Godzillatron, world’s largest display…in Texas

Posted August 27, 2006 at 10:04 PM by Adam Berger

Section: News, Miscellaneous, Displays

You know what they say in Texas, “Go big or go home!” Well it seems that the Longhorns were not content letting the Miami Dolphins have the largest HD set in the world. Texas’ new scoreboard is built by South Dakota-based Daktronics Inc., coming in at 55 feet tall and 134 feet wide with a cost of $8 million. It is nearly as wide as the field itself and will be, for a short time, the largest high-definition display in the world.

“Oh man, that thing’s big,” said wide receiver Quan Cosby. “At night, we don’t need the lights, it’s so bright.”

“When they first starting building it, I thought it was going to be half the size that it is,” said defensive end Tim Crowder. “When they kept adding more and more, I was like `How big is this thing going to be?.”

“The guys are talking about trying to hook up an Xbox to play games,” Crowder said.

Read [SI.com]