Cowboys practice facility collapses!!!

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edited May 2009 in The Clubhouse
JESUS CHRIST!!!

Dallas Cowboys vs. a Thunder Storm

Video is definitely worth watching.

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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2009
    It just looks like a huge tent.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited May 2009
    Thats a lot of metal poles coming down....looks like the special teams coach got the worst of it with some broken vertebrae...luckily he wasnt paralyzed and its repairable. They were all very lucky....
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited May 2009
    wingnut4772 wrote: »
    It just looks like a huge tent.

    It is.
    ...the sound of rain pelting the tent-like structure can drown out conversation. No matter the noise, safety rarely was an issue—until Saturday.

    Wind that was just shy of tornado strength, and perhaps stronger, ripped through the roof during a rookie minicamp practice, essentially popping the so-called bubble. Between the falling debris and the furor to get out, special teams coach Joe DeCamillis broke his back and 11 more people were hospitalized....

    ...Just before the facility was flattened, wind was clocked at 64 mph, a single mph shy of the threshold for a weak tornado. However, National Weather Service meteorologist Gary Woodall said a “microburst” may have pushed the wind beyond 70 mph at the top of the structure. A microburst also was to blame for a 1985 Delta Airlines crash at nearby DFW airport that killed 137 people....

    A similar event happened to the Eagles one year in a hurricane but only a couple of assistant coaches and some maintenance people were in the structure when it came down and no one was injured.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited May 2009
    holy crap. Seeing the lights moving like that was sign number 1 they should've stopped practice. Hind sight is always 20/20 though. Glad no one was killed though.
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  • zarrdoss
    zarrdoss Posts: 2,562
    edited May 2009
    Is their new stadium finnished in Arlington?
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited May 2009
    I believe Arlington is done......and they were morons for staying in that thing when every one of those lights was swinging the way they were.......

    I don't know what form of logic would compel someone to think that when a crazy storm is brewing, their safety isn't questioned when they're in a vinyl tent........
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,186
    edited May 2009
    Terrible. I saw it on the news last night. Glad to see no one was killed.

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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited May 2009
    Well, this is a drag.

    From CNN:
    A Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant suffered a broken back and has been permanently paralyzed after the collapse of the team's practice canopy during a heavy thunderstorm, the Cowboys announced Sunday.

    Rich Behm, 33, was one of three Cowboys staffers seriously hurt when the storm struck their practice facility Saturday afternoon.

    Behm's spinal cord was severed by a fractured vertebrae, paralyzing him from the waist down, the team said in a written statement.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/03/cowboys.collapse.paralyzed/index.html
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2009
    Oh wow. Thats' so sad.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited May 2009
    There's some damning evidence on that video that the coaches/trainers should've made the call to get the hell out of that thing.

    If I was a player, I would've said "forget this, I'll see you guys back at the locker room"
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited May 2009
    The thing is that storms like that are not rare at all this time of year in Texas. I'm sure that ceiling was swaying at previous time because NO ONE seemed concerned at all, not even the camera man. Not until stuff started falling did anyone get concerned. But the dome was built for exactly what they were doing, practicing in the rain without getting wet.
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited May 2009
    Rain is one thing.......the crazy winds that accompany those at times are a totally different story........again......it's a vinyl tent......Press Your Luck.......NO WHAMMIES!!!!
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,806
    edited May 2009
    Apparently, OSHA is looking in to why now.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/04/cowboys.dome.collapse/index.html
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