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The pro sports team interested in playing at the Cotton Bowl appears to be a new women's soccer team.
Dallas is set to be home to a team in the forthcoming USL Super League, with a website already up and running. The web page doesn't make any mention of the Cotton Bowl.
But after Dallas Business Journal reported May 6 that an undisclosed team was seeking city support to play at the Fair Park venue, WFAA-TV tied the request to the USL team, based on a city memo.
Backers of the USL Super League team in Dallas have not explicitly confirmed that the team is looking to play at the Cotton Bowl. But the club, which is backed by the Neil family, has scheduled a "VIP brand reveal and press event" for the morning of May 9 at Klyde Warren Park in Dallas.
Fair Park First and Oak View Group, the operators of city-owned Fair Park, want to enter an agreement with a pro sports team to conduct "season league game play" at Cotton Bowl Stadium, according to an item on the agenda for the May 8 Dallas City Council meeting.
Council could authorizing the city's Department of Convention and Event Services to provide a year-to-year subsidy of up to $296,000 per year for two years, totaling $592,000. The subsidy would offset $18,500 of about $55,000 in expenses per event in the Cotton Bowl, according to city documents.
The USL Super League is a new pro league for women’s soccer that's set to kick off in August. Eight teams are initially lined up — in addition to DFW, they will be in Charlotte, North Carolina; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Lexington, Kentucky; Phoenix; Spokane, Washington; Tampa, Florida; and Washington, D.C. Joining the league at a later date could be teams in Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Florida; Madison, Wisconsin; and Oakland, California.
