jalbre6
10-13-2004, 06:55 PM
I'm sure a bunch of you folks know that the city of Arlington has a vote in the November elections whether to raise $325 million in taxes to go towards a new Cowboys stadium. Now, I haven't checked my mail in about a week until yesterday. When I opened the box up, I had four very professional color booklets from some organization called Vote Yes, which is affiliated with the Touchdown Arlington Jerry Jones group. I have also been called five times at home regarding this, three from polling organizations and two from Vote Yes and Touchdown Arlington. When I tell them of my intent to vote no, even the polling people ask, "Why?". The lady from TD Arlington was really tenacious, talking about how it will add $230 million dollars annually to the suburb's economy, and that how I don't want all that money going to Irving or Dallas. Uhhh, all the other cities already voted no.
Even Dallas' mayor calls the deal Arlington is offering "flabbergastingly generous." The worst part for me in all this is that I live less than a mile from the proposed site, and they plan on turning the street that I live off of into an eight lane (four and four) road.
I can't see how eight home games, plus one preseason game (since the other one usually is somewhere else) and maybe playoff games are gonna raise $230 million bucks. They might be able to lure another second tier bowl, and UT-OU in a longshot. Maybe the Big 12 title game too. But still, there's no way that adds up. The Rangers play 81 home games a year in a gem of a park that only cost $130 million. Of course, there's no retractable roof.
Even Dallas' mayor calls the deal Arlington is offering "flabbergastingly generous." The worst part for me in all this is that I live less than a mile from the proposed site, and they plan on turning the street that I live off of into an eight lane (four and four) road.
I can't see how eight home games, plus one preseason game (since the other one usually is somewhere else) and maybe playoff games are gonna raise $230 million bucks. They might be able to lure another second tier bowl, and UT-OU in a longshot. Maybe the Big 12 title game too. But still, there's no way that adds up. The Rangers play 81 home games a year in a gem of a park that only cost $130 million. Of course, there's no retractable roof.