Brian Damage
09-23-2009, 11:18 PM
Having visited the palace Sunday, New York Giants linebacker Danny Clark came away less than overly impressed with Jerry Jones' new $1.1-billion Cowboys Stadium.
Clark told Sirius XM satellite radio that the visiting locker room inside the stadium features few creature comforts.
"There's not a lot of hot water in there," Clark said. "[Jones] cut some corners in the bathroom there."
Clark also was dismissive of the noise factor created by an NFL-record crowd of 105,121.
"It wasn't as loud as you would think 105,000 people would be," he said. "And for [good] reason. I mean, we did a decent job of making some plays so they weren't all over the place, but I played in Michigan [Stadium] where there's 100,000 people. It wasn't crazy.
"I played in New Orleans when we reopened the [Super]Dome in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina.
"That place was twice as loud as this new stadium."
"The orange carpet overflowed with celebrity part-owners and special guests at the Dolphins sold-out home opener Monday night, and not a bit of it mattered," he wrote. "Jimmy Buffett. Gloria and Emilio Estefan. Serena and Venus Williams. Marc Anthony and J-Lo. Dwyane Wade and Tiger Woods. Star power everywhere you looked, and all of it reduced to a superfluous sideshow.
"Maybe one of them could have covered Colts tight end Dallas Clark. Maybe Serena could have shoved a [bleepin] tennis ball down his throat. No amount of flashbulb-popping paparazzi or manufactured glamour can save the Dolphins from themselves if their pass defense continues as horrible as we have seen the first two weeks of this season."
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-random23-2009sep23,0,2038352.story
Clark told Sirius XM satellite radio that the visiting locker room inside the stadium features few creature comforts.
"There's not a lot of hot water in there," Clark said. "[Jones] cut some corners in the bathroom there."
Clark also was dismissive of the noise factor created by an NFL-record crowd of 105,121.
"It wasn't as loud as you would think 105,000 people would be," he said. "And for [good] reason. I mean, we did a decent job of making some plays so they weren't all over the place, but I played in Michigan [Stadium] where there's 100,000 people. It wasn't crazy.
"I played in New Orleans when we reopened the [Super]Dome in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina.
"That place was twice as loud as this new stadium."
"The orange carpet overflowed with celebrity part-owners and special guests at the Dolphins sold-out home opener Monday night, and not a bit of it mattered," he wrote. "Jimmy Buffett. Gloria and Emilio Estefan. Serena and Venus Williams. Marc Anthony and J-Lo. Dwyane Wade and Tiger Woods. Star power everywhere you looked, and all of it reduced to a superfluous sideshow.
"Maybe one of them could have covered Colts tight end Dallas Clark. Maybe Serena could have shoved a [bleepin] tennis ball down his throat. No amount of flashbulb-popping paparazzi or manufactured glamour can save the Dolphins from themselves if their pass defense continues as horrible as we have seen the first two weeks of this season."
http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-random23-2009sep23,0,2038352.story