Texas-OU to stay at Cotton Bowl

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[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]By CHRIS HEINBAUGH / WFAA-TV and DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News[/SIZE] Dallas Mayor Laura Miller will announce Friday that the future of the Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl during the State Fair will be extended through 2015, several Dallas officials said Thursday.


Those officials, who did not wish to be named, said the announcement will be made at a 9 a.m. Friday news conference on the 50-yard line of the Cotton Bowl.

The Grambling-Prairie View game, which also is played at the Cotton Bowl during the State Fair, also will be extended through 2015 as well.

"We're going to have some good news to share with the world tomorrow." said a city official familiar with city negotiations with the two schools.

City Council member Mitchell Rasansky confirmed that Ms. Miller twice called him Thursday morning.

“What she basically said is that they reached an agreement through 2015,” Mr. Rasanksy said.

Businessman Pete Schenkel, who’s helped lead negotiations to reach a contract extension for the Texas/OU game, confirmed that there would be an announcement Friday about the Texas/OU game.

 

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[/SIZE] [SIZE=-1]By CHRIS HEINBAUGH / WFAA-TV and DAVE LEVINTHAL / The Dallas Morning News[/SIZE] Dallas Mayor Laura Miller will announce Friday that the future of the Texas-OU game at the Cotton Bowl during the State Fair will be extended through 2015, several Dallas officials said Thursday.


Those officials, who did not wish to be named, said the announcement will be made at a 9 a.m. Friday news conference on the 50-yard line of the Cotton Bowl.

The Grambling-Prairie View game, which also is played at the Cotton Bowl during the State Fair, also will be extended through 2015 as well.

"We're going to have some good news to share with the world tomorrow." said a city official familiar with city negotiations with the two schools.

City Council member Mitchell Rasansky confirmed that Ms. Miller twice called him Thursday morning.

“What she basically said is that they reached an agreement through 2015,” Mr. Rasanksy said.

Businessman Pete Schenkel, who’s helped lead negotiations to reach a contract extension for the Texas/OU game, confirmed that there would be an announcement Friday about the Texas/OU game.

Too bad... I would imagine that some money did the talking...

This will empower the idiot City Council to pour the millions into the Cotton Bowl renovations they are proposing...

They could have had Jones Town but instead want to pour money into a very old outdated stadium in a rough part of town...

That's one thing I don't miss about living in DFW... the idiots that run the city...

 

[SA_Gunslinger]

i'm surprised it's not going to the new stadium in arlington.

but cool for me...i've never goten to attend that game, and this gives me a few more years.

 

[rantanamo]

why would it be better for a traditional game to go to a new stadium? It should stay where it is for as long as it can. Everything is not always about new. Placing the game into the middle of a parking lot would ruin a lot of what's great about the game. This will go right in conjunction with the underway renovations of Fair Park and the new Southeast rail line.

 

[Mavs Man]

So what happens when the BCS Cotton Bowl game moves to Jerry World in a few years? Will both be the Cotton Bowl?

 

[peplaw06]

why would it be better for a traditional game to go to a new stadium? It should stay where it is for as long as it can. Everything is not always about new. Placing the game into the middle of a parking lot would ruin a lot of what's great about the game. This will go right in conjunction with the underway renovations of Fair Park and the new Southeast rail line.

There's nothing wrong with staying in the traditional stadium... It's just all about money. I have a feeling a typical UT-OU game would pack the new stadium. I don't understand what's keeping the schools at the Cotton Bowl. We all know money talks louder than tradition these days.