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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3444853, member: 27"]
This brings up a good question.

With the new roof in place, how far will it be from the roof to the field?

The NFL has a minimum requirement of 85 feet.  The new center hung scoreboard at JerryWorld is 90 feet from the field.

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I know the walls of the dome are 90 feet high.  Assuming they start at field level (I believe this is correct), the lowest the scoreboard should hang is even with the tops of the walls.

Is that going to be possible?

We know the height of the roof is going up 29 feet, from 159 feet to 188 feet.

From that 188 foot number, we have to account for the height of the vertical support bars near the center of the roof.  I don't think that number has been published.  I am guessing it is about 20 feet.  Add another foot or two for cable connectors above and below.  That takes us to around 23 feet.

We know the new scoreboard is going to be 20 feet high.

We are going to need to account for some space for the support cables to hang the scoreboard on the roof cables.  Because the roof slopes down from the center, and the scoreboard is huge, this could be a significant distance.  Let's say 20 feet.  Can't imagine it being worse than that.

That is 63 feet.  If we round up to 65 feet, the bottom of the scoreboard would still be at least 123 feet above the field.

Unless I am missing something, or the numbers provided to date are not accurate, we should be fine.

188   Highest point of roof (from the outside)

165   Bottom of roof

145   Top of scoreboard

125   Bottom of scoreboard

0       Field
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