Cowboys practice field roof collapses

[Football_Bat]

A dome covering the Dallas Cowboys' indoor practice field at Valley Ranch has collapsed. Details to come.

 

[Football_Bat]

All players and coaches are accounted for. They were holding a rookie mini-camp today when a strong thunderstorm hit Valley Ranch with straight-line winds. There's at least one injury according to an eyewitness.

Tim MacMahon update:

http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/05/cowboys-indoor-facility-collapses-during.html

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Jerrah! was on NBC's Derby coverage. He said some meeting rooms and offices were damaged.

 

[Bubbler]

Hopefully the coke stash didn't blow away.

 

[txsportsscribe]

Hopefully the coke stash didn't blow away.

::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

 

[Smash Williams]

****. I've spent a lot of time under that blow-up dome in storms. I wonder why this thunderstorm did it it. It was a nasty cell, but it wasn't any worse than other Texas spring storms that have come through the Metroplex.

 

[JBHawkEye]

AP saying four injured. All players and coaches are accounted for, and the injured are staff members.

 

[Angola!]

Costas said it was a tornado. It ****ing ripped that thing apart.

 

[farmerjerome]

Just saw the pictahs while watching the Derby coverage. Thank god no one was killed.

 

[Smash Williams]

They're saying on NBC that a tornado is what did the damage.

Hah, Angola beat me.

I've been in that facility multiple times, and I don't think it had any sort of real structural support other than a very basic lighting structure. It's similar to a lot of those indoor soccer facilities you see once in a while. I always wondered how it stood up to hail, but it's been through some nasty hailstorms before.

The people who lived in Valley Ranch always hated the thing because it was freaking huge. At least they'll be happy it's gone.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I think this is proof there is a God and He hates the ****ing Cowboys too.

(Too soon for jokes?)

 

[Armchair_QB]

Fox Dallas is saying it was straight-line winds and not a tornado that knocked it down.

One of the camera guys who was injured is Larry Rodriguez. If that name sounds familiar he's the cameraman Kenny Rogers attacked a few years ago.

They're interviewing him right now. They had to put some stitches in his hand but he says he's ok. They also have some raw footage he shot - I would assume after he cut his hand - from what was "inside" the bubble after it collapsed. Pretty incredible stuff.

 

[EagleMorph]

Yeah...like Jerral Wayne Jones won't rebuild something bigger and bolder in its place with the insurance money...

 

[writing irish]

Hopefully the coke stash didn't blow away.

That's why they smoke rock. Less problematic in the Texas wind.

 

[writing irish]

I think this is proof there is a God and He hates the ****ing Cowboys too.

(Too soon for jokes?)

No, I'm a Cowboys fan and I hate the ****ing Cowboys.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Fox Dallas just ran footage of the roof coming down that was shot from inside the building as it happened. All I can say is Holy ****ing ****.

Edit: One of the Cowboys' video guys was in the camera "cherry picker" shooting practice when the roof came off and he basically rode the picker all the way down to the ground then jumped off.

 

[Gutter]

I think this is proof there is a God and He hates the ****ing Cowboys too.

(Too soon for jokes?)

God was just pissed that he couldn't watch practice because there was no hole in the roof.

 

[Bubbler]

I think this is proof there is a God and He hates the ****ing Cowboys too.

(Too soon for jokes?)

God was just pissed that he couldn't watch practice because there was no hole in the roof.

Well played.

 

[slappy4428]

I think this is proof there is a God and He hates the ****ing Cowboys too.

(Too soon for jokes?)

Now that he can't watch football through the hole in the roof any more, he's pissed...

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I think this is proof there is a God and He hates the ****ing Cowboys too.

(Too soon for jokes?)

Now that he can't watch football through the hole in the roof any more, he's pissed...

Holy D_B!