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PrintableSwank Super Bowl Venue, But Sky-High Ticket PricesJerry Jones spared no expense when he built Cowboys Stadium. Now, North Texas football fans, Cheeseheads and thousands from the Steeler Nation are sparing no expense to see the Super Bowl in the NFL's grandest venue. You won't be able to step foot inside the stadium for less than $1,750 -- and that doesn't even get you a reserved seat, just a standing-room only ticket. Even Party Plaza tickets aren't coming cheap. Fans who buy Party Plaza passes will be on Cowboys Stadium premises to soak up the atmosphere, but they'll watch the game outside on a big screen. The NFL priced those tickets at $200, but many ticket brokers websites are selling them for upward of $300. If you don't want to stand up for hours on end, a reserved seat in the nosebleed section in a corner of the stadium will cost you $2,500. If you choose the upper-level seats, you'll still have a great view ... of the world's largest HD screen, which is 180 feet long and 72 feet tall. Lower level seats cost upward of $8,000, and if money is no object, you can buy a suite for more than $135,000. "There's a lot of demand, and it's only going to continue to increase as the game gets closer," said Hank Wendorf, owner of Ticketsource.com. But the NFL, consumer watchdogs, ticket brokers and police are already warning people about ticket scammers. "There is no doubt there will be counterfeit tickets for the this game in and around North Texas because of the value," Wendorf said. The NFL has made the coveted Super Bowl tickets some of the hardest to replicate. They have several security features that scammers will find difficult to recreate. Legitimate Super Bowl tickets will have heat-sensitive ink on the back, a high-gloss varnish and a raised, embossed Super Bowl logo in high-quality silver foil. "There's a watermark on the back of the ticket with the NFL logo, and there's a hologram on the back of the ticket with the Super Bowl logo," Wendorf said. The Better Business Bureau of Dallas suggests fans buy from a brick-and-mortar business in person or a from a trusted website and use a protected credit card so there is a paper trail. The BBB said sellers wanting buyers to pay with a wire transfer is a red flag. "Sometimes you'll see an online ad that says, 'Wire the money. Go down to Western Union right away,' and that's a favorite method for scammers to use," BBB spokeswoman Jeanette Kopko said. The bottom line is, there are no "cheap seats" for the Super Bowl. "Knowing what the prices are -- usually if you have the opportunity to buy tickets, and it seems too good to be true, it probably is," Wendorf said. | |
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even the Red Bird Mall is in on the action! Which is a good place as it is about empty anyway. "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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Good for them. Why Red(black)bird mall gon' always be Redbird??? | |
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"Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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At least 15 years! I worked there in the 90s but I know I haven't been there in over a decade.
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All I know is one day I walk in and i see frcking cactus on the wall... I swear I did not know for at least a year that they changed the name. "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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DFW Should Be Sporting Cheeseheads
When our city is invaded next week for what was supposed to be the Cowboys' big party, area fans with no ties to either team should welcome the Cheeseheads and shun the black and gold Dwight K. Schrute style. I hate to be hateful, but there are many reasons why we should be pulling for the good ol' midwestern folks from Wisconsin. First off, if the Steelers win they will take a two-ring lead on the Cowboys with Super Bowl wins. Right now, Pittsburgh has the most in NFL history with six Super Bowl rings. The Cowboys have five, along with the 49ers. This appearance for the Steelers ties them with the Cowboys for the most appearances in the Super Bowl in league history with No. 8. If I have to hear one more person say the Steelers are "America's Team", I just might snap. Also, there are a few local kids coming back home to play in the big game as three Packers were DFW high school football stars. Charlie Peprah, a Plano East grad, was predominantly a running back for the Panthers before going off to Alabama and becoming a safety. He's now a starter for the Packers. Dimitri Nance, a Haka-crazy Euless Trinity grad, is now a rookie for the Packers after a solid career at Arizona State. He's down on the running back depth chart, but he's on the roster, nonetheless. Finally, my boy Graham Harrell, who was the brightest star in high school of the group, setting several Texas prep passing records while playing for his father, Sam, at Ennis. Harrell went on to Texas Tech to crush the dreams of Longhorns everywhere and set national passing records. Now, he's the third-string QB for the Packers, which as we saw last week with the Bears, is a relevant position. So I call on you, DFW, to root for your hometown heroes and against those terrible towels and the evil Steelers. | |
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Hmmm, Imma go with this guy...
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Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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Yeah, me too.
The Steelers were actually my fave team as a kid. I liked their colors. | |
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Unemployment rises in 20 states, falls in 15http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...employment
The Labor Department says the unemployment rate rose in 20 states and fell in 15. It was unchanged in another 15 states. That's nearly the same as in November, when the rate rose in 21 states, fell in 15 and was the same in 14.
