Professional Sports Teams and Venues in Dallas/Forth Worth
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- Ticket sales (including luxury suites)
- Fees for broadcasting and televising games
- Concession sales
- Corporate naming rights
- Parking fees
- Renting the stadium out to other activities (assuming a team at least partially owns the stadium).
Many local governments share the cost of sports stadiums with hopes of obtaining the “spillover benefits” of new job creation, increased tourism and increased tax revenues from sales generated by sports fans. These benefits, however, according to a report by UrbanFutures.org (sponsored by the Reason Foundation) have not lived up to all their expectations. This report states that:
“Three decades of research, however, has failed to find identifiable benefits for cities, their downtowns, or their neighborhoods.”
There are, however, social benefits. A survey taken in relation to the above mentioned report found that
residents of a city with a professional sports team “enjoy substantial social spillover benefits” from the presence of the team(s). These benefits are in the areas of intangibles such as community pride, national recognition, and the importance of sports as an attraction to living in the city.
The Dallas/Forth Worth Metroplex is home to four professional sports teams, one for every major American team sport and, there is no doubt about it, DFW fans love and support their teams through good seasons and bad.
The Dallas Cowboys
The National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys are currently home-based in the near-by Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas but in 2009 they will abandon Irving’s Texas Stadium for a move to a new multi-million dollar, retractable-roof stadium in the Fort Worth suburb of Arlington Texas – just a ‘stones throw’ from the Texas Rangers’ home, Ameriquest Field. Obtaining the land for the new stadium has stirred up a lot of controversy but everything seems to have settled down as the project is now under way.
Dallas Cowboy Links:
The National Football League home page
The Dallas Cowboys are in the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC), here’s their home page.
Read all about Texas Stadium HERE
And here is the Texas Stadium Seat Map with Single Game Pricing
It’s a Fact! Texas Stadium, the Cowboy’s current home, has a hole in it’s roof (by design).
Ask a Dallas Cowboy fan ‘why the hole?’ and you’ll be told it’s there so God can watch his favorite team play!
The Dallas Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks finished their 2004-2005 season with a 58-24 record, the second best finish in franchise history. They made it to the semifinals in 2005 by overpowering the Houston Rockets but were themselves overpowered in the semis by the Phoenix Suns. As for the 2005-2006 season . . . well, it’s in progress.
The Dallas Mavericks are in the Midwest Division of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and call Dallas’ American Airlines Center home.
Dallas Mavericks Links:
The National Basketball Association Home Page
The Home page of the Dallas Mavericks
American Airlines Center Home Page
The American Airlines Center, Mavericks Seating Chart with individual game pricing.
Its a Fact! On July 27, 2001, the date of the ribbon cutting ceremony for the American Airlines Center, the facility made the Guinness Book of Records as the “largest ribbon-cutting ceremony ever held.”
The Texas Rangers
The first Texas Rangers game was played in California on April 15, 1972 against the California Angels – they lost that one but beat the Angels the next day for their first victory. Their first manager was hall-of-famer Ted Williams.
The Rangers have made it to the MLB Playoffs three times but have never made it to a World Series. That may seem like a pretty dismal record but they have a dedicated following – they manage to pack in over 30,000 fans for every home appearance.
Texas Ranger Links:
The Major League Baseball Home Page
The home of the
Texas Rangers
Ameriquest Field Seat Map and Pricing
Its a Fact! Ameriquest Field in Arlington, Texas is more than just a ballpark! The $191 million complex also houses a baseball museum, an office building, a youth baseball park and a 12-acre lake.
The Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars were formerly the Minnesota North Stars. They departed Minnesota for Texas in the early ’90s and found a new home in Dallas. They first played at Dallas’ Reunion Arena but then moved to the American Airlines Center. The Stars play in the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Western Pacific Division.
Dallas Stars Links:
The National Hockey League home page
American Airlines Center Seating Chart and Single Game Pricing
Its a Fact! The American Airlines Center is home to the Dallas Mavericks (NBA), the
Dallas Stars (NHL) and the Dallas Desperados (Arena Football League). The first sporting event played at the American Airlines Center, when it opened in 2001, was a Continental Indoor Soccer League game with the Dallas Sidekicks.
