Has anyone else noticed that the picture they chose to put on the website is the picture that shows the field set up as an american football stadium? It even has the friggin' lines and yard markers on it! The slide show shows the field in about 6 or 7 different angles and set ups, but that is the one they showed.
Well, I didn't mean to stop the presses or anything, but couldn't/shouldn't they have at least put up a picture that should a soccer field instead? I'm not turning in my season tickets or anything, but I just thought it was odd.
I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but let me ask anyway just to make sure. Will there be american football lines on the new field when the Burn play? I'm pretty sure it's a no. Right??
It's been called a "multi-use" field. The local schoold district will be playing HS football games there on Friday nights in the fall. My guess is that it will be an extraordinarily wide flat field that will be marked for the game it is being used for. Maybe they plan to use some space-age super soluble white chalk, who knows? I wouldn't be surprised to see remnants of football lines at some point of the season. Maybe Hunt thinks that after Southlake, no one would ever complain about any other field? The real question is who is the boss at this new stadium? Do we yell at the school district when we think they're laying the chalk too thick? Or do they give us the finger when we bring it up? That's what I'd like to know.
dont worry, it will just be in the fall... same time all the other stadiums are granted pointy-ball lines
Right. It shouldn't be any worse than Gillette, Arrowhead, or Soldier field. Although not as good as Crew Stadium or Home Depot Center.
I hope it is not like the set up in seattle at memorial stadium. Because the football lines are a big distraction to everyone, the players included!!!
Is memorial stadium the same as Husky stadium? Ie, field turf? Frisco stadium will be grass. That much is certain.
No I'm with Taco Bell on this one, if I see Football lines in the fall I'll be pissed. I don't care if they have to lay down tape, no football lines in OUR stadium, we will have waited long enough in the worst stadium (southlake) to put up with that garbage.
Sorry to be a pisser but this will not be "your stadium"... It will be a stadium paid mostly by the people of Frisco and Collin County and will have use as a HS sport stadium as much, if not more than for the Burn. FriscoISD put in many millions into this stadium rather than spend the money on their own lesser facility. Without their money, this thing would have never been built. So, I suggest you just get used to the fact that you might see football lines, faded or not, during parts of soccer season.
I wonder if we will have the pleasure of multi-colored endzones starting in August? That should let us know exactly where we stand as tenants. I don't want to be ungrateful or complain too much, but it's just tough to adjust to the fact that we may never again have a field as beautiful as the Cotton Bowl.
not true. crew stadium hosts a high school football classic in the fall and the lines last <as well as the grass destoryed from the football sidelines> for a few weeks afterwards. the only stadium untouched with be the depot.
yea same here. Hitman, I didn't mean to sound ungrateful, I am exstatic (sp?) that we are getting our own stadium, I just forgot how much Frisco ISD paid. We should just buy the Cotton Bowl and fix it up (I kid, I kid)
Compared to what we will be seeing for the next 2 years - I will be thrilled to see faded football lines beginning in September.
I am not the expert but I am 95% sure that... Part of the deal is that the Burn will be the "operator" of the stadium. They will be responsible for all operating expenses and receive all the revenue. They will also have control of all outside events. Yes there will be high school football player there, but only from September on.
Frisco ISD ($15 million) is putting in more money for this stadium than Lamar Hunt is ($10 million). Given that, I've got precisely zero problem if they want to lay down a gridiron in chalk when September rolls around.
HSG is the operator of the stadium. They're responsible for the upkeep of the place, but they also get all the revenues from the place. Frisco ISD gets to use the place for free for high school varsity football games. So HSG is the boss, but they have a certain civic responsibility. I would expect to see football lines come September, but I wouldn't think that they'd be the ultra-permanent, high-visibility-from-1000-miles-away sort of markings that we've got in Southlake. I would also imagine that since the field will be shared by two high schools, that we wouldn't see any sort of big-time elaborate markings, since I can't imagine that they want to lay those down and erase them and lay down another school's logos and stuff for the next week's game, especially when they've got a pro soccer team playing there who won't be too jazzed about them. Probably just a plain gridiron and numbers. I can live with that.
I can't wait for the outrage that will ensue when the Toolbox hosts its first high school, college, or pro scrimmage football game. And it will.
You had me for a minute with the nickname. I thought where did we pick up that nickname, it sounds like...Oh yeah I get it.