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If Ross Perot really thought he was going to have 7,000 residents by this time, than this is his reality check, I bet.

I think it will get built out. It just won't be built out in the time they would have liked. This is basically a reality check for Ross Perot and Dallas. You cannot build a successful and vibrant neighborhood overnight and it would be idiotic to try to do so and not thing about hitting a roadblock somewhere. I don't know of any great neighborhood in the country that built a neighborhood in a very short amount of time. It's going to take time.

Yeah I seen that. That was posted on the Zone. Just about everyone laughed.

That's just on here. But on the Zone and on CF, most Cowboy fans are not taking it well but have moved on and talked about what we need to do next year to improve. As a Cowboy fan, I never bring up the 5 rings thing or history unless I really really have to. But that subject did not nered to be brought up in this discussion. Hopefully we improve on the draft with our two draft picks. Or, we made trade our two draft picks to Miami for their number 1 pick. We have alot of cap room to work on and we need another receiver. Glenn is done. I like that we may get Fitzgerald or Roy Williams.

The time the DC-Baltimore area becomes a MSA is the same time that Austin-San Antonio will become a MSA. Meaning, it will be a very very long time before that happens. DC-Baltimore will have to live with being a CSA for now.

Great discussion. Glad to see this is on the board in Texas. The only high speed rail in the US is the Acela and it's pretty nice. I understand the advantages to a bigger city as well. But I think they probably do not want to put too many stations in Austin. Maybe Killeen is an option because of it's growth as well as Ft. Hood. The Killeen-Temple metro is already bigger than Waco and the city of Killeen will surpass Waco as the largest city in Central Texas outside Austin in the next 10-20 years and leave Waco in the dust at that. Not to mention that Killeen is growing south to meet Austin's growth to the north. Killeen and Georgetown is growing closer and closer together. With that said, I know many on this board and other boards have complained that Texas is probably the only state in the US that does not have an expressway connecting it's largest city to it's state capital. I think this rail would shut that down and work better than having an expressway connecting the two cities. I wonder though, if this is built, and it shows the federal government that Texans will use the HSR, how could they expand? Would they build the Houston-Dallas line or will they go a different route and expand from Dallas-Tyler and Houston-Beaumont?

It won't matter if Akina is still the DC and Davis is still the OC. I mean, we have wanted Davis gone for quite a while now but Akina takes the cake. He has to go NOW!

Name the few others. I can understand Walter Payton and maybe Barry Sanders and I say maybe because Barry did not perform well under pressure especially in the playoffs and he did have pro bowler Lomis Brown on the offensive line. If other running backs could run through that offensive line, how come all the other backs couldn't? Barry was a better runner than Emmitt. Emmitt was the better rusher and the more complete back. Blocking, Catching the ball out of the backfield, and running is what made Emmitt great. If Emmitt wasn't that good, why did the Cowboys start 1993 0-2 and once he came back, the Cowboys proceeded to go 12-2 on the way to winning it's 2nd straight superbowl.

No that's not it. We have a losing record against the Niners all time but we see them as one of our chief rivals. It comes down to history and there is none between the Cowboys and Texans and there probably never will be one unless the two teams meet in the superbowl.

True. But once that new park is built over Woodall Rogers freeway, it will connect Uptown to Downtown. But Downtown is being revitilized itself. They are just getting started.

Which is why I exactly said outside of the Houston area. If you do go outside of the Houston area, you will rarely here that from Cowboy fans. I just find it funny how Texan fans have the Cowboys as one of there top rivals yet Cowboy fans do not think of the Texans as rivals at all. In fact, the Texans have the Cowboys as one of their top 5 rivalries while the Cowboys have the Texans outside of the top 10. This isn't a diss to the Texans because I actually root for them when they aren't playing the Cowboys. But it's still weird yet funny to see the hatred be so one-sided.

lol. That's funny though. Most Dallas fans outside of the Houston area or even Texas do not know that Texan fans hate the Cowboys so much. I'm a huge Cowboy fan and I don't hate the Texans because there really is no need. I and many other Cowboy fans I know root for the Texans because they are from Texas. Wonder why the hatred is so one-sided. Is it because of the amount of fans in Houston that are Cowboy fans.

LOL. Great post. It would be the best name for any transit authority in the nation.

I hope it's not a Mandarin. Dallas is getting one. Instead, Houston could/would be the first city in the south and the fourth in the US to get a Peninsula Hotel. Here's the website. http://www.peninsula.com/ I think this would do great in Houston.

They are in Chicago as well as DC. This was being discussed on other forums that Aldi's I believe is the parent company of Trader Joe's. This will help make a way for Texas to receive Trader Joe's.

From what I'm reading on the House Of Hoops thing. I really like the sound of it. It will be a great addition to HP. Also, Journey Shoes will be great. I like Timbs (I know many southerners don't but eh lol) and they sell them. What is Old Havana? They sell cigars or something?

The New England Patriots was once known as the Boston Patriots and the Arizona Cardinals were once known as the Phoenix Cardinals. The Cowboys will never change it's name to the Texas Cowboys in such a move. Sorry. Don't fix a great franchise like the Cowboys if it doesn't need to be fixed. Yeah..thanks for proving my point.

Nope. So the following cities do not have an NFL team. New York Boston Miami Dallas Washington D.C. Phoenix I pretty much think that every city that played it's first game played in that city, though. Well every team that started with the name of the city because the Redskins were once in Boston. Seriously, it's still the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex with Dallas being the primary city of a region of 6 million. I don't see the big deal about it not being in the city limits. It would be nice but it's not. Nothing to demean the city of Dallas about. And no way will they ever change the name of one of the greatest professional franchises in American sports history.

Fort Worth yeah. But that's it. Most outside of Texas does not know where Plano is. The rest associates themselves as just Dallas. Especially the surburbs in Dallas county as well as Plano and the rest of Collin County. And I would say Arlington as well. If you mentioned Arlington to people outside of Texas. They'd think you are referring to the city in Virginia. Not the one in Texas.

This webcam thing is killing me. I wonder how many people you will see walking around an area that is still heavily under construction which Victory is. They are building nice residential units as well as entertainment areas in Old Town Alexandria. A place that is just as urban if not more urban than anything in Texas and there are some areas finished. Yet, I see NOONE walking around. The reason....it's still heavily under construction. I wonder how many people in Chicago walked around Millennium park in Grant Park while it was still under construction. I bet you it was in the zero's. If you want to judge how a place is on the webcam, that's fine. But if you're expecting to see a multitude of people on a webcam in an area still under contstruction, don't be surprised if you don't see any. Oh and this is coming from someone not from Dallas.

If I had the 80 dollars to go and see Erykah Badu and I lived in Dallas, I would definetly go and see her. She has made great music the past 10 years especially her time from 97-2001.

It tied it? I thought that buiding in Dubai was suppose to be over 2600 feet.

You're right. He's only been to two back to back NBA Finals. He would be a two-time NBA champion if it wasn't for a certain Jordan beasting in Chicago.

Add a 0 on there and you may have a point. It's going to take alotttt longer than 20 years for any city not named New York to catch up to Chicago in the United States.

I think Houston could and should be part of the rotation. New Orleans, Glendale, and Miami will be in the rotation regardless after 2012. If San Diego gets a new stadium, add them to the mix as well. Then it will be between Tampa, Houston, Arlington, and Atlanta. I bet Tampa and Houston are chosen as the last two to rotate between cities. I honestly believe they are done with Atlanta with what happened in 2000 and the same thing can easily happen in Dallas. What will help Dallas is if Arlington decides to get on the light rail bandwagon themselves. I don't see that happening, though.