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The afternoon practice ended in horrifying fashion when the Cowboys' indoor facility collapsed.
While a violent thunderstorm pounded rain down on the roof, the lights started shaking back and forth. Then chaos broke out, as the facility collapsed and players, coaches, reporters and team personnel scrambled for safety.
Several people were trapped under the wreckage. Police and emergency personnel have arrived on the scene.
More to come.
UPDATE: According to a Cowboys spokesman, at least four members of the team's support staff are being taken to the hospital. All players and coaches
http://cowboysblog.dallasnews.com/ar...es-during.html
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http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dw....11e43627.html
Video of it happening on this page
wow...looks like it could have been more serious than it seems to be.
You're a little ...like the team or not..how can anyone have so much disrespect for a team that they laugh at people going to the ing hospital. Get a life, prick.
Seriously grow up. You would think a "friend of Bill W" would respect life more.
I am watching this in shock nobody died...
Holy . That's some crazy footage.
Anybody that's driven past that thing has wondered when the weather was going to knock it down.
Holy . It's far worse than the article originally let on. I take back my lols.
Dumbass
your mother.
Actually I take that back because it would've been great if Wade was washed away and never to be found again.
Oh well....
I bet all Cowboy fans were wishing either Wade or Jerry himself were under the rubble.
That was like a metaphor for the cowboys 2009 draft.
I just moved to Valley Ranch about two weeks ago, damn what timing. I live just down the street from the facility, so needless to say I heard an endless conveyor belt of emergency vehicles speeding past. The rain was ing coming in sideways, and even going up because of the 65 mph wind gusts. I actually took a pic of the facility last night, just because. Didn't envision it not being there the next day.
and I took these after the storm.
Unfortunately, one guy, Rich Behm, who is a scouting and video assistant, I'm pretty sure is the one who was impaled and is in critical condition. Joe DeCamillis, the new special teams coach that our draft was revolved around, broke two vertebrae. And there were other lighter injuries. The new kicker, David Buehler was hit in the head by a falling pole, and he had skin torn off his ear, among other things.
Prayers to all those injured, and I hope they make a speedy recovery.
That was a horrible draft.
Jerry should have learned a lesson given by the 3 little pigs. Thats a tent they are practicing in.
Last edited by jack sommerset; 05-03-2009 at 02:35 PM.
All TO's fault probably.
CNN has this picture from right before the collapse apparently
Collapse leaves aide paralyzed
A Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant was permanently paralyzed from the waist down after his spine was severed during the collapse of the team's tent-like practice structure in a severe storm.
The team announced Rich Behm was in stable condition at Parkland Hospital on Sunday after surgery to stabilize a fracture to the thoracic spine.
The 33-year-old Behm was among a dozen people hurt in the accident Saturday, and was one of three Cowboys staffers who remained hospitalized.
Joe DeCamillis, 43, the team's new special teams coach, sustained a fracture of one of his cervical vertebrae without paralysis. He was in stable condition at Parkland and scheduled for surgery Monday.
Assistant athletic trainer Greg Gaither, 35, had surgery Saturday night to repair a fracture to the tibia and fibula in his right leg. He is expected to be released from the Baylor Regional Medical Center later this week.
"To the Behm family we extend our love, comfort, and the full support of every person and resource within the organization," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said in a statement. "Rich is a courageous member of our family and someone for whom we care deeply. We ask for all friends and fans of the Dallas Cowboys to join us in embracing him and his family with their thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time."
Behm has a brother who works in the Cowboys television department.
Jones, who was attending the Kentucky Derby on Saturday when the accident occurred, didn't stop to talk to media outside the team's Valley Ranch headquarters Sunday morning when he arrived or left.
Jones had a somber look on his face and his hands tucked in his pockets when he surveyed the mangled mess.
About 70 people, including 27 players attending a rookie minicamp, were in the structure when the storm hit. Wind in the area around that time was clocked at 64 mph, a single mph shy of the threshold for a weak tornado.
National Weather Service officials said a "microburst" may have pushed the wind beyond 70 mph at the top of the structure that was built in 2003.
Most of the 27 players taking part in the minicamp were drafted the previous weekend or signed as undrafted rookies. None of the team's veterans were involved. Coaches, support staff and media were also in the structure.
The final scheduled practice of the three-day minicamp was canceled Sunday, though the players attended meetings. Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple said all 27 players were there Sunday, and that none were considered among the injured.
Media were restricted from the Cowboys headquarters Sunday, a ban the team said would continue through at least the next week "due to ongoing work that is scheduled to take place in the aftermath of the accident."
The players arrived together Sunday morning on a bus from the hotel where they were staying. They were off limits to the media, and instructed by the team not to talk about what had happened.
Dalrymple said Jones spent "considerable time" Saturday night and Sunday visiting those in the hospital.
"As we share concern for everyone who was touched by this accident, we also extend our heartfelt and best wishes to Coach Joe DeCamillis and his family as they prepare for Joe's surgery," Jones said. "We are grateful that Greg Gaither's surgery was successful, and we feel blessed that others involved were able to walk away from this accident after receiving medical attention."
Behm, DeCamillis and Gaither were standing on the field when the $4 million structure gave way, sending debris such as the framework and lights crashing to the ground.
The no-frills building was pretty much a 100-yard football field with a few more yards of clearance all the way around. The roof was 80 feet high, the equivalent of an eight-story building.
Calls to Summit Structures LLC, one of the companies involved in building the $4 million facility, were not returned to The Associated Press on Sunday.
A Pennsylvania court ruled in December 2006 that Summit was negligent in the design and construction of a membrane-covered building that collapsed in 2003 after a major snowstorm in Philadelphia. The building was constructed for the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority.
The first voluntary full-squad minicamp for the Cowboys is scheduled May 19-21.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4132947
That's a microburst, and it looks freakin scary.CNN has this picture from right before the collapse apparently
It cost 4 million dollars to build that tent?
Jerry spent 1 billion on the new stadium but has the team practicing in a tarp with poles. WTF?
Here's a real picture of what passed over the camp
The thing looked like a temporary building when it went up. It seems pretty logical that Texas weather was going to bring it down sooner or later.
I wouldn't even get near that thing in a storm. Much less go inside.
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