Cowboys narrowly avoid tragedy as AT&T Stadium roof collapses onto field before Texans matchup

The Dallas Cowboys' stadium collapsed arsenic dramatically arsenic the team's play connected Monday Night Football. 

Hours earlier the Cowboys kicked disconnected against the Houston Texans Monday night, debris from AT&T Stadium's extortion fell onto the tract successful scary scenes. 

The Cowboys opened the retractable extortion for the archetypal clip since 2021 but were swiftly forced to execute a U-turn connected the program erstwhile a 'large portion of metal' fell arsenic it was being opened.

'Bits of debris started falling from the sky. They were opening the extortion present and you could spot large chunks of what looked similar dust, paper, integrative and past each of a abrupt a large portion of metallic floated down and fell onto the field,' Lisa Salters reported connected ESPN's Monday Night Football. 

Fortunately, the franchise avoided immoderate injuries during the incidental with the squad confirming the concern successful a statement. 

'We tin corroborate a portion of metallic came escaped and fell to the tract (with immoderate further tiny debris) portion the extortion was successful the process of opening. There were nary injuries. It is being reviewed further, and a determination regarding the quality to re-open the extortion safely volition beryllium made erstwhile possible,' the Cowboys said successful a statement. 

The franchise aboriginal took the determination to adjacent the extortion amid information concerns but sheets of metallic were reportedly inactive hanging from the rafters, according to Noah Bullard.  

The incidental reportedly occurred astir 3 hours earlier the all-Texas showdown is slated to commencement astatine 8:15pm ET. 

It isn't the archetypal clip that the infrastructure of AT&T Stadium, which hosted the combat betwixt Jake Paul and Mike Tyson connected Friday, has travel into question this season. 

The location of the Cowboys has been infamous for 'Curtain-gate', a none-football-related contented wherever the prima beams done a model successful the stadium and affects players' imaginativeness connected 1 extremity zone. 

And the glaring contented came to airy erstwhile again during the Cowboys' 6-34 nonaccomplishment to the Philadelphia Eagles connected November 10. 

Dallas backmost Cooper Rush saw receiver CeeDee Lamb successful the extremity portion and threw what would person been a touchdown pass. However, owed to the glare, Lamb failed to spot his teammate oregon the shot and ran past the pigskin arsenic it deed the turf. 

After the game, Lamb told reporters helium was 'one 1000 percent' successful favour of raising the curtains astatine AT&T to debar the issue.

However, squad proprietor Jerry Jones brushed disconnected notions of adding to his $1.2billion investment.

'Well, let's conscionable teardrop the damn stadium down and physique different one? You kidding me?' Jones quipped, claiming curtain-gate was advantageous for Dallas.

'Every squad that comes successful present has the aforesaid issues, they cognize wherever the sun's going to be,' Jones added. 'We bash cognize wherever the damn sun's going to beryllium astatine our ain stadium.'