Clarence Hill: Jerry Jones, AT&T Stadium has curtains for Taylor Swift, but not Cowboys?

By all accounts, the Taylor Swift concert over the weekend at AT&T Stadium was a supernova of an event.

Three straight days of sell outs.

The Swifties were everywhere and of all ages and genders.

Just ask the Star-Telegram’s google-eyed Mac Engel, who scored floor seats to opening night.

Taylor Swift was the headliner of a magnificent entertainment weekend in Dallas-Fort Worth that included the NCAA Women’s Final Four and championship game at the American Airline’s Center in Dallas, the Texas Rangers sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies in the season-opening series at Globe Life Field in Arlington and the New Edition concert at sold-out Dickies Arena in Fort Worth Sunday.

Just from a sporting perspective, Smith’s best trick was showing that curtain’s are ready and available at AT&T Stadium.

It was a simple tweet from former Star-Telegram employee Lena Blietz but it spokes volumes.

“So jerry won’t put up curtains for the cowboys but he will for taylor swift because priorities,” Blietz wrote.

The true answer is because he doesn’t want to. He remains stubborn on the issue that has been a question and concern since AT&T Stadium opened in 2009.

Curtains are put up for concerts to block out the sun to ensure the quality of the event and the performance.

The same can be done for Cowboys games, where the sun has been a factor in the afternoon for fans and players.

Cowboys receivers have complained that the sun impacts their ability to catch passes for a number of years.

When former receivers Dez Bryant and Brice Butler complained about the sun and a lack of curtains in 2017, Jones showed little concern.

“I don’t see curtains at all,” Jones said. “We’re good at knowing where that sun is during these games. So, I don’t see that in the future.

“The sun has not been a factor at all in any win or loss we’ve had in that stadium.”

Well, it played a role in the team’s 23-17 wildcard playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers last season when most remember quarterback Dak Prescott ran out of time in the final seconds yet forget Cedrick Wilson missed a pass due to the sun.

It would have put them in field goal range right before halftime, possibly putting them within a field goal in the final seconds, rather than needing a touchdown.

And it was a problem for Michael Gallup against Eagles on Christmas Eve this past season, causing him to miss a potential touchdown pass.

Each time, Jones said it was something the players were going to have to deal with and he has no plans to put curtains up for football games.

“I wish to hell all I had to worry about was a ball hitting a (jumbotron) or a little sun getting in there,” a fiery Jones said the days after the 49ers playoff game. “Conditions and elements have been a part of football since it was spelled the first time. No, I’m not. That’s about 10,000 on my list of things to worry about.

“And, no, we’re not going to do anything with it. It goes both ways. Both teams had a chance to get in the sun, both teams had a chance to get out of the sun. Relative to the elements I see other people play in, it’s nothing.”

Following Eagles game, Jones blamed the Cowboys coaches, intimating they should have called the play for the other side of the field.

“The sun was there for both teams, and so both teams have to look for it,” Jones said. “We’ve got a lot of (coaches), and they’ve got assistants. You don’t have a lack of people out there who can tell where the sun is.”

It was certainly something Taylor Swift didn’t have concern herself with.

Right, Mac Engel?