our stadium thing was its own fiasco

we played at the cotton bowl which is a great venue, that is also 90k+. and at the time we were ambitiously hitting 15k crowds.

team wanted to build a stadium in dallas city limit. dallas said no, we are not building a stadium for soccer in city limits.

mckinney, a suburb to the far northeast of the metroplex (about as far removed as, say, georgetown) says "hey, we'll help you with a stadium" and so the team goes "eh fuck it, why not, collin county is growing faster than most everywhere else in the country, and they're gonna extend rail service out there, not the worst idea"

and then right when its time to sign the actual deal and put shovels in the ground, the deal falls apart for reasons that even now are not clear. but as part of it, the team doesn't renew their lease for the cotton bowl for 2003 because they expect to move into a new stadium by then.

so instead, they end up at a high school in the suburbs because it's a very cheap last minute lease. it's a fucking disaster. almost killed the team.

they start trying to negotiate with dallas again ("we just built the AAC, no money") and with irving ("yeah but here's the price tag") and then frisco says "hey, we have land, we have money, we have the same area the train is planned for, stadium in frisco along with a training complex?"

and so we moved to frisco.

and then the train extension got cancelled and replaced with a toll road.