Texas School Wastes $1.35M on Sports Jumbotron
Nov 15, 2016 by Breitbart
Texans love high school football and pump exorbitant amounts of taxpayer dollars into funding NFL-style stadiums, but now one school boasts a brand new $1.35 million state-of-the-art jumbotron system, only it remains unclear how the district plans to pay for it.
Last weekend, Seguin High School unveiled the first of two high-definition LED screens at the 61-year-old Matador Stadium where they play five home games a year. The jumbotron is a 1,403 square foot video display with a 16-foot by 4-foot timer. The second 10-foot tall, 19-foot wide video screen, a “tailgate board,” will face the stadium parking lot. The combined size of the two screens will result in a whopping 1,590 square feet of Friday night techno-lights and cost the district $1.35 million.
The Seguin Gazette reported school district officials called it the largest high school scoreboard system in the country. However, the largest single stand-alone high school screen is the 1,513 square foot jumbotron at the Norcross Community Stadium in Georgia.
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