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WAIT! Now they want a new team HQ!?

Pretty soon they're going to move the team to Mississippi or Alabama, call themselves the Alabama Behemoths, or the Mississippi Colossus's.
 
SnakeEyes said:
Al and Hannah are now starting to look for a location to build a new practice area. Which is probably going to include practice fields, weight room, team offices and maybe more.

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Yeah, but why do we care? No where in the article does it mention public funding.

Fun fact, the Cowboys built their new facility in Frisco, to the tune of 1.5 billion (more than it cost to build AT&T), with some funding help from the City of Frisco and Frisco ISD. The school district got a new stadium for HS games out of the deal (usual price tag is around 50 million in that part of town); but the real kicker is that it's actually turning a profit for both the Cowboys and the city. I don't like the football team; but this was a nifty bit of business; and I can see any number of suburban communities willing to make the deal.

Also from the article, for the Chicken Little crowd:
A new lease could see a different structure where the Texans control more dates and pay for the maintenance and upkeep at NRG Stadium. Regardless, the McNairs say they are interested in a deal that satisfies everyone involved and they want what’s best for the city.
They echoed Tomon’s comments last month to the Chronicle that they plan to remain in the Greater Houston area, and would not leave. Both Cal and Hannah McNair were born and raised in Houston.
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The team taking control of the lease would be best for all parties involved.
 
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If they try to take the tax payers by the short curlies I have a problem with that.

IF they spend their money... couldn't care less... a billionaires money is just that.... theirs... they don't need to justify a dime to anyone.

Although, if they just want to throw their money around..... I'm willing to catch some.

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banned1976 said:
Pretty soon they're going to move the team to Mississippi or Alabama, call themselves the Alabama Behemoths, or the Mississippi Colossus's.
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I sort of like Alabama Behemoth Colossus or ABC. For our fight song we could have the Michael Jackson song! During timeouts, the song could begin and all the players on the field could begin moonwalking.
 
Errant Hothy said:
Yeah, but why do we care? No where in the article does it mention public funding.

Fun fact, the Cowboys built their new facility in Frisco, to the tune of 1.5 billion (more than it cost to build AT&T), with some funding help from the City of Frisco and Frisco ISD. The school district got a new stadium for HS games out of the deal (usual price tag is around 50 million in that part of town); but the real kicker is that it's actually turning a profit for both the Cowboys and the city. I don't like the football team; but this was a nifty bit of business; and I can see any number of suburban communities willing to make the deal.

Also from the article, for the Chicken Little crowd:


The team taking control of the lease would be best for all parties involved.
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I agree with you. And Hannah I think it is states something like "we don't own the land... but if we did it would be easier"

Harris county needs to sell the land to them yesterday 😆
 
If they were smart, they would locate the training facility in a location that is cooler than the sun's surface in July and August.
 
Porky said:
If they were smart, they would locate the training facility in a location that is cooler than the sun's surface in July and August.
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Especially since NRG's roof is closed 99.99% of the time.
 
Porky said:
Natural grass is safer sir. I'm pretty sure Doc Jean would agree with that. Fewer lower limb injuries. Would you agree with that assessment?
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Agreed, but your statement wasn’t about what’s safer..it was about trying to escape the heat..if i understood your comment correctly.
 
If you could modify NRG to use the same field system as Arizona and Las Vegas that would be awesome, could also be used for the new practice facility. Essentially a natural grass field that is indoors.
 
Errant Hothy said:
If you could modify NRG to use the same field system as Arizona and Las Vegas that would be awesome, could also be used for the new practice facility. Essentially a natural grass field that is indoors.
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We already had natural grass trays and it was probably one of the worst, if not THE worst field in the NFL. It caused that nasty Clowney injury in his rookie season, among others.
 
Mangler said:
We already had natural grass trays and it was probably one of the worst, if not THE worst field in the NFL. It caused that nasty Clowney injury in his rookie season, among others.
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I know, that's why I specifically mentioned Arizona and Las Vegas, and modifying NRG to use such a system. They don't use trays but a singular tray that contains the entire surface, removing any and all seams

 
Mr teX said:
Agreed, but your statement wasn’t about what’s safer..it was about trying to escape the heat..if i understood your comment correctly.
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Fair point. I was thinking about both but didn’t state it. Meaning if you go somewhere more pleasant, you don’t need an indoor facility.

Do I think that will happen? Nope. I think they like having training camp here for multiple reasons, not the least of which is allowing fans access. It was more theoretical with tongue firmly in cheek.
 
Errant Hothy said:
I know, that's why I specifically mentioned Arizona and Las Vegas, and modifying NRG to use such a system. They don't use trays but a singular tray that contains the entire surface, removing any and all seams

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I'm no structural engineer, but I think modifying NRG for such a system would be prohibitively expensive. If you notice, in Arizona the end zone where the field gets rolled out there are only a small amount of bleachers. In Vegas, it seems, they came up with a system to be able to support full scale seating on that end, despite the fact they couldn't build traditional concrete supports on that side, since you need the entire width of the field "hole" under the seating.

NRG has multiple supports with foundations that I'm sure go deep below the ground. You'd have to tear all that down and rebuild it in a way that resembles whatever they did in Vegas. Might as well build a new stadium at that point.

What they could do is what Real Madrid did during their latest renovation, and our new team president was at Real Madrid during that time.

 
paycheck71 said:
I'm no structural engineer, but I think modifying NRG for such a system would be prohibitively expensive. If you notice, in Arizona the end zone where the field gets rolled out there are only a small amount of bleachers. In Vegas, it seems, they came up with a system to be able to support full scale seating on that end, despite the fact they couldn't build traditional concrete supports on that side, since you need the entire width of the field "hole" under the seating.

NRG has multiple supports with foundations that I'm sure go deep below the ground. You'd have to tear all that down and rebuild it in a way that resembles whatever they did in Vegas. Might as well build a new stadium at that point.

What they could do is what Real Madrid did during their latest renovation, and our new team president was at Real Madrid during that time.

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I agree about modifying NRG, in fact I'd say it's probably impossible from a structural standpoint.

I like the Real system but digging that far down in Houston comes with its own challenges. And it has seams, I'd rather the Texans play on turf over a surface with seams of anykind
 
Errant Hothy said:
I agree about modifying NRG, in fact I'd say it's probably impossible from a structural standpoint.

I like the Real system but digging that far down in Houston comes with its own challenges. And it has seams, I'd rather the Texans play on turf over a surface with seams of anykind
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I get the concern about seams, but the old tray system literally had hundreds of vertical and horizontal seams. This would only be 3-4 vertical seams. I don't think it would be a big deal. I might argue that the seams would be a bigger issue in soccer than football just because their field requirements are a lot more strict than NFL's
 
paycheck71 said:
I get the concern about seams, but the old tray system literally had hundreds of vertical and horizontal seams. This would only be 3-4 vertical seams. I don't think it would be a big deal. I might argue that the seams would be a bigger issue in soccer than football just because their field requirements are a lot more strict than NFL's
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True, and nobody has complained about Real's field (as long as no Arsenal player gets hurt in the return leg of the Champions league). The videos are extremely impressive to watch.
 
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