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It's been said that Victory only has 700 residents. It was suppose to have almost 7,000 by this time.

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

It was going to be an ugly building anyway. No great loss. In fact, I don't think it makes much difference if it ever gets built or not. Victory Fort will still be boring and sterile. IMO.

I have serious doubts that Victory will ever be built out according to the original plans. It doesn't look very good when they have to stop building a structure before it's even finished or scale something down while it's still under construction. Too bad.

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.

Try this one on for size...

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=...RFqqcJvTvb&

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

What's even funnier to me is that the cowchicks fans (at least here) are reacting in a completely different fashion than would a Texans fan. Texans fans would be cursing the team, and screaming "off with their heads" had we lost in that fashion. We most certainly wouldn't be reacting like this, in fact, I can't think of any city that would react in this way. LONG LIVE THE COWBALLS!

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.

^^That will change in a few years when DC-Baltimore become an MSA (are a CSA now) and the Bay Area becomes a MSA (CSA now, too). Everyone will move down two notches.

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.

As for layovers in Killeen, there is no reason that this has to occur. It is likely that each large city, Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, will have TWO trains leaving the station, going to the other two cities. Using Houston as an example, one train will leave the station bound for Dallas. Another will leave bound for SA. The Dallas train will turn north at Killeen. The SA train will turn south at Killeen. Therefore, there is no need to change trains at Killeen to head to Dallas, Austin or SA. You just need to board the correct train in Houston.

I still see the advantage of the T running to Austin instead of Killeen. I think the reasoning is merely cost. I could see justifying an Austin leg with a future expansion between Waco and B-CS to shorten the Houston-Dallas leg as well.

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?

My friend who is a golfer was telling me about the golf scene in Houston near the Texas Medical Center. He said there was a lot of golf ranges and stores on the South Main Strip.

I recall him telling me about A-1 Golf Driving Range located at 7801 South Main Street.

Does anyone have information regarding the A-1 Golf Driving Range? Experiences? Tell me your stories! 

By the way, is there any photos of this place? Postcards or newspaper listings?

As a Longhorn fan, I must say A&M just came out and made plays today. So did Texas, for the most part, but A&M just made more of them and never let up.

At least it's a real rivalry again.

Our young team will be one year older next year though, so I say, watch out.

Enjoy

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!

Please. Emmit Smith wasn't even that good. You could run an SUV through that offensive line he had. I would take Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, and a few others over Emmit. I really don't know what you see in Reggie that has him being one of the NFL's top ten leading rushers of all time. Deuce McAllister has been down since the third game, and Reggie has produced squat as a running back. I'm not saying Ron Dayne is good either (because he isn't), but Reggie is just an average running back. Adrian Peterson in half of a season has more rushing yards than Bush has had since last year.

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.

That's because the any team that the Cowboys have a really tough time beating, they don't see them as a rival, they see them as somebody they DON'T want to play, thus they try to forget about them, i.e. The Houston Texans.

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.

I'm glad for Dallas but all that overbuilding is just sucking life from downtown as we speak.

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.

There really aren't too many Cowboys fans in Houston. Probably just a little more than the Texan fans in DFW. And please, anytime I talk Texans with Cowboy fans, they start rabbling on about how we suck.

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.

It was only the biggest and most hyped game of the season, so it is no surprise that it is the highest rated. Houston has a large contingent of Cowboys fans. It has an even larger contingent of Cowboys haters (myself included). It is only natural that we would watch the game most likely to produce a loss by the Cowboys.

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.

Please tell me they are not going to name the metro rail in Fort Worth the FART!

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?

Well, for Boston, it is called the "New England Patriots" and Phoenix "Arizona Cardinals".

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.

Detroit Lions played in Pontiac for >25 years.... New York's not even in the same state! And no one cares....

Yeah..thanks for proving my point.

Is Dallas the only team in the NFL that doesnt play in it city limits?I guess what I'm trying to ask is,are the giants and jets named for the state of new york?

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.

Or all of North Texas? The Dallas-Fort Worth area really feels like a big region. If you are from Fort Worth, you are from Fort Worth. Arlington, the same. Plano, the same. In Houston, if you are from Baytown or League City, you would most likely say "Houston". It feels more city.

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.

I have seen those 10 PM Newscasts, and no one is outside. I'll even check the webcam and watch it online to see.

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.

Jerry Sloan has never really done anything special in the playoffs. JVG hasn't done much either, I think JVG ios more of an honorable coach especially in the eyes of his players. Hopefully he take sthe Utah Series and hopefully they still another series.

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.

LA's skyline ain't all that .... Houston's better. Chi-town is bigger and all, but H-town is on the move. Give us 20 yrs.

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.