The Detroit Lions are getting new video boards and they'll be almost as long as the ones Jerry Jones bought for for AT&T Stadium.

The boards will be 152 feet long -- or 8 feet shorter than the main video boards in Arlington, Texas. It is part of an almost $100 million renovation for the Lions, which is expected to be finished by the start of the 2017 season.

The boards won't be nearly as high as the ones in Dallas but will be almost triple the size of the current ones inside Ford Field. The two main video boards, supplied by Daktronics, will be 152 feet wide and 39.5 feet high (the boards in Dallas are 72 feet tall). There will be four other video boards in the stadium that will be 13 feet high and 59 feet wide that can be coordinated with the main screens.

This is one part of the renovations that include increased in-stadium WiFi, upgraded suite areas and concourse space, including the corner bar in the stadium that will have a theme of the team's original home in Detroit, Briggs Stadium. This is part of a renovation of 210,000 square feet of space in the stadium. Rossetti, the initial architects of Ford Field, were consulted on this renovation as well. The audio system upgrade will have 182 separate speakers in eight array clusters to create even better sound. The old Ford Field sound system will be completely replaced.

It is the first major renovations for the stadium that opened in 2002. Besides Lions home games and the Quick Lane Bowl, the venue has hosted Super Bowl XL, the 2009 Final Four, Wrestlemania 23 and a multitude of concerts including the Rolling Stones, Beyonce, Madonna and Taylor Swift. Twice.

On the website touting the renovations, it says the "New Ford Field" will debut this summer.

"At the end of the day it's all about winning football games," Wood said in a video. "And the one thing the fans can do is help us win football games is create a great home field advantage.

"The things that we can do to get as many fans in the building, having a great time, excited about what they are experiencing here and being together I think will help create that home field advantage that helps us win football games."

The Lions, of course, have not done that much winning in the Super Bowl era. They have not hosted a playoff football game since the 1993 season.