Stadium | Super Bowl XLV Host Committee North Texas

A World Class Venue

The Super Bowl is a world-class event that demands a world-class venue. The Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium, scheduled to open in Arlington in 2009, is just such a venue – a state-of-the-art, Super Bowl-ready facility. While there are many reasons to love this new stadium, these six will be particularly important come Super Bowl Sunday:

1. EASY ACCESS

stadium One of the great assets Arlington has is accessibility to the entire Metroplex. There will be 14 approaches from major highways into the new stadium in Arlington, compared to three at Texas Stadium.

From a regional standpoint, the new stadium will be one of the most accessible venues ever planned. The Arlington Entertainment District is the beneficiary of $1 billion in improvements to the area highways that will directly benefit the new stadium. This infrastructure investment will provide new and improved access to the venue from three exits off of I-30 and upgrade the interchange at Hwy 360 and Division. stadium stadium

2. Seating

The stadium will seat more than 90,000, serving as the largest venue to host a Super Bowl since the Rose Bowl in 1993.

3. Dedicated Entertainment Areas

stadium The stadium features two open end zones with glass retractable doors adjacent to the end zone entries. Events in the plazas outside these doors creates the potential to expand capacity.

4. Luxury Suites

The stadium has over 300 luxury suites – the most of any stadium in the NFL.

5. Retractable Roof

The stadium will have a retractable roof, guaranteeing weather won’t be an issue on game day - a vital asset to make sure that the head-to-head competition decides the outcome of the game, instead of the weather.

6. Video Boards

There will be four video boards in the stadium. The most unique of these is the four-board cluster that will be suspended 90 feet directly over the center of the playing surface. The board will run from the 20-yard line to the 20- yard line (measuring 160 feet in length and 70 feet in height), making it the largest video board installation in the world. The video center will allow fans on all levels to view the game in crisp, clear images during the game. This will create a premium on the value of the upper-level seats and make the game more exciting for all fans.

Design Statistics

How big is the Cowboys’ new home?
These facts add a little perspective:

TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE: 3 million square feet. The entire Statue of Liberty and its base could fit into the stadium with the roof closed. The stadium is also the world’s largest column-free room. The American Airlines Center in Dallas could fit entirely into the new stadium at field level.

INTERIOR CUBIC VOLUME: 104 million cubic feet. (By comparison, Reliant Stadium in Houston measures 90 million cubic feet.) The Dallas Cowboys stadium will be the largest enclosed stadium (in cubic feet) in the NFL.

SUITES: There will be 300 suites in eight different locations on five separate levels of the stadium. Field-level suites will be available on the sidelines as well as in the end zone for up-close and personal viewing of the games. The Hall of Fame-level suites will be 20 rows from the field, making them the closest in the NFL.

DOMED ROOF: At 660,800 square feet, the stadium will be the largest domed structure in the world.

RETRACTABLE ROOF: The open roof design that was a unique feature of Texas Stadium will be carried over into the design of the new stadium, with the improvement of a new retractable feature, revealing an opening that measures 256 feet wide and 410 feet long. Two bi-parting mechanized roof panels – each measuring 63,000 square feet – will be driven by a rackand- pinion drive system consisting of 64 7.5 HP electric motors, making it the first of its kind in the world. The open/close time is 12 minutes.

ARCHES: The roof is supported by two 35-foot deep and 15-foot wide boxed arch trusses. Each truss spans 1,290 feet – nearly a quarter mile – making the roof the longest clear-span structure in the world. The arches are more than twice the length of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

GLASS RETRACTABLE DOOR: Each end zone features a five-leaf clear glass retractable door measuring 120 feet high and 180 feet wide, making it the tallest moveable glass wall in the world.