Y'all wanna buy the Silverdome and create our own Thunderdome?

http://www.williamsauction.com/silverdome/?utm_source=NREIOnline&utm_medium=E-mail&utm_campaign=13682

no minimum bids, i feel like if we all pooled together we could at least come up with $100, right?

sure, what the hell

i expected a more enthusiastic response from everyone. guys it can't just be me and daria doing this.

I'm in for a tenner.

well i always thought "pontiac silverdome" was a super rad name so yeah i'll chip in.

totally!

what will we do with it?

btw i applied for some obama money from the government too

i dunno i figure we could make snax and stuff and maybe watch tv in there.

i'm in can we put the ilx favicon at midfield?

either that or rechecaldwell.gif

I once put in a $50 pledge to an internet site devoted to trying to form a collective bid to purchase the Montreal Expos, so this seems reasonable. Given home prices in the greater Detroit area I figure it wouldn't take very much to get you into that Top 5 final auction, and from there you figure it'd just be a matter of figuring how to break the various megachurches and such who would be our competition.

I will put in $10 if we can recreate WrestleMania III with various ILX personalities.

btw, this ended up selling for less than $600K. I think there are houses in the very back of my neighborhood which cost that much.

Sad I missed this. I would have kicked in $100 just so I could record some droning guitar reverb ambience.

you've got to be fucking kidding, less than $600K??????? Holy shit we really could have bought it

http://www.detnews.com/article/20091119/METRO/911190462/1361/Winning-Silverdome-bidder-still-hopes-to-finalize-deal

Apparently the sellers were less than pleased with the winning bid and a judge has temporarily blocked the sale.

http://i49.tinypic.com/1zhz6q.jpg

YES!

seriously that's about 150K more than our apartment cost

i can't buy a studio apartment in my neighborhood for that kind of money. i am kicking myself.

yeah, me either. not that i'd want one here. but if we bought the silverdome we could open the flying dawkins bar in it, right?

the entire silverdome could be the flying dawkins

ilxdome would've been best thing ever

next time we shouldn't sleep

we could've done this. opened up a UFL franchise (Pontiac HatCats or whatever) and watch the dough roll in.

I could've fulfilled my lifelong dream of living in my parents basement in Saginaw while owning a football team.

I imagine commuting to Pontiac everday and spending the 60 minutes in my car drawing up plays on the inside windshield, which is frosted over because there's no heat in my car.

<3 <3 <3

we really should've done this

maybe we could buy that pyramid in memphis i hear its just got a sporting goods store in it

"Son, do you have what it takes to be a HatCat?", I would say.

you need to draw up a hatcat formation, first off. miami dolphins will use it a season later no doubt.

right before training camp opens I will give my "You will bleed Teal and Electric Lime Green!" speech

^looool

hatcat formation would involve all kinds of crazy pre-snap movement and then after the snap the entire offense would just stand and glare.

are we playing cleveland? this could work

can i use that little building on the left side there, i was going to put in a greenhouse with a big vegetable garden, maybe raise some chickens. that way when the apocalypse comes - and it will! - i can just go live in the hatcatdome

i read it cost over a million bucks a month just to keep the place running and maintained, though.

haha i fuckin love this

yeah, upkeep is like 1.5 mil

tangentially related: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/opinion/08barlow.html?_r=2

this should've been us.

would start smoking a pipe to lend an air of "cerebral" to this

GLARECAT

"Listen, the MidWest Offense isn't about scoring"

http://www.whodeyrevolution.com/.a/6a00e550080ede8833011571a3cf0a970b-500pi

are we playing cleveland? this could work

man

"Listen, the MidWest Offense isn't about scoring"

wow, kinda lame there. sorry

yall wanna enter a contest to blow up texas stadium???

Irving officials make Kraft Macaroni & Cheese official sponsor of Texas Stadium demolition

Texas Stadium will come down this spring in a "Cheddar Explosion." That's the name that Kraft Foods has given to its promotional campaign for the implosion of the iconic structure.

[...]

Next week, Kraft will launch a national essay contest for children as part of its promotional campaign, said Maura Gast, executive director of the Irving Convention and Visitors Bureau. The winner will get to trigger the detonation at the public demolition.

"Kraft Macaroni & Cheese is thrilled to have received the Irving City Council's approval and we are looking forward to celebrating the historical significance and explosion of Texas Stadium. We will be sharing our full plans in the coming days," Joanne Freed of Hunter Public Relations said in a written statement on behalf of the company.

Dear Kraft,

I would like to blow up Texas Stadium, not for myself, not for Cowboys fans everywhere. I want to win the contest so I can give Terrell Owens the honor of doing it himself.

Love,
JF

I don't think it's possible to write a more American sentence than Texas Stadium will come down this spring in a "Cheddar Explosion."

I'm hoping this means they have to fill the thing up with cheddar cheese before they trigger it?

what a country !

is it gonna be weird when im hanging out around school playgrounds trying to get kids 2 enter this for me?

i have a plan, we can all collaborate on the blow-up-texas-stadium-in-a-cheddar-explosion essay here, and send under the name of HUNTER, AGE 3

essay in its entirety: UH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpmEaSi5YNw

whoa that rules

do you guys think peyton would be interested in buying a stadium with us now, he just wants to hang out and eat nachos

we should write to him, i'm sure he's down