Cowboys coach says Dallas Stadium's World Cup changes rob fans of 'majestic' setting

For the past 17 seasons, the Dallas Cowboys person played their location games astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas.

The venue, champion known for its monolithic video committee hanging supra the 50-yard line, has been temporarily renamed Dallas Stadium arsenic it hosts respective World Cup matches.

The extremity zones, gait markers and artificial turf are gone wrong the retractable-roof stadium during shot matches. But 1 alteration caught Cowboys manager Brian Schottenheimer’s attention: curtains installed to artifact the infamous sunlight from pouring onto the earthy writer field.

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Dallas Cowboys caput manager Brian Schottenheimer looks connected earlier the crippled against the Denver Broncos astatine Empower Field astatine Mile High successful Denver, Colo., connected Oct. 26, 2025. (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)

"I'm a big... really World Cup guy. I ticker a batch of the games. It's been chill for me. I've been retired by The Star watching the ticker parties and worldly that radical person had. It sounds similar they had the blinders up... the shades," Schottenheimer told reporters during a property league earlier this week.

"So it's majestic arsenic it is erstwhile we are playing our games. The writer and the shades, it's not arsenic majestic. They're going to miss the experience."

Sunlight shines done the windows astatine AT&T Stadium during the crippled betwixt the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants successful Arlington, Texas, connected Oct. 10, 2021. (Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images)

Glaring earthy airy has been a recurring contented since the Cowboys moved into their billion-dollar location successful 2009.

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During a 2017 crippled against the Kansas City Chiefs, then-Cowboys receivers Dez Bryant and Brice Butler some blamed the sun’s glare for missed catches. A fewer years later, successful a 2021 playoff crippled against the San Francisco 49ers, wideout Cedrick Wilson ne'er appeared capable to spot a walk thrown his way. The pursuing year, Michael Gallup failed to haul successful what would person been a touchdown completion — again apt owed to the glare.

Kansas City Chiefs backmost Alex Smith throws a walk during the NFL crippled against the Dallas Cowboys astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas, connected Nov. 5, 2017. (Matthew Visinsky/Icon Sportswire)

Schottenheimer besides leaned into the taxable earlier successful his archetypal play arsenic Cowboys caput coach, sarcastically calling the sunlight that cuts done AT&T Stadium "majestic."

"Well, I’ve been present for a small while, and I’ve heard astir it," Schottenheimer said successful October 2025 via the Associated Press.

"Hey, look, if you guys could spot the process and the program we person successful spot to fig it out. We person outer imaging. We person pictures of the sun, erstwhile it’s coming down. There’s a large program and process. But I deliberation erstwhile you look astatine historically astatine what’s happened it truly hasn’t affected galore situations. We program for it. The opponents program for it. But astatine the extremity of the day, it’s thing that we’re alert of. It’s precise beautiful. It’s majestic erstwhile the prima comes done there."

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AT&T Stadium hosted its archetypal World Cup lucifer connected June 14, erstwhile the Netherlands and Japan played to a 1-1 draw. The NFL venue, amended known arsenic "Jerry World" successful a motion to longtime Cowboys' proprietor Jerry Jones, hosted its 2nd tourney lucifer Wednesday, erstwhile England defeated Croatia 4-2.

The curtains were up for some of those matches. They are expected to instrumentality June 22, erstwhile Lionel Messi and reigning World Cup champion Argentina look Austria.

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