starting quarterback, a solidified starting running back, a rocky receiving room, a limited secondary and multiple questions surrounding the coaching staff and front office. Now, it doesn’t have a functioning roof.
Which is the one you think fans care about more?
ESPN’s Ryan Clark during a season on the Monday Night Countdown desk set up on the turf at the stadium, cracked, “The bottom done already fell out in Dallas; the top might as well, too.”