A barrage of calls to local heavyweights about screen size yielded a muted response. A White House spokesman declined to discuss the president’s TV, citing policy against talking about the residence part of the building. A State Department spokeswoman wouldn’t forward a query to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a well-known football fan. “We answer foreign policy questions here,” she said. And a representative for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) didn’t respond to questions posed by telephone and e-mail about Clinton’s TV.
The Pentagon opened up. “We do have televisions down here,” said Lt. Col. George Wright, deep inside the U.S. Army Operations Center. Specifically, five screens of up to roughly 60 inches, at least two of which are high-def capable.
About 30 staffers are expected to work today. Would they flip on the game? “It is not unusual on Sundays for at least one of the televisions to have professional football on,” Wright said.
How big is the venue?
“Stand by, we’re going to count some tiles,” he said. Coming back a short time later, he reported: “About 34 by 42 feet.”
Read more about big screens in our nation’s capital in the Washington Post story.
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