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Old 02-29-2012, 12:45 AM
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Location: Fort Worth
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Texas Stadium was a peace of crap...I was thrilled it got imploded.....
That "peace of crap" was more valuable and iconic than MOST current football stadiums today. Even outside the states.
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Old 02-29-2012, 05:40 AM
 
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Cowboys Stadium is cold, sterile and has a terrible gameday atmosphere -- just like every indoor football stadium does. .

The Super Dome has a great gameday atmosphere
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Old 02-29-2012, 07:45 AM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Cowboys stadium is the best stadium in the world period. Imagine it in the heart of Dallas with the skyline in the background.
Imagine the Rangers playoff games with the skyline lit up in the background.
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Old 02-29-2012, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Washington D.C. By way of Texas
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Imagine the Rangers playoff games with the skyline lit up in the background.
The ballpark is the bigger disappointment. No ballpark should be in the suburbs. Dallaz seems to believe that the Arlington Mayor brought them there. I'm not buying that one bit. You don't move from a city of nearly 800,000 at the time to a suburb of 60,000 and it be a smart business move. Sorry. The Rangers belong in an urban setting and only two cities in the entire metroplex offers that. Arlington isn't one of them. Unfortunately, FW outside of downtown is even more suburban than Dallas with no hint of public transit outside of busses.
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Old 02-29-2012, 10:05 AM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Imagine the Rangers playoff games with the skyline lit up in the background.
True that.

Even Fort Worth's skyline would've been a better backdrop for the ballpark.

Anything except Arlington & its sterile suburban nothingness. Can you even see Six Flags from inside the ballpark? LOL

Why didn't Fort Forth ever petition to get the Rangers back in the day?
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Old 02-29-2012, 10:26 AM
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Location: Fort Worth
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True that.

Even Fort Worth's skyline would've been a better backdrop for the ballpark.

Anything except Arlington & its sterile suburban nothingness. Can you even see Six Flags from inside the ballpark? LOL

Why didn't Fort Forth ever petition to get the Rangers back in the day?
I live in that city and your guess is just as good as mine.....
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Old 02-29-2012, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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The difference with the Rangers is they were always an Arlington team. Fort Worth didn't try to get them because it was Tom Vandergriff, Arlington's mayor, who enticed the team to move here from Washington, D.C. He made an offer to move the Senators here to be a regional team based in Arlington in a stadium that already existed at the time. Kansas City almost moved to Dallas before Washington, but it fell through.

Either way, I agree. They should move downtown, too. And Fort Worth should let us have them because you already have a baseball team by your downtown. Quit trying to hog everything.
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Old 02-29-2012, 02:02 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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Texas Stadium was a peace of crap...I was thrilled it got imploded.....
It was a piece of crap becuase it was old. If you saw Texas Stadium in 1971 you would be in awe. People in the 70s thought that stadium was beautiful. 20 years from now Cowboys Stadium will be considered ugly and out of date.
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Old 02-29-2012, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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The best stadium in the suburbs maybe, but not the World.
You just mad because it's not in East Texas.
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Old 02-29-2012, 07:02 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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It was a piece of crap becuase it was old. If you saw Texas Stadium in 1971 you would be in awe. People in the 70s thought that stadium was beautiful. 20 years from now Cowboys Stadium will be considered ugly and out of date.
Texas Stadium was never attractive, sorry. There have been so many jokes over the years about that large gaping hole in the roof. The architect never accounted for the weight to support the retractable roof originally planned. Can you say FAIL?



The Cowboys won their very first game played there against the Patriots & lost their last game against the Ravens.

Not a happy ending.
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