Dallas Cowboys fans had reason to look twice at AT&T Stadium on Sunday, but the answer turned out to be the same old one: no, Jerry Jones did not finally put up tint or curtains for a football game.
Jeff Kolb sparked the latest round of speculation from inside Jerry World before the Commanders’ 4:25 p.m. ET kickoff, posting, “Is that tint on the windows here at Jerry World?!” His video showed him moving through the concourse and looking up at the end-zone glass, the same panels that have become part of the sun problem in the building.
The darker look was not a new fix. Jon Machota reported that the Cowboys would not use tint or curtains for the home opener, and Jones said on 105.3 The Fan that he did not expect the tint to return for the NFL season.
“I really don’t know about that at all,” Jones said. “I don’t know of any plans to surprise our fans.”
That decision leaves the stadium’s familiar issue in place. Because the field runs east and west, the late sun pours through the west glass in the second quarter during those afternoon kickoffs. It’s the kind of glare that has already burned the Cowboys once.
CeeDee Lamb has been talking about it for two years, and he thought this might finally be the season the setup changed. On Caleb Downs’ podcast last week, Lamb said, “I think they’re gonna put tint on the glass now,” he said last week on Caleb Downs’ podcast. “I’m telling you, that 3:25 kickoff, when it gets around that second quarter, yeah, you’ll see.”
Then came the line that still hangs over the building: “That far end zone, it cost me a touchdown.”
That play came on November 10, 2024, against Philadelphia, when Cooper Rush threw to an open Lamb from the 3-yard line and Lamb lost the ball in the sun. Afterward, he was blunt: “I couldn’t see the ball.
Couldn’t see the ball, at all. The sun,” he said afterward.
Asked about curtains, he answered, “1,000 percent.”
Jones, for his part, acknowledged the issue that same night in his own way. “We do know where the damn sun’s going to be at our own stadium,” he said.
AT&T Stadium remains the $1.3 billion showpiece that can hold more than 100,000 people when the decks fill. But for all the glass and all the spectacle, the late-afternoon kickoff still brings the same problem back into view.
Kolb asked if the windows had finally changed. The official answer was no.
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