Big V knows all about Big D, even though AT&T Stadium, home of the Cowboys, is 20 miles west of Dallas, and even though Halapoulivaati Vaitai is more of a Fort Worth guy himself, having grown up in nearby Haltom, Texas.
Sunday night will mark the third time Vaitai has played in the monstrous rhinestone that Jerry Jones nestled onto the Arlington prairie, just between the Wal-Mart Supercenter and the Jack in the Box. He played a high school game there, and one more when he was with Texas Christian. He knows what to expect.
"It will be loud," Vaitai said.