ARLINGTON, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys had deliberate to open the AT&T Stadium roof for Monday night time’s sport in opposition to the Houston Texans, however the plan was scrapped as a result of a chunk of metallic fell to the sector because the roof was opening greater than two hours earlier than kickoff.
“We will affirm a chunk of metallic got here unfastened and fell to the sector [with some additional small debris] whereas the roof was within the technique of opening,” the Cowboys mentioned in an announcement. “There have been no accidents. It’s being reviewed additional, and a choice relating to the power to re-open the roof safely will probably be made when doable.”
The Cowboys attributed excessive winds through the day Monday to contributing to the piece of metallic falling and that the roof would stay closed for Monday night time’s sport.
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The roof has not been open for a Cowboys sport prior to now two years. In final week’s dwelling sport in opposition to the Philadelphia Eagles, the group supposed to have the doorways open for the sport, however they’d not open utterly.
AT&T Stadium opened in 2009. The Cowboys are 2-5 all time with the roof open and doorways closed.
The final time the Cowboys opened the roof was Oct. 30, 2022, in opposition to the Chicago Bears, a 49-29 win.
The roof and doorways had been open that day.
Getting into Monday, the Cowboys have misplaced their first 4 dwelling video games this season and 5 in a row general when together with final season’s wild-card loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers. The Cowboys haven’t misplaced 5 straight dwelling video games since 2015 and haven’t misplaced the primary 5 dwelling video games of a season since 1989 once they completed 1-15 in Jerry Jones’ first yr as proprietor and common supervisor.
