High School Football games at PHP

Discussion in 'FC Dallas' started by texgator, Sep 6, 2007.

  1. texgator

    texgator New Member

    Oct 28, 2003
    Plano
    This is what I've located so far.

    9/6 - Wakeland vs Centennial
    9/14 - Cent. vs Sachse
    10/5 - Frisco vs The Colony
    10/12 - Cent. vs McKinney North
    10/19 - Cent. vs Frisco (Frisco Derby!!!)
    10/26 - Wakeland vs Princeton
    11/2 - Frisco vs McKinney North
    11/9 - Cent. vs McKinney

    Pretty busy schedule, just about every Friday night. And this is only FISD events. Last year a Plano team played a Dallas team at PHP, so there might be other games. Looks likes lines on the field from here on out, including the playoffs.
     
  2. oman

    oman Member

    Jan 7, 2000
    South of Frisconsin
    Wakeland hasn't won against the Tigers since 1899.

    [​IMG]
     
  3. Dr. Foosball™

    Dr. Foosball™ New Member

    Dec 23, 2006
    Hot Springs, AR
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    holy crap. I thought you guys said that only rivalry games were played @ PHP. At least they won't be painting their name and logo on the field........right?


    I propose that PHP makes the football teams play with yellow grid lines like soccer teams have to do at football stadiums.
     
  4. SeventhRowScreamer

    Jan 26, 2007
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    total b.s. deal. :mad:
    My home town of poeass Ennis built a 10,000 seater. Denton has a 12,500 seater. There are tons of great football stadiums in the area. "Let's F up the only pro soccer pitch in north Texas, yeah that's what we should do". time for Frisco Stadium officials to re-negotiate away a stupid idea. While I'm at it, no more firking La wuss games either. take your sticks and nets and shove 'em or go to Ireland and Hurl. If I see football lines at any FC Dallas games I am instantly going to be a major F'ing pain to the FO.
     
  5. boomersooner027

    May 13, 2004
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    Bahamas
    This was not part of the original deal.
     
  6. fcd_noob

    fcd_noob New Member

    Apr 17, 2007
    Plano
    [​IMG]

    I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.

    :eek:
     
  7. texgator

    texgator New Member

    Oct 28, 2003
    Plano
    What do you mean?? FISD gets total control of Thursday and Friday nights. As far as I can see they are only playing on those days.
     
  8. JuanIg

    JuanIg New Member

    Apr 16, 2006
    Dallas
    Drum'r Boy talked yesterday about Denilson helping the team sell MLS soccer as a "real major league" sport. That job is going to be a lot harder with football lines for a *high school* football game on the pitch. I'm optimistic about Denilson, but his reputation as a global has-been will only be furthered by the image of him playing on a high school football field.
     
  9. texgator

    texgator New Member

    Oct 28, 2003
    Plano
    So the FO is willing to give the FISD back the $20 million it donated to the construction of PHP?


    And even if they are, you'll have to put a price tag on the goodwill created by being associated with the FISD rather than it being an exlusively for profit, professional sporting venue. There was no public vote regarding funding for PHP, but I can assure you the city council wouldn't have been so free to part with millions of $$'s if this wasn't a public/private partnership.
     
  10. oman

    oman Member

    Jan 7, 2000
    South of Frisconsin
    [​IMG]
    "This deal is getting worse and worse all the time."
     
  11. The Gribbler

    The Gribbler Member

    Jul 14, 1999
    Cedar Hill, Texas
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Correction: the high schools are borrowing OUR stadium. I doubt Roger Staubach or Troy Aikman's images have ever been hindered by the fact that Plano or Odessa Permian used Texas Stadium.
     
  12. hutchtx

    hutchtx Member

    Jul 21, 2007
    Texas
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Y'all . . .

    I may be totally wrong, but I think the football games (especially if they are FISD games) are played on the SprintTurf field (I think it's field #4) that's already marked as a football field (which is why they even HAVE that field, I believe). I don't think they play inside the stadium.
     
