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Eight days after installation, the first JumboTron at the former Marine Midland Arena crashed to the ice on November 16, 1996. The eight-sided Daktronics scoreboard, fitted with Sony video screens, was being lowered remotely for routine maintenance.

An arena worker in the rafters began lowering the 23-foot-tall, $4.5 million unit at about 3 p.m., a few hours before a Sabres-Bruins game. Within seconds, two of the supporting cables released much faster than the others and the scoreboard fell.

The collapse occurred minutes after players had finished practice.