Texas and South Carolina reported the biggest net job gains in December. Texas added 20,000 positions; South Carolina gained 9,000.
Nevada, still suffering from a massive housing bust, posted the nation's highest unemployment rate at 14.5 percent. That's up from 14.3 percent the previous month and the state's highest on records dating from 1976. California reported the second-highest rate, at 12.5 percent, followed by Florida at 12 percent. | |
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it may babout to lose that many teachers. "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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Yeah, I've heard some communities are considering that. But I think it depends where you live. DISD is in trouble. | |
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Here's an interesting cover story about Troy in our local magazine. Provides some insight into his personality and why his wife would want out.
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i saw that issue at the central market he looked kind of creepy! "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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Oh, shit! An office tower in downtown Dallas was evacuated and the bomb squad is on their way to check out a suspicious Fedex package. | |
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http://www.nbcdfw.com/new...22939.html
One Main Place in Dallas is being evacuated after a bomb-sniffing dog hit on a package.
The on-site dog smelled something suspicious in a FedEx package and notified his handlers.
Radio report said: workers were told they could go to lunch (it is 10:40 in dallas). [Edited 1/27/11 8:39am] "Keep on shilling for Big Pharm!" |
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Arlington Mayor: the Super Bowl is in Arlington, Not DallasThe Mayor of Arlington would like to remind you that when Super Bowl XLV will be played next Sunday, it will be played in Arlington. Not Dallas. Mayor Rober Cluck has grown, in his words, frustrated over the many slightly-wrong folks who have referred to Super Bowl XLV as being played in Dallas. Of course, it won’t, actually, but the sprawling nature of the Dallas area, and the fact that the team who call the stadium home are known as being from “Dallas,” some confusion is inevitable. All the same, Mayor Cluck wants to be clear. “Does it make me angry? No. It’s just something we have to overcome,” Cluck told FOX 4 recently. “I’m frustrated. Sure. That’s the word.” Drew Pearson is on Cluck’s side. He argues that, what with the city anteing up when the team needed a new home, Arlington deserves to have its name attached to the Super Bowl. “It’s a big deal for the city of Arlington,” Pearson said.” Arlington is a growing community. And they’ve done some things and taken tremendous initiatives. Including when the city of Dallas dropped the ball, they were right there to catch that ball and bring Cowboys Stadium to their city.”
That fucking Laura Miller (former Dallas mayor who di'int wanna give up the $ for the new stadium) needs to be skinned alive for losing the stadium. [Edited 1/27/11 13:05pm] | |
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Big Ben Wants to "Win It For Flozell"
A year after being released by the Dallas Cowboys, offensive tackle Flozell Adams will make a triumphant return to Cowboys Stadium as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the AFC representative in Super Bowl XLV. Adams has spent the past week deflecting questions about the significance of the game being in Dallas. Whether he’ll admit it or not, one would assume that there was some significance there. Adams spent 12 seasons at left tackle for the Cowboys and, at the time of his release, was the most tenured member of the team. However, when asked the question, Adams answered, per ESPN, thusly: "I'm a Steeler. So that's how we roll." The poetry in Adams’ return to Dallas isn’t lost on everyone in the Steelers’ locker room, however. Quarterback and sorority girl enthusiast Ben Roethlisberger told reporters recently that he wanted to win for Flozell as much as he did for himself--if not more. "To go back to Dallas and he's never had a chance to go to a Super Bowl,” Roethlisberger said. “To get to play in one, and it's in Dallas, I want to win one for him as much as I do myself.”
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Lawd, why did Drew Pearson fall while carrying the Vince Lombardi trophy into Dallas Convention Ctr yesterday.
Drew Pearson's Hail Mary Part IINBCDFW.com Drew Pearson saved the Lombardi Trophy when a sudden jolt from the escalator forced him to fall.
