Stadium Central

Plans for two new stadiums were unveiled in the past week. The Dallas Cowboys set up an impressive website to display plans for the new Texas Stadium. Quite an impressive looking stadium to house the Cowboys. The stadium tries to keep some of the key aspects of the current Texas Stadium, namely the hole in the roof and the Ring of Honor, but adds many seats and creates an architectural marvel. A retractable roof will cover the hole in the roof when needed, and capacity will be about 80,000, with the ability to increase to 100,000 with temporary seating. One of the more interesting aspects of the proposed stadium is a 60 yard videoboard that will hang over the playing field, providing video between the 20 yard lines. Fans in end zone seats will also have videoboards facing them.

The Minnesota Twins also unveiled preliminary plans for their downtown baseball stadium. The stadium is slated to be a cozy venue, seating about 40,000. Only about 15% of the design is completed, so these plans are subject to change.