NHL President Content and Events Steve Mayer Hinted Dallas Cowboys Would Host Stadium Series Game
The NHL announced on ESPN, ahead of Monday Night Football, that the 2027 Stadium Series can be played in Dallas, Texas, at AT&T Stadium on February 20, 2027.
As of now, the Dallas Stars might be the host team, as their opponent is unknown at the moment. Nevertheless, if you might have been being attentive, little hints were dropped ahead of the season that “Jerry’s World” can be hosting an outside game.
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In the course of the NHL/NHLPA North American Player Tour, Steve Mayer, NHL President, Content and Events, joined Sirius XM NHL Network Radio with Dave Pagnotta, Dennis Bernstein, and Scott Laughlin. They were discussing it outdoor games and whether “Jerry’s World” would ever host one.
NHLRumors.com Transcriptions
Scott Laughlin: “Well, look, the Cotton Bowl has been done before, and I do know, Dave is a fellow Cowboys fan like I’m. You mentioned Dallas. Ever been any talk Steve with Jerry Jones about doing anything at the massive stadium? Jerry’s World, as they call it, since the Stars fans down there, the state of Texas had bought a lot into hockey, and the Dallas Stars specifically over time. How exciting would that be, eventually, to do something like that with 8090, there, we are saying 100,000 fans there.”
Steve Mayer: “That might be really cool. Yeah, so we’ve had conversations. It’s interesting. After we went to the Cotton Bowl, we originally had conversations with all of the assorted stadiums within the Dallas area. At the moment, Jerry’s World, as you referred to he they’d a unique business model that it just didn’t jive with our business model.
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And a part of this can be a business and so we then began talking, as a part of the exercise to Cotton Bowl to the baseball stadium. And remember at the moment, my recollection was it was the old baseball stadium they’ve since. So it didn’t work out. And once we talked to Cotton Bowl, the more we talked, after which I ended up going to the Oklahoma-Texas College football game, and I experienced it for myself. I used to be like, that is incredible.
But since then we’ve talked and that is how I spend my summer. We go to stadiums and baseball, football, college football, and we just look them over, talk over with the personnel which can be involved, and choose what’s the longer term of the outdoor games.
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And we’ve had conversations. I’m not going to sit down here and inform you in another way with not necessarily Jerry Jones, but the oldsters that run that stadium. And if we’re to return to Dallas, I’d say that will be a really strong possibility, that that will be where we’d play well.”
So Mr. Mayer dropped somewhat nugget back in September. Without saying it then, he was the NHL was going to carry an outside game in Dallas at Jerry’s World. That hint has turn out to be a reality.
The NHL is returning to Dallas for an outside game and AT&T Stadium, “The House that Jerry Jones Built,” will host the 2027 Stadium Series.
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