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Re: You are somewhere else

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Originally Posted by Natchez
Ahhhhh, I see defending Houston will be a 24-hour-a-day job

Joseph, that goes without saying after this quote last year.

Also,

*The world's largest rodeo where 1.9 million people attended this year and over $100 million went to scholarships, graduate assistantships, endowments and grants.
*The Superbowl
*NFL, NBA, & MLB teams
*Brand new METRO Rail with tens of thousands of hotel rooms within a block of the rail
*Shell Houston Open PGA Tournament with over $5.2 million in charitable donations which ranks 2nd on the PGA tour behind our friends hosting the Byron Nelson in Dallas
*4th largest city in America

Yes, Joseph, we have proven that we can handle and entertain people; and yes, FIRST does listen to all of your comments made on CD; and yes, your comments do have a reflection on your team.

Again, congratulations Atlanta for putting on a great Championship,
Lucien
I understand your defending your city. I'll even defend my original home town of Kokomo, Indiana, but the fact remains that the Houston event had many more "issues" than Atlanta or Epcot. The one thing that we can all appreciate is that things were put together quickly enough that we were able to have a championship in 2003. Even having the event was probably in question for a while.

One thing that kind of bothered me is that the historic Astrodome was conspicuously ill-maintained and appeared to be waiting to be demolished. I consider it historic because, to my knowledge, it was the first indoor stadium of its type built for playing football. Having been to Europe several times, I've seen a lot of the "preserve and restore" mentality of, say, Italy and I like it in contrast to the "throw it all away" mentality of America. I guess that is off-topic, and to my knowledge, the Astrodome is still there. It just looked like it might not be for long.
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