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Stadium, formerly known as Cowboys Stadium, is a city-owned 101,000-seat
capacity stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington, Texas, United States. It
serves as the home of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL).
It replaced the partially covered Texas Stadium, which opened in 1971 and
served as the Cowboys' home through the 2008 season. It was completed on May
27, 2009. The facility can also be used for a variety of other activities
outside of its main purpose (professional football) such as concerts,
basketball games, college football and high school football contests, soccer
matches, as well as motocross and Spartan races.
The stadium is
sometimes referred to as "Jerry World" after Dallas Cowboys owner
Jerry Jones, who originally envisioned it as a large entertainment mecca. The
stadium seats 80,000, making it the fifth largest stadium in the NFL by seating
capacity. The maximum capacity of the stadium with standing room is 105,000.
The record attendance for an NFL game was set in 2009, with a crowd of
105,121.The Party Pass (open areas) sections are behind seats in each end zone
and on a series of six elevated platforms connected by stairways. It also has
the world's twenty fourth-largest high definition video screen, which hangs
from 20-yard line to 20-yard line.
