The Dallas Cowboys boast one of the world's largest and most technologically advanced stadiums.

But the lack of space for one low-tech item stirred passionate debate this week. Fans started noticing a week ago that the team doesn't have a U.S. flag permanently displayed inside the stadium.

Owner Jerry Jones said Friday on KRLD-FM (105.3) that a flag wouldn't be added. The debate started last weekend when a high school football team did not have a flag at its game, and the national anthem was performed without the Stars and Stripes.

"The policy really is that the people that are in charge of the event make those arrangements relative to our anthem and recognition of the flag," said Jones, speaking to radio hosts Newy Scruggs and Richie Whitt.

Jones told them during his weekly appearance on the station that the Cowboys supply a flag for their own games, and he expects other event organizers to do the same. He said the size of the stadium – believed to be the world's largest indoor sports arena – and the mammoth center-hung scoreboard make placement of a flag difficult.

"Our stadium is so huge that you really have quite a challenge of displaying it so that everyone can see it," he said. "So the place to see it the most clear is in the middle of the event [level]."

Jones also told the radio hosts that no suitable place had been found to hang the team's five Super Bowl banners.

Billy Joe Gabriel of Fort Worth said he's appalled that Jones thinks a "temporary salute" on the field during the national anthem is enough. The flag, he said, symbolizes the freedom that allowed Jones to achieve what he has.

"I just always assumed there was a flag everywhere I went," he said about sports arenas. "Now, I'll be looking."

Kent Parsons, who is planning his first trip to the stadium this weekend for high school football, said the situation is being blown out of proportion. If the Cowboys ensured that teams brought their own flags, this would have never been an issue, he said.

"No matter what he does, half the people are going to be against him," said Parsons, a Richardson resident.

He said that if Jones placed a flag permanently inside the stadium, people would still complain about the location or size or number of them.

Chris Cochren of Dallas described the lack of a flag as disrespectful. He said he doesn't think the publicity will make Jones change his mind, but it's an issue that should be raised.

"The stadium is huge," he said. "There's got to be somewhere on the top where they can place a flag."

Jones said on the radio Friday he doesn't expect to see a repeat of what occurred at the Southlake Carroll-Colleyville Heritage game last weekend when there was no color guard.

"You won't have an issue like that again," Jones said.

He said there are also no plans to hang the team's five Super Bowl banners anywhere in Cowboys Stadium. Banners such as those often hang from the roofs of stadiums or arena or in other prominent places.

At Cowboys Stadium though, there are relatively few signs. Most of the signs – from concession stand menus to advertising – are displayed on thousands of video screens.

"We have the ability to put things in and around that stadium that is a hundred times what we had at Texas Stadium," Jones said. "But you do it digitally."

Addressing the banners, he said: "We may very well have it on the digital boards before we're through."