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... is for Jumbotron

HOUSTON A – Z | THE SUPER BOWL EDITION
Photography by Sofia van der Dys
Where can you find the biggest Jumbotron in the NFL ® ? Right here in Houston at NRG Stadium ! After all , scoreboard excess has been a way of life and a point of pride in H-Town since the days of the original exploding Astrodome board in the mid-1960s .
The jumbo-est Jumbotron provides fans in the seats with all the technological bells and whistles they can access at home in front of their computers , mobile devices and flat-screen HD monitors . Produced by Mitsubishi , the $ 16.5 million screen is made up of a series of connected boards , each measuring 52 feet high by 277 feet wide , for a total 14,549 feet of display that ’ s packed with 5.28 million pixels . It ’ s a whole 25 percent larger than the Cowboys Stadium behemoth . Ha-ha ! january 17 | LOCAL 45