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Blake Schuster

North Carolina State’s brand new, $15 million videoboard just got wrecked by a thunderstorm

Saturday was a momentous day for the North Carolina State football program.

Not only was the school welcoming Notre Dame to campus for the second-time ever (and the first since 2016), but the home opener was the debut of the Wolfpack’s new, massive videoboard at Carter-Finley Stadium.

The new screen is 7,121 square feet and features 6.6 million pixels and 75 audio speakers making it the 11th largest in college football. The price tag? A cool $15 million.

And it lasted all of one quarter before the skies opened up and proved the technology was no match for mother nature. Seriously, a huge thunderstorm passing through sent NC State searching the fine print of the scoreboard’s warranty terms.

That’s just awful, horrible luck. And maybe a lesson in design and engineering. Here’s hoping they can get it fixed — or at least exchange it for a new one.

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