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Deberg_1990

09-29-2016 08:19 PM

Houston just voted to turn the Astrodome into a parking lot

'Hamas' Jenkins

09-29-2016 08:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee (Post 12456164)

ROFL - that was the place where I saw live wrestling live my one and only time. Got to see Junkyard Dog [my maternal grandma's HERO], and got close enough to high-five Michael 'PS' Hayes.

Never really was much into wrestling, but when we watched, it was Mid-South, not WWF or the 'hollywood' stuff, because my grandma [and mom's whole side of the family down in LA really] watched Mid-South forever.

Mid-South was the promotion of the hardcore fan in those days. The guy who ran the territory, Bill Watts, was so old-school that if one of his wrestlers got in a bar fight and lost, he'd fire him because he'd lose credibility in front of the audience.

mdstu

09-29-2016 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by OmahaChief (Post 12455879)

I look at the Silverdome and see so much waste. That filed turf could have been torn up and used for nice youth field somewhere and all those seats could have been reused for something else. I had to see usable things like that wasted.

I read 5 or 10 years ago that the Silverdome was sold at auction to a small company for $200,000. Then when they realized that it was going to cost them many millions in commercial taxes and maintenance they defaulted and filed bankruptcy. They couldn't even afford to demo it.

big nasty kcnut

09-30-2016 12:16 AM

Funny I thought mile high stadium was going to be there.

Nickhead

09-30-2016 12:29 AM

i say turn the old stadiums into farmers gardens/markets :D

Passepartout

09-30-2016 12:38 AM

Old stadiums need to have new breath of life. Either try to rebuild or indeed tear them down.

Nickhead

09-30-2016 01:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Passepartout (Post 12456759)

Old stadiums need to have new breath of life. Either try to rebuild or indeed tear them down.

am curious if the stadium trusts ever paid back the portion of monies taxpayers put towards it?

i absolutely hate that professional sports asks for taxpayer monies for funding. i mean what other sport are you going to get in their that can cap out at 80 thousand people a week.

its a backhanded slap to the fan, and to those that would never go to an event.

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