Watch it here
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Flozell has been money for Pittsburgh this year playing at RT. True he can no longer handle the speed rushers especially on the left side where he was playing for Dallas last season but he is still a crushing run blocker. I like this article because i can see the sarcasm coming from a Dallas writer. That city's worst nightmare which has already happened in part by Pittsburgh being there but if the Steelers win it, it will make a lot of Cowboy fans eat crow. Don't laugh at my funk
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Calling All Strippers: Dallas Running Low for Super Bowl WeekUp until now, everything having to do with Super Bowl XLV has been fun and games. We're about to learn just how well we all deal with a crisis, however. The strip clubs in Dallas, Arlington and elsewhere in the area are suffering from a serious shortage in dancers to fill the demand they expect to have when football fans flood the area for the big game. John Walsh, proprietor of Showtime Cabaret, told TMZ that he normally has 50 girls working in his club. He wants to hire an additional 120-150 for next week, though, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Walsh believes that the 60 clubs around the area will need to hire 10,000 additional strippers to satisfy the urges trucked into town from all corners of our country. Maybe we can work out some kind of trade agreement with Charlie Sheen now that he's out of action for a little while? Arlington expects to have in the neighborhood of 300,000 visitors descending on the area for Super Bowl week. If this strip club Sputnik moment is a success and 10,000 dancers do start plying their trade in the vicinity, we will be witness to a truly magnificent demographic moment. Assuming that not all of those 300,000 people are going to partake in the entertainment provided by Walsh and his brethren, as well as the existing number of strippers in town, we are going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of a 23:1 customer-to-stripper ratio. That's astounding. It really says something about America that we can get that kind of ratio for our strip clubs but that we struggle to have elementary school classrooms that can approach that kind of student-teacher ratio. Perhaps that's the wrong take on things. Maybe all of the dollars trickling down from g-strings will be the thing to jolt our economy back to life, to say nothing of the boom times that will come to the spray tan industry and those who water down drinks sold at the clubs in question. The nation's unemployment number will freefall and, thanks to the brave strippers, it will be morning in America once again. | |
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And now for a lil history . . .
Texas Marks 150-year Anniversary of Secession Sam Houston tried to tell Texans secession and joining the Confederacy wouldn't work. He warned of "rivers of blood," a generation left dead or crippled by war and ultimate defeat of the South at the hands of the industrial superior North. "After enduring civil war for years, will there be any promise of a better state of things than we now enjoy?" Houston wrote in a November 1860 letter preserved among documents at his namesake museum in Huntsville. A secession convention that assembled in Austin 150 years ago this weekend rejected the Texas governor's advice. "I think everybody pretty much knew what was coming," Mac Woodward, curator of collections at the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, says. Stoked by unfounded fears and erroneous reports of slave rebellions that became known as the Texas Troubles, Texans in February 1861 approved secession by a 3-1 margin, sending the state barreling toward the Civil War on the losing side and costing Texas hero Houston his job. The only Unionist governor in the South would be removed when he refused to swear allegiance to the Confederacy. Texas became the seventh state to secede and the last to join the Confederate States of America before the war officially started that April. The Texas defection came despite the blocking efforts of Houston, easily the state's most prominent national figure at the time. He was a hero as leader of the Texas forces that won independence from Mexico in 1836, a two-time president of the Republic of Texas, a state legislator, congressman and senator. Before arriving in Texas, he'd also been governor of Tennessee. "Here you have a governor, Sam Houston, who continues to say the Union must be preserved, that Texas is better off in the Union," said T. Michael Parrish, a Baylor University history professor whose specialties include Texas and Southern history and the Civil War. "He had always said that from time of the Texas Revolution and founding of the Republic, he said ultimately the goal was to be annexed as a state. He had to take a courageous stand." Houston suggested U.S. troops should consider driving the French out of Mexico and not fight each other, hoping to deflect sentiment for an American civil war. "The summer and fall of 1860 he stumped the state and uttered phrases: 'Rivers of blood will flow, the South can't win, if we do secede we should become our own nation,"' Parrish said. Houston also spoke out against Jefferson Davis, the provisional president of the Confederacy and a man he knew from their days together in the U.S. Senate. "They did not like one another, they did not trust one another," Parrish said. "Sam Houston predicted Jefferson Davis would lead the Confederacy to disaster." Houston refused to call the Legislature into special session to consider secession, but backers of the idea circumvented him, picked delegates for a secession convention and assembled Jan. 28 in the House chamber of the Texas Capitol. According to accounts from the Texas State Library, Gov. Houston, working below them in his first-floor office, described them as "the mob upstairs." On Feb. 1, delegates voted 166-8 to secede. "That's not the people," Woodward said of Houston's stance that a public vote was needed. "He goes back to that Jacksonian populist belief: The people need to speak. "My sense is he was trying to hopefully delay the secession by staging this number of roadblocks, or goals he thought needed