Dude Perfect’s New Upper Deck Shot at Cowboys Stadium

By: Allen Moll
From: http://thehoopdoctors.com/

The man, the myth, the legend known as the self proclaimed “King of the Trick Shot” Dude Perfect has been on our radar at TheHoopDoctors.com for some time now as he continually keeps amazing us with his innate trick shot abilities with a basketball.

Even back when we first showed you his ‘09 Summer Camp Edition two Summers ago, we knew this guy had potential as a legendary trick shot artist.

Over the past few years Dude has been adding to his legacy by nailing many improbable long distance shots like these tosses earlier this year when he sinks shots from a moving plane, through a giant donut, and off of a high story building.

With so many competitors now on the horizon like David Kalb and that guy sank a hole-in-one with a basketball, all eying the crown as the World’s Greatest Trick Shot Artist, Dude is going back to his roots by attempting to one-up the shot that originally went viral and made him an internet star….nailing a shot from the 3rd deck at Texas A&M’s football field.

Of course, if you want to go one better than that, one must go to the NFL’s largest outdoor venue: Cowboys Stadium.

Check out Dude Perfect nailing the new World’s Longest Basketball Shot at Cowboys Stadium:

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Cowboys Stadium 3D scoreboard experiment doesn't go so well, turned off in less than seven minutes

By Nilay Patel
From: http://www.engadget.com

You know 3D has a long way to go when even Jerry Jones can't manage to sell it for longer than seven minutes: the vaunted real-time 3D scoreboard display experiment at last night's Cowboys game was turned off to loud cheers after just six minutes and fifty seconds of being active. The problem, as usual, was glasses: most of the 80,000 people in attendance didn't bother to put on the headgear required to see the 3D effect, and instead saw a blurry anaglyph image -- which they then booed. What's more, some who wore the glasses complained that the 3D effect caused nausea, although probably not as badly as the Cowboys' 20-17 loss to the Chargers. HDlogix actually has the tech to do glasses-free 3D, but it simply doesn't work when scaled up for the world's largest HD monitor -- a problem they'll have plenty of time to solve when the Cowboys fail to make the playoffs with another couple December losses.

Who Needs Turf at Cowboys Stadium When You've Got A PlayStation?

By Patrick Michels in Sports

Sunday, Aug. 9 2009 @ 7:41PM

Patrick Michels

Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for.

​Check out our slide show for more shots from the tournament and around the stadium.

It was a moment you knew was coming ever since the Cowboys unveiled the largest-in-the-world 1080p HDTV screen hanging above midfield in their new stadium.

Saturday afternoon at an open house for Cowboys season ticket holders, Sony held a Madden NFL 2010 tournament -- the game's due in stores a little over a week from now -- played on the 10-story Mitsubishi screen, even as workers finished laying down the numbers marking yardage on the field below.

Patrick Michels

While players watched their game from a smaller screen down below, everyone else had to look up.

​"Most of the folks here are both hardcore gaming fans and Cowboys fans," Sony spokeswoman Crystal Braswell said, and, indeed, many of the games on the big screen were Cowboys-Cowboys match-ups.

Gamers could earn a place in the tourney ahead of time by submitting a photo of themselves doing a touchdown dance involving a PlayStation, and a few more competitors were picked in a drawing at the stadium Saturday. Out of a field of 256 players, the winner took home a PS3 and a copy of the new Madden game.

Two-hundred and fifty six players entered the tournament, which ran for about five hours. At 3 p.m., winners of a side tournament had the chance to take on a real-life Cowboy, the now-retired Raghib "Rocket" Ismail, at another PlayStation setup on the side of the Sony trailer parked on the field.

While the season ticket holders milling around the stands paid spotty attention to the tournament, it did produce at least one notable stat: "It's technically the first football game to be played at Cowboys Stadium," Braswell noted.

Patrick Michels

Wide receiver "Rocket" Ismail was the only Cowboy who played on the day of the stadium's first football game.

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Giant Cowboys Stadium LED wall caught playing Xbox 360 during downtime

by Donald Melanson


The 72 x 160-foot LED wall at the center of the new Cowboys Stadium is certainly impressive enough when it's showing game highlights or concert footage, but no giant screen ever truly earns its credentials until it's been put to some real use: playing video games. Thankfully, Jonas Brothers video director Steve Fatone somehow pulled himself away from concert preparations to do just that earlier this week, and apparently became the first person to ever play Xbox 360 on the display in the process. As you can see above and in the gallery below, the two certainly seem to be made for each other, although it looks like the controller can get a tad touchy if you stray too far while trying to play it.
Update: Our man Steve hooked us up with a video of the rig in action -- head after the break to check it out.
[Thanks, Steve; photos thanks to Troy]

Gallery: Giant Cowboys Stadium LED wall caught playing Xbox 360 during downtime