Amy Barnett has been in the oversized American flag rental business for six years, but when the NFL called and said it needed to use her big flags stadiums around the country this past Sunday, Barnett had a problem.
She didn't have enough flags. She had five field-length flags that are 150 feet by 300 feet and run from goalline to goalline with about 10 feet of room for people on the sidelines.
"We needed to build seven more flags," Barnett said, from her 50 Star Productions headquarters in Centerville, Utah.
The rush order went in to manufacturer Colonial Flag, also based in Utah, and although it takes a month to typically build one of the flags, which weighs 1,100 pounds and cost $50,000 each, the company was able to build seven for Barnett in 10 weeks.