Thursday was a national breakthrough for America’s fourth-largest city, which has been the home site for Super Bowls and Final Fours but spent years working toward official World Cup status, writes sports columnist Brian T. Smith.
Keeping an NFL team in Houston was once a serious problem. Constructing sports stadiums and arenas that were state of the art and nationally competitive was a real issue as a new millennium approached.
“It’s the 25-year anniversary of the Harris County Houston Sports Authority and we were birthed into existence to build these stadiums,” said Janis Burke, CEO of the HSA. “I was hired after the buildings were built to put Houston on the map as the biggest and best sports town in the world, and that’s what we’ve tried to do.”
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