I loved the Cotton Bowl... always had. I'd park over in exposition park behind Tarantino's/Bar Of Soap, walk throught the amazing art deco buildings of Fair Park, and approach that huge monolithic entrance. Yeah, it was old school... but what a view of Downtown! Oh yeah, having someone come down into your seating section and SELLING YOU BEER. tm
The playoff games during the state fair. A $10 ticket could get you a great seat at midfield as well as free admission to the best fair in the land.
And don't forget these two: If it rained you could move up and get cover from the rain and still watch the game. If it was really hot and sunny you could move up and get cover from the sun and still watch the game. Not my favorite two reasons but two pretty good ones.
I've always firmly believed that the rest of the world would not take American Soccer seriously until we had a good, honest, full-blown soccer riot. Fire, property damage, injuries. Deep inside I had always planned on being the vanguard, the catalyst to bring about this event. And the Cotton Bowl would be the perfect place, especially if we were planning to move out at the end of the season! But now that opportunity has been taken away from me! I miss the riot! (and the beer)
you can burn down the high school when we're done with it. Dallas Burn fan+Dragon stadium=Fire? it'd be worth it for the newspaper headline puns alone.
Well put. I've written before that if you were in a foreign city (Buenos Aires to Prague) had a situation where you could stop in at a pub and have a beer, walk across the street to a beautiful old park with massive art deco buildings and fountains and then watch a good game in literally an historic stadium, you'd be in soccer heaven, whether or not there were 60,000 people in the stadium (and remember, in a lot of the world 10,000 is a typical and fine turnout). But it was right there in Dallas. I know the league can't make money in this setting and that, for some reason, people salivate more at the thought of watching a game in a plastic and cement 15,000 prefab piece of crap in a faceless suburb, but I'll miss what was in Dallas.
I remember back in the 1980's I went to several Texxas Jams in the CB. Between shows skinny mulleted rednecks would get out on the field and have impromptu kung fu throwdowns. People would be throwing cups and objects from the upper deck to the lower, and "of course" women would occasionally take off their tops for the world to see. The Cotton Bowl definitely has riot potential--at least on a moderate scale. No way you'll ever get that in Southlake. I'm also mourning the inevitable loss of the comparatively vociferous Latin fans and those sweet Latina honeys at the new place. Oh, well, that's progress
I think the worst thing is we didn't go out with a win. Lets give the cRapids a extra ass whoopin in Southlake this year
Easy access in and out of the place. Fair park has so many entrances that it was a breeze to get in and out of the place. The spanish speaking announcers on radio and tv referring to the home of the Burn as "el estadio mundialista". The games played during the State Fair. The original Islamico. Eating down in Deep Ellum before a game. Grabbing a few beers in Deep Ellum after a game. Mostly I will miss the memories that the Burn provided us at the Cotton Bowl over the span of seven years. I could look around the Cotton Bowl and tell you exactly where some of most memorable events in Burn history. The place had Burn history and all of that has just been flushed. The new venue will eventually have a history of it's own, hopefully it will be more memorable than what we have experienced at the Cotton Bowl.
ooo I got another one. Jamming out to the Inferno drums in the halls after the game. Good luck doing that in those cramped halls of Southlake. pshhh...looks like we'll have to do it in the parking lot and wake up the town
I'll miss playing in the hall also. People really got into it. They would dance, video tape us, cheer, and sometimes play along with us. Every now and then someone would say how much they enjoyed hearing us play. I'll kind of miss walking through Fair Park after a game. Fair Park would illuminate the place with lights in the trees. Whether you were headed to the parking lot or to the Old Mill Inn, it was a nice walk.
Man... I totally forgot about Old Mill! Where else in the league do some players go and hang after a game just for the fans? It's where I got to shake hands with Snoop Eddie Ed. Which also reminds me of my least favorite aspect of the Cotton Bowl... if the Old Mill's ATM was down, there wasn't cash for 238462 miles. tm
If you're talking about Southlake...no chance. Its a high school stradium for crying out loud. Its fake grass. I graduated high school in 1986 - now I'm going back. I am trying to be optomistic and keep an open mind but the sooner the Burn get the hell out of a HIGH SCHOOL stadium the better. I'd rather be back in college.
You better get used to sharing our Dallas Burn with a HIGH SCHOOL. I am certain that the business model at Southlake is the same as the one that would exist in Frisco with the exception that the stadium has not been built yet.