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Who You Calling A Jumbotron, Pilgrim?

The announcers for the inaugural game at the new plus-size football stadium in Dallas Monday night kept referring to the humongous screen hanging above the turf as a "Jumbotron." Well, that's a Sony product and the video board is actually a Diamond Vision from Mitsubishi Electric.

In a statement, Richard Sandomir reports, Mitsubishi said it was "like fingernails on a chalkboard" to hear Michaels refer to the giant video boards as Jumbotrons "time and again."

A field goal with no time left on the clock won the game for the New York Giants, adding a more offensive screech in the eardrums of Cowboy fans.

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