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Old 04-12-2010, 10:03 PM   #16
Wolfpack
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Jerry's lured the Cotton Bowl to his stadium, but I think the Cotton Bowl stadium owners (different from the bowl game owners) successfully persuaded Texas and Oklahoma to keep playing at their site for the next umpteen years a couple of years ago, thus the renovations. As long as UT-OU keeps being played there with the state fair going on, the stadium's not going to go away anytime soon.

Edit to add: a quick Wiki check indicates that the Cotton Bowl game owners opted to go to Jerry World as a hopeful lure to get the BCS to add them as a fifth game, but with the renewal of TV contracts that kept the current setup, that went by the boards. Also, UT-OU is currently planned to be at the Cotton Bowl stadium until 2015. Conveniently, since the City of Dallas no longer needs to subsidize the Cotton Bowl game now that it's in Arlington, they instead threw that money at Texas and Oklahoma to keep them in Dallas.

Last edited by Wolfpack : 04-12-2010 at 10:10 PM.
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