You Can Watch Game 6 Inside the American Airlines Center. Just Not Outside the AAC.

OKnOakCliff

Pathetic. Just pathetic Dallas. I've been up here in Vancouver, BC during the Stanley Cup playoffs. How come Vancouver can handle 100,000 Canucks fans downtown watching the game against Boston on giant TV screens set up for the public. The public that stretched for more five blocks. And Dallas tries to shoo its public away. If I didn't know better, I might've thought Jerry Jones was behind this. Maverick fans should boycott the victory parade that the City of Dallas will put on with all of the fan fare. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-...

Stacy

Dallas Pathetic??? So did they ever finish putting out the FIRES and cleaning up the broken glass from the RIOTING in Vancouver that you say the police can handle?? LOL...Dallas on the other hand only had 12 arrest and other than the train system completely breaking down was extremley peacefull....maybe u should stay in Vancouver... since your so confident in their policing skills and parade etiquette.

Ben

Victory Plaza is packed, Big screen TVs are on...

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LaceyB

I know a SWAT who looks like the T-1000 from "Terminator 2", and he's all but said he'll be there to keep the party respectful.

I can hear so much from my place that I felt like I had purchased nosebleeds--the amount of cheering. So I decided to take it down to Quarter for a Grilled Cheese and Blue Moon.

Exponential improvement. Sometimes, if you can't slice the silence with your T-1000 hands, go join 'em.

Nick R.

Looks like they did turn the TVs on after all. Seeing reports on Twitter of more than 2,000 peeps. Photos to come later. #gomavs

dallasmay

Who in there right minds would ever bring the Olympics here? We can’t even handle a Watch Party -not even the actual game. A Watch Party.As a Tax payer in Dallas that is helping pay for that plaza with TIF money and who knows what other public subsidies, I am very, very upset about this.

John_McKee

It's too late to be upset, we already gave them what they wanted with none of their strings attached.

That said, I would not be surprised if they have the balls to ask for their TIF to be renewed, then we should all tell them no way.

dallasmay

Well that maybe true, but the people that should really be upset -and have a real right to be- are the business owners that set up shop there. They stick in, despite being dead almost the entire year, them the one day that the businesses can make money, the plaza is closed.

I would close shop tommorow.

MattL1

Also, isn't this the type of event that the plaza was BUILT FOR? This makes zero sense.

Bing

no one in Dallas has ever told the truth about why they wanted to build anything

MattL1

No shit, "Bing." Whatever that means...

Oak Cliff Clavin

Get off my semi-publicly funded plaza!

MattL1

"Dallas: We think of the most logical thing to do, and then we do the opposite."

Ed D.

"Dallas: our no-fun is world class!"

dallas

City of Dallas: Killing fun wherever possible...

Nicoleyoung1976

thats dumb.....turn the plaza t.v.'s back on

Nachoman

So where is a good place to watch the game then?

G_David

Whatever you do, don't go to John McKee's house. He's gotta be tucked in by 10:00. After all, it's a work night.

Robert Wilonsky

You can always come to the Kessler. I'll be doing the onstage Q&A with Willis Alan Ramsey between sets (his first starts at 8:45), and I hear the TVs will be on in the bar and upstairs.

DuckDuckGoose

Big Bob, do you plan a post about the W.A.R. Q&A and show? He's great - and yeah, his "perfect" album is still on heavy rotation (vinyl and CD). His first album is worth a listen if only because of the backing musicians:

(to name a few)Leon RussellCarl RadleJim KeltnerRuss KunkelLeland Sklar

Robert Wilonsky

I may. Problem is, Jeff has the video, and it's hard to take notes whilst conducting a Q&A. I did ask him where the third record is ... because asking about the second is so cliched at this point.

John_McKee

A sports bar? Your house? A friends house?

Wylie H.

So stupid, so typically Dallas government.

G_David

Amazing how Dallas, or the AAC, or whoever made this stupid f'ing decision manages to screw things up EVERY TIME they get the chance. A big outdoor party, watching a potential championship-clinching NBA finals game? Who wants that? There are damn few reasons to go that little failure of a plaza, which is why it's generally filled with tumbleweeds and the sound of crickets chirping. Guess they didn't want to mess with the status quo. My initial reaction is "how unbelievable". Sadly, it's way too believable.

Robert Wilonsky

I asked DPD who made the call to switch off the big screens in the plaza. The response, sent a little while ago: "My understanding is that the decision was made by AAC officials."

I asked a Mavs spokesperson for triple confirmation about plaza-watching plans. The response, sent a little while ago: "We only have access to the big screen on the AAC. I have not been informed of any plans other than our official watch party being held inside American Airlines Center."

Ben

I could have sworn the City of Dallas used Dallas Taxpayer money to install that Jumbotron on the AAC. Remember how some people complained that it would directly compete with the "moving: Victory signboards? The Taxpayer HDTV needs to be turned on in Victory Plaza for the game. If not now, then when?

John_McKee

It's been a while and that brainspace has mostly gone to the current ways Dallas taxpayers are being screwed by corporate interests but I believe that Victory/AAC was just your standard corporate handout by government, tax abatement, public financing, TIF, infrastructure improvements, elimination of competition, etc. Obviously it was sold as something public for the city since we were trucking cash into the developers offices but it was never more than another handout to another developer to build private facilities that they can use as they see fit.

Yeah, tax payers probably helped finance that HDTV, but it was never out of any agreement that it was being built to directly serve our interests. Not that neighborhood disturbing public events for the for-profit sports teams of billionaires serves our interests either, but that is a completely different, much needed public debate that needs to happen as city after city gets fleeced by what has been shown time after time to be a bad deal, financing the facilities of for-profit professional sports teams owned by very wealthy people.

Ben

Since the Mavericks have not won a Finals before, what kind of Four Loko fueled civil disobedience will everyone be carrying out? Is shooting guns in the air still cool?

John_McKee

There are people that live in Victory or are staying at the W on business. Granted, not a lot, but enough that really wouldn't appreciate a large, loud crowd in the plaza on a work night.

whackedupside

Yep. God forbid anyone travel to, or live in, Dallas and see some sort of fun break out near downtown. Unless, of course, you're in some doucher club with bottle service. People partying in the streets for free is so Ft. Worth.

John_McKee

Who's saying don't have fun? I was just suggesting forming a large, very noisy crowd in between two apartment complexes, one condo building and a hotel popular with business travelers late at night before a workday is inconsiderate, there are still plent of places to "have fun".

Stacy

are you serious?!?! So are you saying that game 7 wasn't played here because our stadium is located by hotels/condos....or are you saying that no concerts or games should be played on worknights so they don't disturb the 400 ppl living and sleeping in the surrounding area.....That stadium was there b4 any of that stuff......shouldn't have built there or moved there if it was goin be a problem