NOT what I expected to see in my e-mail inbox when I got home tonight.
Oklahoma City – A group of investors represented by Jerry Kobyluk, announced today that they plan to build a 100,000 seat Dome Stadium which will cost 1.2 Billion dollars, in one of three possible locations in the central Oklahoma vicinity.
The Dome Stadium will be the largest of it’s kind in North America. It will have a natural grass retractable field on a Hitachi track system that can be removed in forty-five minutes or replaced in the same amount of time.
“The retractable roof is three and a half acres in size,” Kobyluk said.
OK. A couple things about this story.
1. It was broken by something called the Alva Review/Courier– a publication not, to my knowledge, known for breaking many big stories around the state — and has no byline nor is it labeled as a wire story.
2. The dude supposedly planning this thing is some guy from Spencer who actually made TIMEasia.com when he lost to a dead woman while running for the Senate (scroll down to “verbatim”).
3. Randomly building the largest stadium in North America in Oklahoma City seems slightly ambitious and most likely insane, even with our new “Big League” status.
For these reasons, I am officially announcing that this story is obviously true and we should all believe every word of it. Also, I am officially announcing that I will be building Oklahoma’s tallest building. It will be located in Beggs, Oklahoma and I am calling it “Monument Oklahoma.” It will be 700 feet tall and you will only be able to get to the top by giant slingshot. Also, anyone who goes there will automatically receive free sno-cones for life. Any flavor.
That’s a very modern looking toilet seat. Is it one of the heated seat kind? Those are very nice. I would like a root beer snow-cone at the top of 70 story Death-Spire, please.
j.r./stacy swan’s blog talks about this - it appears he sent out a press release:
http://blogs.journalrecord.com/hottopic/2008/03/18/former-state-political-hopeful-plans-12b-domed-stadium-unicorn-rides/
If we can get the Saints to play there for a couple years, I’m sure the Seahawks will be begging to move in.
Sweet! We’re getting the Seahawks!
It’s cawwed “Wichardson hommme stdium” Wair wee say “let our famiwee bild yore famiwees beelion dawlar stadeeum
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MLS? We already have the Metropolitan Library System? Isn’t the Norrick Library enough for you people?
(although soccer would be nice…)
Imagine Bedlam with 100,000 people. We’d have to charge over $10/pop so the hicks couldn’t afford to get in and piss all over the place…
If and when? (Wishful thinking!) Will the seats and aisles be large enough for someone to pass by? We would need cup holders too. Bring on the Sonics!
sweeeeeetttttt!!!!!!!! i am thinking future home to the oklahoma wiffleball league, sure the retractable roof is a tad extreme, but you cant afford to have rainouts in the oklahoma wifffleball league.
My guess? Purcell.
Because there is no reason it should be there.
How about Dibble. Nothing would raise the profile of Oklahoma more than introducing the rest of the nation to Dibble.
They will probably go broke and turn it into a megachurch.
This is the kind of thing that happens when you watch Field of Dreams on acid.
This was a press release sent to all newspapers in Oklahoma from the OPA. We received it at the newspaper I work at and thought it sounded unbelievable and called the Oklahoma Press Association, and they confirmed that this Kobyluk guy had been in that morning and paid the money to have it released.