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Post by P. Marf on Oct 9, 2007 17:38:04 GMT -5
Anti-Texan, Anti-American.
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Post by rp on Oct 9, 2007 17:57:19 GMT -5
agreed. griping about traffic 8 days a year when in return you get to have America's team as your home team = gay.
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Oct 9, 2007 18:14:32 GMT -5
So, is routing against TU anti-Texan? Doesn't Finch hate the Pokes too? Is he anti-Texan?
I don't want them in my home town. What do they contribute to the local economy? Very little. Irving screwed that up years ago and before they even started looking for a new place it was too late to change. Jerry will make tons of money in the new place but only because the city leaders in Arlington have had their heads on straight for 35 years. Irving's leaders have had their heads up dey asses. Texas Stadium has been a tax sieve for the last 20 years. Irving's infrastructure sucks and their schools went from exemplary to shit. With TS gone, they can redevelop that land properly and direct more money into the city's ecomony. Over 500,000 cars pass through that area daily and all they see is an ugly, pathetic, money pit. Now, they can use it to showcase the best of what Irving has to offer. TS moving is the best thing to happen to Irving since the Cowboys originally moved there. Thankfully, the ones responsible for developing that land are the ones that made Las Colinas and Valley Ranch what it is. Maybe we could even put some schools in that area instead of leasing the north Irving kids to Carrolton-Farmers Branch.
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Post by cowtownmike on Oct 9, 2007 18:31:08 GMT -5
That Nick Folk is one cold blooded sonofabitch! I loved it when he knocked that thru twice! It would have been cool if he had missed the first one and then nailed the second. That jackass coach for Buffalo would think twice about that bullshit strategy. That rule should be changed.
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Post by cowtownmike on Oct 9, 2007 18:31:55 GMT -5
So, is routing against TU anti-Texan? Doesn't Finch hate the Pokes too? Is he anti-Texan? I don't want them in my home town. What do they contribute to the local economy? Very little. Irving screwed that up years ago and before they even started looking for a new place it was too late to change. Jerry will make tons of money in the new place but only because the city leaders in Arlington have had their heads on straight for 35 years. Irving's leaders have had their heads up dey asses. Texas Stadium has been a tax sieve for the last 20 years. Irving's infrastructure sucks and their schools went from exemplary to shit. With TS gone, they can redevelop that land properly and direct more money into the city's ecomony. Over 500,000 cars pass through that area daily and all they see is an ugly, pathetic, money pit. Now, they can use it to showcase the best of what Irving has to offer. TS moving is the best thing to happen to Irving since the Cowboys originally moved there. Thankfully, the ones responsible for developing that land are the ones that made Las Colinas and Valley Ranch what it is. Maybe we could even put some schools in that area instead of leasing the north Irving kids to Carrolton-Farmers Branch. After Cowboys move: Irving =White Settlement |
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Post by P. Marf on Oct 9, 2007 19:11:01 GMT -5
Stubbs I think you are missing the point. You are trying to make this about a city and its economy and unsportslike stuff. Its simple, its football, its the Cowboys, its greatness. If they piss you off that bad move a few miles to Carrolton or something.
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Post by Ticket Mouse on Oct 9, 2007 21:37:56 GMT -5
You obviously haven't been watching the news lately...my kind isn't welcome in that part of the world...
I realize that I was starting to sound like Laura Miller there...
In reality, Jerry only had two places in mind. Irving, Denton, Lewisville, and Fort Worth can all say they looked into it but Jerry was only going to one of two places and deep down, I think he preferred Arlington over the city of Dallas anyway. Dallas would never be able to get their shit together to allow him to fulfill his vision of the new stadium. It would have been nice for Irving to get that kind of thing too but that's like dating a whore who all of a sudden wants to save it for marriage. Irving had let Jerry pretty much freeload for years. There's no way that relationship would have worked. Much like Dallas, Irving would have found a way to screw it all up. In reality, Irving has much bigger problems to tackle-number one being fixing the schools that are just a joke. Ten, fifteen years down the road, this would have been a great thing for Irving but giving Jerry the deal Arlington did would have meant a tremendous sacrifice that it would probably never be able to recover from. Irving just doesn't have 15 years to sit and hope to turn a profit.
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Post by fischer on Oct 10, 2007 8:25:57 GMT -5
Another smite to stubbs. Griping about 8 days of traffic and having the most famous football stadium in the world in your home town is really really gay. Yeah, I bet ALL the citezens of Irving drive by Texas Stadium thinking about how much they wish the city of Irving would have handled things better.
A more likely scenario is most citeznes driving by Texas Stadium and being proud that the most successful and storied NFL franchise calls their otherwise blan and unhistoric suburb home. It gives them an identity that they would have no chance at otherwise.
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Post by cowtownmike on Oct 10, 2007 8:36:59 GMT -5
An Irving citizen complaining about Texas Stadium is akin to a Parisian bitching about the Eiffel Tower or a New Yorker griping about the Statue of Liberty.
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Post by fischer on Oct 10, 2007 9:32:58 GMT -5
exactly. Except Texas Stadium is better because it is a football stadium.
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Post by cowtownmike on Oct 10, 2007 9:42:07 GMT -5
The only place more sacred than Texas Stadium is the Alamo.
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Post by fischer on Oct 10, 2007 10:05:37 GMT -5
yeah, it goes like this:
Alamo
Texas Stadium
Kyle Field
Sam Houston Statue
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Post by cowtownmike on Oct 10, 2007 10:25:41 GMT -5
Where is the Sam Houston statue?
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Post by fischer on Oct 10, 2007 10:39:13 GMT -5
in huntsville. Its kind of scary actually. You are just driving down I 45 and there it is, its freaking huge.
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Post by rp on Oct 10, 2007 10:53:52 GMT -5
A more likely scenario is most citeznes driving by Texas Stadium and being proud that the most successful and storied NFL franchise calls their otherwise blan and unhistoric suburb home. Yeah. I don't live in Irving, but every time I drive by it I usually think of all the players who played there or all of the games that were played. I don't have kids so I don't worry about the schools. Or the economy. |
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