Halfway down a NY Times article by Jack Bell, he reports: Hunt Sports Group "last week completed its acquisition of the Burn. The Dallas franchise, which will move its home games from the Cotton Bowl to Dragon Stadium in Southlake, Tex., had been run by the league for the last six years. With the deal, the Anschutz Entertainment Group now runs 6 of 10 M.L.S. teams, Hunt 3 and Robert Kraft one." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/sports/soccer/04SOCC.html
On the bright side, hopefully this will help increase the chances that the Burn end up with their own SSS. Frisco will now be negotiating with the actual owner of the Burn, rather than a group that promised it would become the team's owner if an SSS were built, but, until now, had shown a reluctance to fully invest in the team.
Are we going to place stock in a New York paper? Come on Texans, you should know better. Until a more reputable source reports, I will take this with a grain of salt.
While I have heard that Hunt will buy the Burn he has seemed to have some major reluctance. I wonder if he's being pressured into this...why would he want to buy our club now when over a year ago he was negotiating with a city to build a stadium. Why not step up then and still buy the team. Someone else said it earlier that why would someone want to commit the millions of dollars for a SSS when we can't even get an owner to commit to the team...it's a sad time. I just hope we have such a great year that we don't get relocated regardless as to if a stadium gets built. Only when the first brick gets placed in the dirt will I sleep easy at night.
About a year ago - Hunt Jr said it would be most anti-climactic announcement MLS ever made. I guess he was right. Its not official yet - I'll believe it when I see it on mlsnet, but lets hope it gets announced quickly so we can move on to more pressing topics - like how we can get Nunez. But if and when this gets announced - Thank you Uncle Lamar.
Soccer Digest claimed he had bought the team in January. I think that this shows absolute confidence that the Burn will get an SSS in the near future. If not Frisco, there is plenty of land around, and little towns that want to get thier names on the map. Maybe right across the street from Lone Star Park. Or next to the dirt track at Texas Motor Speedway. Just examples. I doubt he was forced into it. If he was reluctant, it was just because he didn't want the entire league owned by AEG.