Fans in Stands: Cowboys Nation likely would’ve dominated SoFi debut
The Dallas Cowboys and the entire NFL are set to embark on an unprecedented season. The Covid-19 pandemic has ran all over the United States in 2020 but slowly, surely sports started to make a comeback.
With each NFL team being allowed to follow their state guidelines and make their own ruling on fans in the stands, the Cowboys are set to open up against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday Night Football and christen the new SoFi Stadium in front of no one.
The Rams have decided that for at least the beginning part of their season, no fans will be allowed into the building.
A study done by VividSeats.com shows the Cowboys may have benefited for this particular road game. The site does a “Fan Forecast” where it collects data and shows the probability of which team’s fans would be in attendance. For Week 1, the Cowboys would have likely represented 50% of the crowd in the opening of their new stadium.
Cowboys fans are everywhere and or travel very well.
According to the data the next closest team to have a good chunk of their fans in an away stadium was the Pittsburgh Steelers which would have represented by 31% of their own fans waving their terrible towels inside of MetLife Stadium. The Giants and Jets in New Jersey have also opted not to have fans in 2020.
Nobody truly knows the plan for the Cowboys home opener against the Falcons in Week 2. The specific number has not been set by the team’s owner Jerry Jones but with the space provided at AT&T Stadium and Texas being quite lenient, expect Jones to use every inch of available space inside “Jerry World”.
The NBA and NHL Playoffs created “bubbles” in which no player on any team were permitted to have any contact with the outside world while their teams were still in the tournaments. Major League Baseball has had a few teams experience outbreaks causing the postponement of games and forced teams and players into quarantine. The Kansas City Chiefs opened the 2020 NFL season with a spaced out socially distanced crowd of over 15,000 people.
As the world awaits the data from postgame testing, the NFL has been quite strict in their training camps and some teams, like the Dallas Cowboys created their own bubble of sorts to insure the safety of their players.
The Cowboys have division road games against the Giants, Eagles and Redskins and both Philadelphia and New York have already announced that they are to have no fans in the stands. The remaining road games on the schedule for 2020 include trips to Seattle, Minnesota, Baltimore and Cincinnati. While America’s Team tends to travel well it will be interesting to see if the Cowboys would have turned some of their away games into home field advantage in 2020.
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