A Super Mess

With all of the glitz and glam of Super Bowl XLV, this storyline didn't truly surface until today, and I think it deserves my Oops Award for the week. Apparently the Cowboys Stadium officials and the NFL "forgot" to get the fire marshal to inspect the tons of temporary seats before the game, casuing about 1,200 paying fans to not have seats. Officials found different seats for about 850 of the fans but they couldn't for the other 400, which didn't settle very well. The NFL commissioner said that this was a "failure" on their part and it was quite embarassing for stadium crew as you could imagine.

Ok, let me just say that I would be beyond upset if this happened. It's not so much the money, it's the whole experience itself. As a consolation, a security guard in the section provided an "explanantion" for this debacle. He said that the winter storms in Dallas "set back work on the temporary seats." Really? Is that all you got? That is no excuse whatsoever! Like my Sport Management professor said today (who I first heard this story from) the Cowboys Stadium people (including Jerry Jones) knew this event was coming to their stadium.

There's no excuse for not having everything up to standard before the game. Worst part is they didn't even inform the ticket holders of this problem, which would have saved a lot of heartache (maybe). It's ashame how much laziness and carelessness was displayed in this situation by both the Cowboy's Stadium officials and the NFL.

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