I'm a results oriented person and by any metric the last 22 years on the field has been a failure. However the McNair's have made BILLIONS off of their investment. Let them wait 7 years and then the citizens should be willing to re-invest in the team regardless. If the McNair's have to have the renovations done right now then let them pay for them.
The plumbing is fine and since adult kickball is coming to NRG lets takeout a short term loan to fix (Not replace) the scoreboard and use the money made off of the adult kickball to pay for fixing the video boards. No to the full renovation.
NRG/County isn’t going to make that much money directly off the World Cup. And the expectations are that the video boards will need to be replaced imminently regardless of other projects. If you read the county’s own report, there are serious issues with infrastructure beyond the video boards. Its their assessment of the cost (and their admittance as to lack of funds) that is driving this consideration whether or not it makes more sense to renovate vs. piece-meal repair. Also NRG will be one of the older/outdated NFL stadiums after this next round of building finishes. Still “serviceable”, but they’ll be out of consideration for bigger events if standing pat (will have the worst of the stadiums in their division… and will basically be with Denver, Baltimore, and Cincy with the oldest ‘newer’ stadiums of the conference, while KC is also not too far behind of looking to build a new one despite just renovating Arrowhead).
There's a lot of stupidity in this last 2+ pages of this thread. Please, yall carry on and amuse people.
I love NRG, it's a great stadium but I also see the need to "UPDATE" every decade and were 20+ years in so I get it BUT the McNair's are millionaires, and they have ZERO debt, they are the owners and they reap the benefits of what they put on the field, if it's a good product we will support you and make you more money, if you suck we will not support you to that degree. Build what you want, where you want, and we will follow you, just don't ask the fans to pay for the stadium and don't impose some crazy tax on the people who come to Houston to pay for it via ridiculous taxes when they rent a car.............this should be 100% financed through the McNair's. Put a good product on the field and we will run through a brick wall for you, put a crappy product on the field and you will reap what you produce.................bet on yourself Cal, I love the Texans, but my 401K is now a 201K, I can't afford to buy a car and I am expecting to overpay for Avocado's and Nike sneakers.......I can't pay for CJ on top of that, but I will support you as best I can as will the 2.3 million Houstonians
Because as part of the creation of the Harris county sports authority, that was voted on by Houstonians, was that the county would be in charge of upkeep/maintenance of these new stadiums through the proposed financing mechanisms approved at the time. Now what was not known was how the Texans were able to negotiate the exponential increase in some ancillary revenue related to their games.... and they've been using that profit to pay the "rent". Its a sweet deal if you're a team owner in Houston... which is why the team would be happy to continue the current arrangement as tenants (or at least they're not responsible for the upkeep/maintenance that was required by the county).... but they'd also likely make more money being the sole owner of a facility (along with getting more ancillary profit from other events there), and they'll explore that option if NRG is incapable of being maintained or upgraded.
Just like Htown ushered in the retractable roof era for NFL stadiums, I wonder what new feature the next Texans stadium will have that'll start a trend
Now that they are perfecting the artificial turf so growing grass is no longer a consideration, retractable roofs will be a thing of the past.
They already are. Houston/Dallas never open it (have turf). Arizona has a retractable field that grows outside every day of the week (except gameday), so they can do whatever they want. Indy’s stadium was built as much to host final four’s as it was football… I guess that would be one example of where they get the full utilization of the roof (open during the early months, closed for the rest when it gets cold). Every new stadium now has the glass roof dome ceiling… minus Buffalo’s because they feel elements are who they are.
I still can't believe Buffalo is spending 2 billion dollars on a stadium with no roof. That is a blatant ripoff of another stadium that already exists. I say this as someone who lives in the same elements as Buffalo, when it comes to weather.
I'm pissed that I am paying for it. Don't even like the Bills. But I live in NY wonder if I can opt out if I tell Them I'm a Texans fan.
I love the Texans, but I am philosophically opposed to spending tax money to subsidize businesses. I know the arguments for it, I just don't buy them.
I live just outside of New York. Don't have to pay for it, but I'm a lot closer to the stadium than you are. Likely won't go to a game after November though.
I know this isn't the forum, but isn't every business on some level subsidized/incentivized by grants/tax incentives/policies/underlying infrastructure. I understand setting a limit, but a blanket statement seems odd to me.
