Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson moves a step closer to new NFL team dream

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After months of talking about Dallas becoming home to a second NFL franchise, Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson hosted the first committee meeting to turn talk into a hopeful reality.

The question is, does North Texas have what it takes to become home to a second NFL team? Mayor Johnson thinks so.

During the first committee meeting of professional sports recruitment and retention, Mayor Johnson said a second team aligns with the city's economic development strategy. There's still a lot of questions, like: Where would you build another stadium within city limits? Where could you offer parking? Or even, where would you accommodate more people?"If you design things, if you build new things, you have to be very careful," University of North Texas Director of Sports Management, Bob Heere said."Be like hey, how do we use this, how do we make substantial facility venue that beneficial for everyone.

 

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MayorAdler Ron_Nirenberg yall going to let this happen. Im sure yall cities been wanting a nfl team lol 😆 and could certainly support one

$1B to update signal lights, $1B to repair streets, $2B to fix sidewalks, $2B for new Convention Center, Police staffing shortage & so on, but let’s focus on more sports teams; 3rd generation Dallasite, but this is why I now live in Ft. Worth; the city is broken…getdallasfixed

Just hope they get a real GM and HC unlike the other one.

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