About AT&T Stadium
AT&T Stadium, formerly Cowboys Stadium, is a retractable roof stadium in Arlington, Texas. It serves as the home of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL) and was completed on May 27, 2009. The facility is colloquially referred to as "Jerry World" after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who envisioned it as a large entertainment mecca.
The stadium seats 80,000, making it the fourth largest stadium in the NFL by seating capacity, but can be reconfigured to hold around 100,000 seats. Its defining feature is the massive high-definition video board, one of the largest in the world, which hangs from 20-yard line to 20-yard line. The retractable glass doors at each end zone are the largest in the world.
AT&T Stadium has hosted Super Bowl XLV, the 2010 NBA All-Star Game, and numerous college football championship games. The stadium's architecture features two colossal arches that span the entire length of the dome, supporting the roof and the video board, making it an engineering marvel visible for miles.
Ownership of the venue rests with the City of Arlington, Texas, which financed 325 million dollars of the construction through a half-cent municipal sales-tax increase approved by voters in November 2004; the Cowboys organisation, controlled since 1989 by Jerry Jones, funded the remaining 1.15 billion dollars from private sources. The lease agreement runs through 2038 and includes a controversial clause requiring Arlington to reimburse the team roughly 2 million dollars annually for game-day traffic control. The land under the venue was previously a mix of low-density residential neighbourhoods that the city acquired via eminent-domain proceedings in 2005, displacing 154 households and demolishing 111 buildings in a legal process later reviewed by the US Supreme Court.