For the sixth time in the last eight years, the Cowboys on Sunday will open their season under the glare of lights and in front of an NBC prime-time audience.
Not that the NFL's most visible franchise needs high-definition enhancement, but the setting will magnify the Cowboys' scabs and pockmarks from another offseason rash of off-the-field problems.
Most prominent is the ongoing turmoil surrounding star running back Ezekiel Elliott, whose legal efforts to fight a six-game NFL suspension have overshadowed football storylines entering this opener against the division-rival New York Giants.
Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the suspension on Aug.