I think the game has an enormous spectator appeal that dwarfs all American sports because it is so international.
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It gives us the ability to control all the revenue streams, ... It gives us the opportunity to sell a naming-rights sponsorship and signature sponsorships and control of our concessions, parking and scheduling, which is an important part of it. Instead of scrambling for secondary dates, we control the dates in the stadium.
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He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.
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Bob asked our permission and he certainly didn't have to do that. We didn't have any claim to it, we hadn't used it for many, many years. I still like it. Everyone in the state of Texas is a Texan, so it fits Houston, too.
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