Well, at least the city’s proposed financing for this boondoggle is less than this one ($80 million versus $150 million plus who knows how much?).
But really. How many new and well-furnished high school football stadiums are located in the Houston area that would be more than acceptable for what amounts to minor league soccer? Half a dozen? At least the major league football and baseball teams could argue that the city’s facilities were no longer adequate when compared to other cities’ major league football and baseball stadiums. What is soccer’s reasoning? That the local governments financed stadiums for football, basketball and baseball, so it should do the same thing for soccer, too?
However, what really gripes me about all this is the proposed location for the soccer stadium — it’s smack dab in the middle of where I park for Stros games. ;^)