You left out Grande Communications Stadium (now Astound Broadband Stadium) in Midland, TX. Got a 25 year $1.2mm naming rights deal in 2002 which was biggest of its kind at the time. It was completed in 2002, seats 15k with 18k capacity and I believe cost $25mm at the time. It was candidly the first of the new mega expensive stadiums.
We went to a playoff game in Odessa back in the 80’s and I mentioned to a hometown fan that they sure had a lot of home fans on the visitor’s side. He replied, “There is no visitor’s side in Odessa.” And yes, they won.
You left out Grande Communications Stadium (now Astound Broadband Stadium) in Midland, TX. Got a 25 year $1.2mm naming rights deal in 2002 which was biggest of its kind at the time. It was completed in 2002, seats 15k with 18k capacity and I believe cost $25mm at the time. It was candidly the first of the new mega expensive stadiums.
Considering florida only has ~1/5 the amount of high school football players Texas does, their success of sending folks to the NFL is impressive.
We went to a playoff game in Odessa back in the 80’s and I mentioned to a hometown fan that they sure had a lot of home fans on the visitor’s side. He replied, “There is no visitor’s side in Odessa.” And yes, they won.
this is exactly the kind of open-faced civic insanity I subscribed for, excellent breakdown.