I think this is great. I've travelled all over the country for work, and I've been to the Sportszones in Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, and the one in Times Square in NYC. I've always wondered why Houston didn't have one. Now we will!
espn zone is a tourist trap, you don't want one in your city. I have been to the Zone in New YOrk ONE time, and i swore never to go back. do you people really want a pre-packaged meal/drinking experience when really the mangement is just trying to corrall you in the space, feed you overpriced, overfried food just to push you out the door so they can fit in the next customer, who waits in a queue to get in like its a roller coaster ride? the place is god awful, worse than planet hollywood or All-Star Cafe, both of which are awful.
my thought is, if there are some people who would like it, then it's good to have it...better to have than not have. i don't enjoy the ballet. i just don't. my sister and mother love it...to them, having a ballet company here in town is great. so i love the fact it's here, even though i don't give a damn about it. (for those of you scoring along at home, i just compared a ballet company to the ESPN sportszone! )
Of the one's I've been to (NYC, B-More and Denver) the Denver one is the biggest and by far the most impressive. If they build one it'd better be good, because there are some fabulous sports bars here.
Does anyone hang out downtown? Houston is not a city. It's an unzoned tangled web of suburbs, and putting this downtown spells disaster.
