Mark Grody
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In the meantime, let's listen to the rest of what Bill Cunningham, the guy who's actually in the room and in charge of some stuff, had to say.
These are grown men with whole ass jobs.
It's not naivete.
Have you ever met a naive grown man?
Because I have.
I've met a lot of entitled ones.
Well, and that's a part of this, is that...
You have all these avenues.
You have three possible sites where you can play.
You have Soldier Field, you have Arlington Heights, and you have Indiana.
You can pick them, but it's just a matter of what you're going to get at either one.
708 is asking me, Layla, how did Jerry Jones handle moving from Irving to Arlington?
Number one, he approached the city of Dallas with the possibility of building in Fair Park, where the site of the old Cotton Bowl is, where they play Texas and Oklahoma.
So downtown site.
It was the mayor who decided not to even hear it, not to put it to a ballot where people can vote on it, which is usually the best way to get the accurate representation of whether or not taxpayers want it.
So then Arlington, the city, decided to give him a deal on not only hotel tax, but rental car tax that would be able to pay for Cowboys Stadium.
There was also eminent domain declared at a couple of housing sites that were adjacent to the ballpark in Arlington at the time, which is now Globe Life Field, the same site.
And that's how Jerry Jones got it done.