[weegee]

Houston PING

A billion dollars later...

"It's not going to be done the way it was done with other stadiums, where the taxpayers picked up the tab," White said. "We're not going to do some special deal of giving a lot of money that could go to police or fire to a sports owner."

Minute Maid Park, Reliant Stadium and Toyota Center, all recently built sports venues in Houston, were financed for the most part with public monies.

[Paleo Conservative]

"A severe shortage of quality soccer pitches within the area has long restricted our ability to compete for regional and national level events,"

Oh come on. There are several large football stadiums that in the Houston area that could be used for soccer.

[Allegra]

Err...I didn't even know we had a MLS team in Houston.

When did we get the Dynamo?

[Haddit]

Wow, the Mexicans will be able to boo our National Anthem in Houston.

[Barney Gumble]

"It's not going to be done the way it was done with other stadiums, where the taxpayers picked up the tab," White said. "We're not going to do some special deal of giving a lot of money that could go to police or fire to a sports owner."

Thankfully. Out of town Brown loved spending taxpayer money on stadiums.

Does Joel Osteen & Lakewood church have to pay the taxpayers back for the Compaq center?

[Xenalyte]

Soccer is for Eurofags. When did they take over our city?

[stevie_d_64]

What they could do is draw the illegal crowd in by giving them a 20% discount...ICE may...Or may not have a good day...

[JRios1968]

As if having a “professional” succer team wasn’t insulting enough for the fine people of Houston...

[Eaker]

This is wrong on every level.

Let these fools play soccer in hell.

[montag813]

Soccer is for fags.