The Dallas Morning News ran an article by Bruce Nichols on the fate of the Astrodome over the weekend.
The article breaks no new ground, but maybe Dallasites are as used to reading “olds” in their newspaper as Houstonians.
Nichols closed with this:
Taxpayers still owe about $50 million for Dome renovations in the 1980s and, so far, no one has talked seriously about demolishing what many still see as an asset.
But no one talked seriously about new baseball and football stadiums until Oilers owner Bud Adams told Houston it was time and hit the city with a symbolic two-by-four by moving his team to Nashville, Tenn.
He should read more blogs.
UPDATE: A very gracious reader (the author!) emailed that I cut off the end of the article, which I had done (inadvertently). I’ve pasted in the last sentence of the article, which should have been there from the start! Mea culpa.