to be done." When a Committee of Safety was authorized by the convention to seize all federal property in the state, Houston summoned Texas Rangers loyal to him to intercept a secessionist posse headed to a federal arsenal in San Antonio. But the commander of U.S. forces in Texas, Gen. David Twiggs, on Feb. 16 surrendered all military property in the state, and a week later the public vote approved the secession convention actions. "Ultimately, the Legislature said: 'Well, we'll just fix you,"' Woodward said. "'We're going to have all the state officials pledge their allegiance to the Confederacy.' That was what he would not do, the one thing he would not do." On March 15, the governor's office was declared vacant and Lt. Gov. Edward Clark was sworn in as governor of the Confederate state of Texas. "The momentum got beyond him," Woodward said. Ironically, Houston eventually supported Texas' move to the Confederacy. "When the people voted, he had to live with that," Woodward said. "That was his belief." Texas, then at the western edge of the nation, avoided much of the devastating battle carnage endured elsewhere in the South. Galveston was blockaded, Corpus Christi was hit by naval cannon, Sabine Pass was the scene of two confrontations, and the last battle of the war occurred in May 1865 at Palmito Ranch near Brownsville, more than a month after Robert E. Lee's surrender. Records are spotty, but somewhere between 70,000 and 90,000 Texans, more than 10 percent of the state's population, served in the Confederate army. Among them was Houston's son, Sam Jr., who was wounded badly at Shiloh and wound up in a prisoner of war camp in Illinois. The Houston museum has a bible he carried, featuring a bullet hole that travels halfway through the book. Documents suggest Houston visited Union POWs held at the state prison in Huntsville, where he eventually returned after his ouster from the governor's office and where he died at age 70 in July 1863. "The thing you always wonder is how much he suffered, how difficult it was for him personally as the Civil War progressed," Woodward said. "His whole life was built on Texas being part of the union and preserving the union." | |
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As if on cue, the weather this week will positively suck after having gorgeous, mid-70s for the last few days
Frigid Temperatures To Welcome Super Bowl VisitorsSnow? Sleet? Airport and road crews are ready to deal with bad weather during Super Bowl week. A massive, bright yellow snowplow that looks like something you might see on the streets of Green Bay, Wis., is parked on an airport tarmac in Arlington. "We get to use it all week in case we have bad weather," said Bob Porter, manager of the Arlington Municipal Airport. A Wisconsin company lent the $380,000 snowplow to the Arlington airport to clear ice and snow from taxiways and runways. The airport expects more than 100 aircraft during Super Bowl week. The National Weather Service said freezing rain is possible Tuesday, and colder than normal temperatures are expected throughout the week. The overnight low Wednesday could be around 20. "Oh yeah, we're a little bit worried about Tuesday," Porter said. "With temperatures and rain in the forecast, hopefully we won't have to crank it up, but it's here if we need it." If needed, up to 70 extra sand trucks will be available throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area for bad winter weather, regional planner said. "We have a plan ready for a worst-case scenario event or events, plural," said Texas Department of Transportation spokeswoman Cynthia Northrop-White. TxDOT got a practice run during last year's NBA All-Star weekend, when record crowds collided with record snowfall. For the Super Bowl, TxDOT has sand trucks ready to roll in from as far away as San Antonio, Amarillo and Brownwood. "There's a 48-hour window that we are looking at, monitoring that weather, and, depending on that, we can pull them in here and get them really quickly," Northrop-White said. The priority will be to keep traffic moving from all the different venues in between the different cities. Dozens of extra tow trucks also will be on standby to respond to any crashes and keep the roads clear. | |
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The Pittsburgh Steelers have touched down!
The Steelers are already doing the fool. Several players got off the plane wearing Michigan State #76 jerseys, which was Flozell Adams' college number. They goin' in, huh?
Ft Worth represents the AFC while Dallas is the NFC. A lot of the buildings in each city are lit up in AFC-red and NFC-blue. I've never seen that at a Superbowl before. Cute idea.
DFW Bathed in Light for Super Bowl XLV Unless you've been housebound, you've probably seen some of the signage and such that has popped up at various locations in Fort Worth, Arlington and Dallas for Super Bowl XLV. In addition to that, several buildings in Dallas and Fort Worth now have been dressed up for the big event, including new nighttime lighting. In the video above, you can take an edited, 7-minute nighttime flight aboard Chopper 5 as where we check out the sights from above. First up, a look at downtown Dallas where many of the buildings have been bathed in blue light for the NFC Champion Green Bay Packers. Then we fly over to Arlington to take a look at Cowboys Stadium. Over in Fort Worth you'll see the Chesapeake Building, Sundance Square and the Tower with red and purple lights for the AFC champs. [Edited 1/31/11 10:46am] | |
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The pilots of the Steelers plane waved terrible towels while taxiing down the runway. 
Wind chills below zero by tomorrow night. What the fuck!?
The Prince concert has been relocated from the tent (dumb idea to begin with) to the Hotel Intercontinental. Everything happens for a reason cuz I'ma get mah hustle ON! | |
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This is why Miami gets the SuperBowl so often, Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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LOL! Do they have the forecast for game day yet? Prince, in you I found a kindred spirit...Rest In Paradise. | |
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