Despite CeeDee Lamb’s absurd mistake in the game against the Eagles, Cowboys boss Jerry Jones wants the sun to continue to shine in the AT&T Stadium – with a bizarre explanation.

It was one of the strangest scenes of the NFL’s final game day.

At home in AT&T Stadium, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb was unable to catch a short touchdown pass because he was blinded by the low sun.

It was certainly not the deciding play, as the Cowboys lost to the Philadelphia Eagles by 6:34. And yet it remains a nuisance – not only for wide receiver Lamb – that the Cowboys cannot get a grip on this kind of external interference in their stadium.

The reason for this lies in the person of the most important man for the Cowboys: owner Jerry Jones stubbornly refuses to shade the stadium with curtains if necessary. This would be easily possible and is also practiced at other events, such as concerts.

Only Jones refuses to do this at Cowboys’ games. His reasoning for this, however, is rather curious.

“It shouldn’t look like it’s not outdoors. It should look like it’s outdoors,” the 82-year-old is quoted as saying on CBS. ‘The stadium was built to let sunlight in.’

Jones even considers this architecture an advantage for his team. “This really falls under the category of home field advantage,” he said, repeating his opinion like a prayer wheel.

“It should be a home-field advantage, so I don’t want to change it for one reason because it’s an advantage for us. That’s our advantage,” he emphasized. ‘It should be our advantage. We get to play there more often and have an advantage from it. It was an advantage for us to know where the sun was. I don’t want to change that.’

There won’t be any such problems in Tennessee

The Tennessee Titans show how it can be done differently. Their new arena – the two-billion-dollar New Nissan Stadium – will be ready for the 2027 season.

Sunlight could also penetrate the interior of the stadium there. But that won’t prevent the players from catching balls.

That’s because the Titans worked with stadium designers and engineers to conduct a solar analysis to determine where the sun will be during games.

If there is a risk that it will affect the players with its rays, blinds will be installed on the accordion-like glass doors to prevent the sun from shining onto the field.