The Red River Shootout will stay in Dallas

[jtk1519]

The contract with the Cotton Bowl was extended through 2010. Both schools have given the city/county of Dallas another in a long line of chances to pull their heads out of their a**es and fix the stadium. Maybe now they will do it, but with Laura Miller running the show, I wouldn't hold my breath.

Dallas has committed $50 million towards the stadium that will bring it's capacity up to 90,000, but that is but a band-aid on a gun wound. Dallas will have to step up if they want this game to stay longer.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/050506dnmetcottonbowl.c87abc7.html

http://cbs11tv.com/video/?id=9516@ktvt.dayport.com

[GoOwls]

Actually, the agreement is a 2 year extension of the contract that expires in 2008 and doesn't carry any guarantees of renovations to the Cotton Bowl, Laura Miller made sure to make that point very plain. I think the City of Dallas will do mostly nothing, if not cosmetic work, and allow this thing to play out. I think the reason Texas agreed to the extension is because 2011 is when Jerry Jones' new diggs for the Cowboys will surely be completed and the game can be moved there.

The Dallas city council is a bumbling gaggle of idiots and always has been. They lost the race for the Rangers new stadium, they almost lost the Stars and Mavericks if not for a Herculean effort from Ron Kirk to save the deal, they lost the horse race track, they lost the Cowboys by not accepting Jerry's 300 million of his own money to revamp Fair Park, and they will most certainly loose the Red River Shootout also because Laura and nobody else at city hall have the smarts and business sense of Jerry Jones.

[svhorns]

Naw man im pretty sure its through 2010 thats what every news source and the world is saying.

[GoOwls]

Naw man im pretty sure its through 2010 thats what every news source and the world is saying.

Yes, it ends in 2010, but the old contract ends in 2008 and this really isn't a 5 year contract, it's a contract with 3 years left on it expiring in 2008 with a new 2 year extension to 2010. Please re-read my earlier post.:)

[reed35]

There was one councilman that stated he would try to push for renovations, something like 10 mil instead of the proposed 30 mil. We will see.