The queso fountain thing was a mildly amusing meme that Precourt, Lalas and Austin Anthem ran completely into the ground.
It's my understanding that the queso fountain is gone, replaced by a local vendor that is now " The Offical Queso Partner" of Austin FC. They have a stand but no fountain. At least that's what I heard.
There was never actually a fountain. It was a queso stand that became the Kerbey Lane stand. Thought I heard that Kerbey dropped out. I could be wrong.
But theye just signed up to be "the official queso partner" of Austin FC, Initially, I figured there was no possibility of having an actual fountain on the assumption that the local board of health would have a stroke at the thought of a long line of people sticking their fingers into communal food. But someone pointed out to me that there are in fact such things in the Southwest, although they're supposedly used at parties and receptions and such. So I stopped assuming that it was all a bunch of hooey.
I wouldn’t trust eating a warm dairy product exposed to hundreds of unclean hands. Maybe that’s just me.
Agree 100%. That thing has staph food poisoning written all over it... especially if you partake in the 2nd half.
Could the Tampa Bay Rays end up as the second professional sports team in Austin?!? https://www.chron.com/sports/article/austin-texas-mlb-team-rays-19990224.php
The Rays owner also owns the TB Rowdies. The Rowdies are very much an after thought in the area. Al Lang is a cool little place to go but it’s not great for soccer watching. The area is also really really cool and fun to be around. But it takes FOREVER to get there due to Tampa area traffic sucking ass. If the Rays moved, the Rowdies would no doubt be sold off or shut down. The latest down here is that the deal to keep the Rays in town had been reached but then Hurricane Milton tore the roof off the Trop and when they said there going to play at Steinbrenner field in Tampa until the new stadium was finished, instead of fixing the Trop, all hell broke loose with the St Pete city council. A lot of posturing back and forth, but as I understand it, the two sides are friends again and the Rays are staying put.
Austin now officially only the 5th largest city in Texas. https://www.chron.com/news/article/texas-population-austin-fort-worth-19998202.php
It looks like it's all going sideways for Austin.... https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/au...cities-people-are-leaving-reports-pods-survey
Per the article: The main reasons cited for the exodus are declining affordability, housing prices, and a lack of space for new home construction. And Other major cities in the top 5 for move-outs include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Long Island, New York.
From a distance, it appears very much like Garber got a big old stiffie for the next hot thing, like a teenage girl falling in love with Hanson after hearing Mmm bop. But Austin isn't all that any more, home to Bachelorette weekends and red dirt music joints, and all the authenticity has been replaced by the functional equivalent of Applebees. It will still be a large enough city but the hip-ness factor is gone. They had a deal with San Antonio, the actual second largest city in Texas, a mature, stable place with plenty of money that didn't need some chubby clown from San Francisco to finance a team. They had local investors ready to go. Now MLS is stuck with Fratboy and his pathetic excuse for an organization, all because Garber went to SXSW once and decided it was the wave of the future instead of a flash in the pan.
Oh, bullshit. City size - which is what that obviously biased article is referencing - is irrelevant. Metro area is what counts, and Austin is the 4th largest metro area in Texas, growing at about an 8% clip, faster than San Antonio, which it could eventually surpass in size in the next few years. The Austin metro area is now larger than these MLS markets: Cincinnati, Kansas City, Columbus, Nashville, San Jose, SLC. It’s also larger and is growing faster than Las Vegas.