Business View Magazine | November 2019

201 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 BUFFALO STADIUM the school’s current Athletic Director, Michael McBroom. “One of the unique aspects of the stadium was plugs underneath the bleachers, where people could plug in electric blankets, coffee makers, and things like that, to enjoy a football game in cold weather. We played there for about 60 years. We dropped football in 1990, as a cost-cutting move for the university, and brought it back a year later. But, during that time, the university entered into a 99-year lease with the local school district. We still owned it, but they had the management lease rights to it. They handled all the maintenance and we charged them a dollar a year.” “When we brought back football, we ended up sub-leasing back our own facility from the school district, which worked out fine for us, and for them; they had two high schools that played there, and we had our football team play there, as well,” McBroom continues. “But as time wore on, college football changed. There was an ‘arms race,’ so to speak, for facilities and we were in a stadium that hadn’t kept up to date with some of our peers. BUILDING A BETTER TOMORROW www.prowallinc.com 806.342.0814 2414 W Amarillo Blvd, Amarillo, TX 79106 Commercial Drywall & Paint Services