  13. texgator

    texgator New Member

    Oct 28, 2003
    Plano
    No, the only use Dr Pink for JV...these are full Varsity games and they will be on the field inside the stadium. This is NOTHING NEW, people. This was always the deal.
     
  14. hutchtx

    hutchtx Member

    Jul 21, 2007
    Texas
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I didn't know this (not that I've studied the PHP stadium agreement). I did know that they shared the facilities with FISD.

    Well . . . I guess we'll see how the field looks on Saturday.

    Go HOOPS!
     
  15. MjrGrubert

    MjrGrubert BigSoccer Supporter

    May 22, 2003
    Whitefish, MT
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    IIRC correctly last year there were not many football games and luckily none of those games were played in rainy conditions which would chew up the field. This will be the real test.
    There were some light football lines visible during 2006 season soccer games and I was pleased to say it was almost bearable.
     
  16. texgator

    texgator New Member

    Oct 28, 2003
    Plano
    There were less, and, yes, conditions were very favorable. We also had several instances were a game would be followed by a week or more rest between games. That isn't the case anymore. We knew that 2006 would be a light schedule. Now that there are 3 Varsity football teams in Frisco that is no longer the case. Next year there will be 4.....so....more of the same.

    It was almost hard to see if you sat close to the pitch, it was easier to see from the concourse area, and it looked damn near like fresh white lines on TV.
     
  17. SeventhRowScreamer

    Jan 26, 2007
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    you better read it again. I didn't see 5+ games in the deal. I don't give a crap if they play in the stadium to be honest with you but to paint the field with a football grid and leave it is 100% f'd up. Chalk it and rub it off or whatever you have to do but FCD is technically the main tennant and should get the last say. Tell me I'm cheesy but I like the atmosphere of PHP in its soccer clothes and that's what I pay season ticket money for. If I wanted to see a highschool football field then I'd go down to Ennis and watch some real football and not Frisco's crap teams.
     
  18. texgator

    texgator New Member

    Oct 28, 2003
    Plano
    That's probably because they never specified the number. FISD has ownership of Thursday and Friday nights YEAR ROUND. I'm not great at math, but that's probably more than 5.

    You do realize that it's FCD's field people doing the work, right? Not only do they have "the last say", they are the ones making the lines.

    You wouldn't be watching soccer at PHP if it wasn't for the high school football games. I'm not calling you cheesy, I'm calling you misinformed.
     
  19. SeventhRowScreamer

    Jan 26, 2007
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    your a football kiss @$$:D
     
  20. texgator

    texgator New Member

    Oct 28, 2003
    Plano
    Hey, I could care less about pointyball. I would like nothing more than for PHP to be exclusively soccer. But that ain't the reality.
     
  21. Kevin Lindstrom

    Oct 28, 2003
    Dallas, TX
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    No, he is a realist.

    We're only what, two years into this stadium? We're still figuring out details - trying to push the envelope in places to see how things work. It will probably even be another year or so before we're really explored the whole universe of what we can do to maximize the use of the stadium without going too far.
     
  22. oman

    oman Member

    Jan 7, 2000
    South of Frisconsin
    Put me down as not caring.

    "Fields are meant to be played on."
    -- Emil Faber
     
  23. oman

    oman Member

    Jan 7, 2000
    South of Frisconsin

    Man, I am spending my whole life trying to get a clue, and here you are finishing off the universe in two years.
     
  24. Dr. Foosball™

    Dr. Foosball™ New Member

    Dec 23, 2006
    Hot Springs, AR
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The first FCD game I watched was a PHP playoff game with grid lines. At first I thought "WTF" but now that I have seen what could be if we played at Rice Eccles or Quest where they have the thick sideline and the midfiedl/endzone paint, I think the faint grid lines at PHP are no big deal.
     
  25. texgator

    texgator New Member

    Oct 28, 2003
    Plano
    G-d did it in 6 days.....Kevin's a slacker.
     

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