They found seats for all but 400 people. Those were getting 3X their ticket price refunded and they were still getting "other" standing room accommodations in the stadium, mainly standing room only corners. Still, not a great PR situation!!!
The NFL took over COMPLETE control of the stadium. Whatever Jerry wanted or hoped of is immaterial. It wasn't his stadium the past two weeks.
I smell a lawsuit on the horizon.
That may be, but it wasn't the NFL trying to stuff seats into every nook and cranny. That's one the venue operator - and that's Jerry.
My guess is that they will most likely reach a settlement to keep if from ever getting to a court...the NFL probably won't allow it to become too big of a PR nightmare for them (anymore than it already is).
That may be, but it wasn't the NFL trying to stuff seats into every nook and cranny. That's one the venue operator - and that's Jerry.
That may be, but it wasn't the NFL trying to stuff seats into every nook and cranny. That's one the venue operator - and that's Jerry.
Jerry did not have control over that. The NFL did. The NFL was the venue operator or whatever name you want to give it.
It was Jerry (and the host committee) who went to the NFL to sell them on the idea of counting the people watching on TV in the plazas, among other things. Because he wanted the attendance record for his stadium. The NFL couldn't care less about the record. If you accept the idea that the NFL truly controls 'everything' then you must accept the fact that the host committee (and Jerry) was really just for show.
Actually they had approval but at the last minute the fire marshal said no. Wasn't a case of the stadium not being ready.
You're trying to make it sound like Jerry flipped the keys to Roger Goddell on the 30th (NFL only has control for one week prior, not 2, and one week after) and said 'just make sure you lock up when you're done'. NFL may have had 'control' in the last week, but everything that happened - good and bad - is the result of weeks, months and years of planning and effort, including construction, which began before the NFL moved in,
NFL has had control of the stadium since January 8th just FYI.
That might be the case, but as RSF pointed out, the plans for the extra seating areas have been in the works for months, and probably even a year or more. These kinds of decisions are not made in the vacuum of the NFL headquarters 1,500 miles away. The NFL is not a dictatorship -- they realize that they have a valuable partner in Jerry Jones, and they would not take the chance of coming into his house (a house he raised more than a billion dollars to build) and making he and his staff mad. They would have nothing to gain by doing that.
At the end of the day, the NFL had to approve everything, or we can just continue to over look the facts and blame Jerry.
Quite admirable for Goodell to say this.NFL admits it was its fault.
Seating Problem
Grubman said issues arose with the “final installation of railings, of tightening risers, steps, things of that nature—and that’s what did not get completed at the end.”
The league, Grubman said, “felt in the middle of the week that it was going to be a problem. We did not feel until the game day that we had an issue where … there was a distinct possibility that we wouldn’t be able to accommodate fans.”
He said final work on the temporary sections was done Sunday afternoon.
In the coming weeks, the NFL will review what happened to figure out what went wrong.
Asked whether Cowboys owner Jerry Jones or local organizers were at fault for the seating issues, Goodell said: “No. We put on this event. This is the responsibility of the NFL.”